Because he’s okay with prosecuting white people who kill black children?
Platform and views[edit]
The editorial board of The Birmingham News has described Jones as a* “moderate Democrat."[25] Former Alabama Democratic Party chair Giles Perkins described Jones as "a moderate, middle-of-the-road guy.*”[26] Describing his own views, Jones said that “If you look at the positions I’ve got on health care, if you look at the positions I got on jobs, you should look at the support I have from the business community, I think I’m pretty mainstream."[27] Jones’ campaign has emphasized “kitchen table” issues such as healthcare and the economy.[28][29][30] He has called for bipartisan solutions to those issues,[31] and pledged to “find common ground” between both sides of the aisle.[32]
Jones has not called for tax increases; instead unlike some Democrats, he has called for reductions in corporate taxes "to try to get reinvestment back into this country".[33] Jones opposes the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the GOP’s tax plan, calling it fiscally irresponsible, and skewed to the wealthy while ignoring or hurting the middle class.[33] Jones supports increasing job training for workers and better education, along with an increase in the minimum wage for people in poverty. Jones also opposes allowing insurance companies to deny coverage for preexisting conditions and supports expanding Medicaid coverage, citing the problems with rural Alabama hospitals.[34] He has also been called an economic populist by Newsweek.[35] He has also come out in support of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.[34]* On health care, Jones opposes the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, but has called for changes to the U.S. health-care system, which he calls broken*.[36] He supports the re-authorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP),[36] and has repeatedly criticized his opponent Moore for his lack of a clear stance on the program.[36][37] Jones says he is open to the idea of a public option.[29]
Jones supports stronger protection of civil rights. He has cited the Charlottesville rally and the Charleston church massacre as examples of racial issues to be addressed.[34] Jones also supports the reversal of mandatory three-strikes laws for non-violent offenses to give judges flexibility in giving sentences.[34][29] In an interview with The Birmingham News he stated that he opposes additional restrictions on abortion (such as proposals to ban abortion after the 20th week of gestation), saying current laws on the issue are sufficient.[38] Jones has also supported same-sex marriage.
Jones has condemned corruption in Alabama in the wake of high-profile scandals saying, “the people of Alabama have been embarrassed by corruption and a string of ethics investigations and convictions of people they placed into positions of power and trust. They deserve better. We all deserve better.”[34]
Jones supports investment into renewable energy research and further wildlife conservation. He also supports the Paris Agreement and opposes the United States withdrawal ordered by President Trump; Jones says it would have significant negative effects on the environment.[34]
Jones is running on a platform of strengthening American national defense. In an interview with The Birmingham News, Jones stated that he was in favor of increasing defense spending, saying it would boost Alabama’s local economy, particularly in the areas around NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the U.S. Army’s Redstone Arsenal, and would protect America from foreign threats.[39]
Italics mark where I think Jones is Moderate.
Where do you think he is so Liberal?
No, I don’t assume that most voters apply much in the way of logic or rational though. I just think that unless Moore goes hog wild molesting Congressional interns or actually starts firing his curiously tiny revolver in Senate chambers, it isn’t going to matter much to voters in other states who were already predisposed to vote Republican, and it remains to be seen how much swing voters will come out in contested races specifically because of Moore. I think all the people who were already going to be outraged about that kind of misconduct were already outraged by previously outrageous things done by the current GOP majority, and the presumptive election of Moore isn’t much more than another irritant in another already pestilential political environment.
Stranger
I’m pretty sure it’s the Dakotas that are divided into a North and a South. Colorado is just one big state.
Thanks, that was very helpful. I guess my opinion came mostly from here (including the following few posts) and a few headlines I’ve seen here or there. Somewhere I read something about him downplaying his liberal views, but I can’t find the article now.
An eyewitness account of the Moore rally last night.
Wanna name two who are comparable to Trump and Moore in terms of (a) being morally and ethically unfit for office, and (b) being laughably incompetent, but (c) who were elected anyway after all these facts were known?
Wanna venture a guess as to why Franken is being asked to step down while a child molester is possibly about to be elected to a Senate seat and a sexual predator occupies the Oval Office?
New headline for your link:
Update: State Supreme Court stays order directing Alabama not to destroy voting records
I don’t understand why they would want to allow them to destroy the images. What does it harm to keep them for verification if needed?
Ninja’d by Rick. Dammit (remember to read whole thread before posting)
My God, Bannon looks even more unwashed than when he was Trump’s underling at the WH. He always gives off the impression that you wouldn’t want to be within two blocks downwind of him. At least the real Nazis looked like they bathed.
William Jefferson (not Clinton, I’m talking about the freezer-bribe guy) comes to mind readily, but I imagine you’ll move the goalposts again.
He said two. You don’t get points for kicking the field goal halfway there.
Shooting fish in a barrel. Marion Barry, anyone?
How far are you willing to go with the idea that the willingness to tow the party line on issues outweighs the qualities and qualifications of the individual in office? If a Senate candidate has an IQ of 60 and is incapable of reading, much less analyzing bills but would vote however the Alabama GOP dictates on abortion, gay marriage, etc., is that all that matters? In a primary race, would he or she be the better choice over a candidate who’s willing to compromise with Dems to get legislation passed or who is moderate on some issues or who sometimes supports what’s clearly best for the national interest long-term over what’s best for the majority of Alabamans in the short term?
As Madison wrote in Federalist #57, “The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.”
That distant whirring sound you hear is Madison and the rest of the Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.
See? Moving the goalposts already!
Fuck Roy Moore.
With a burning crucifix and a capsaicin enema.
Stranger
Jefferson was defeated in the general election on December 6, 2008 in a major upset by Republican nominee Cao
I know, but he was re-elected in 2006, months after stories like this were all over the news:
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The problem with Alabama Republicans is the same as the problem with any other Republicans:
They’re REPUBLICANS.
Well, that was not the case until recently, now that the RNC and Trump did go all the way to support Moore, they are demonstrating that they are indeed listening to the dark angels of their nature.