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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Time for a game! Guess who's campaign website has the following quote:

"I firmly believe that we need to try to keep children out of the justice system.  Whenever possible, that means not charging them in the first place and not trying them as adults."[/quote]

I’ll take Josh Katcher for $200, Ken.

It appears he thinks the ability to talk out of both sides of his mouth is the key skill of a CA.  [/quote]

You're correct! https://www.joshforarlington.com/issues

So I guess Josh wouldn't have charged the person who killed the kid. But according to the ad, at least maybe in the process of deciding not to charge, he would have done a better job of listening, and that's apparently what matters most.[/quote]

I know this is confusing for some but there is a lot of stuff prosecutors can do in between the slap in the wrist that this spoilt brat of a kid got and being charged as an adult. Also what many people don’t seem to understand is that being charged as an adult doesn’t necessarily equal jail time. It could for example mean suspending his license for a couple of years and making reinstatement contingent on going through substance abuse treatment. It means actual consequences for your actions.

This of course is all due to terrible parenting. What type of parent gives their child a car if their child was caught driving drunk multiple times? What type of parents lets their child who has a drinking problem drive a car? [/quote]

I’m sure there was plenty of pain and second-guessing to go around and that continues to this day.  I think your post is unnecessary and venal. Should we also be asking what type of parent lets their high school kid stay out to midnight, or doesn’t teach them not to make U-turns on a busy road?  Or spends months traveling with their son’s former teammates during a sports season getting nothing but love and support from others and yet still keeps looking to their friends and proxies to ascribe blame to others, including not only the reckless driver but also others in the judicial system?

I wish this thread were locked but I guess Josh Katcher is still hoping to get some mileage out of this before the primary.  [/quote]

Umm staying out till midnight and making uturns on a busy road are very different than a kid who has been caught driving drunk multiple times. It’s not he was caught driving drunk once. It’s multiple times. Why on earth were they letting him drive? He’s a danger to himself and to everyone around him. [/quote]

You can keep repeating this ad nauseum and it’s not going to bring the Meade kid back, prevent others from questioning the parenting of both kids, or make the Katcher campaign look any less craven and opportunistic now.

Again, it would be better if the thread were locked.  [/quote]

Dunno who you think I am but I haven’t commented much on this thread. I don’t know the Meade family or Katcher and only learned about this story through a neighbor. I came to this forum to see if anyone knew about the three candidates running for Sheriff and then found this thread. I’m just shocked about the lack of sympathy for a mom who lost her child. I don’t understand how someone can be driving drunk multiple times and have no consequences. Seems like he comes from a very privileged family with a lot of connections.[/quote]

It seems like your knowledge is admittedly sufficiently limited that you’d really have no idea what “consequences” the other kid driver may have incurred at different times in the past or most recently.

There was and remains an enormous amount of sympathy for the Meade family, but when they decided to politicize matters and also implicitly encouraged others to continue to harass the other teen driver and his family (and let’s be honest, some of these posts have come dangerously close to inciting physical violence against the family), they not surprisingly began to dissipate that support.

This primary can’t come soon enough. Josh Katcher should be ashamed for trying to capitalize on this tragedy for his own political purposes.[/quote]

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