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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(116,480 posts) Tue Dec 28, 2021, 01:19 PM Dec 2021

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California governor mulls RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan parole

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's governor must soon decide whether to free one of America's most notorious assassins, a decision he has said evokes one of the darkest periods in the nation's history.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has until sometime next month to allow or block the parole recommendation for Robert F. Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan.

The recommendation by a two-person panel of parole commissioners in August split the iconic Kennedy family more than a half-century after the 1968 slaying of the U.S. senator from New York moments after he claimed victory in California’s pivotal Democratic presidential primary.

More than that, it tore open decades-old wounds lingering from the murders of RFK and his brother, President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/california-governor-mulls-rfk-assassin-sirhan-sirhan-parole/ar-AASd97C

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California governor mulls RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan parole (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2021 OP

Block! keithbvadu2 Dec 2021 #1

NO. Let him spend the rest of his miserable life behind bars. LoisB Dec 2021 #2

I hope Newsom blocks this parole, and if he doesn't, if another Democrat challenges him for JohnSJ Dec 2021 #3

Hey, Governor Newsom! PJMcK Dec 2021 #4

Absolutely not! This was a pivotal moment in history... VarryOn Dec 2021 #5

Why? TheRealNorth Dec 2021 #6

Nope nope nope nope nope Zorro Dec 2021 #7

keithbvadu2

(40,500 posts)

1. Block!

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Dec 28, 2021, 01:21 PM

Dec 2021

LoisB

(9,023 posts)

2. NO. Let him spend the rest of his miserable life behind bars.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Dec 28, 2021, 01:24 PM

Dec 2021

JohnSJ

(96,810 posts)

3. I hope Newsom blocks this parole, and if he doesn't, if another Democrat challenges him for

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Dec 28, 2021, 01:30 PM

Dec 2021

Governor should he decide to run, I will be looking very closely at supporting that Democratic challenger

PJMcK

(23,008 posts)

4. Hey, Governor Newsom!

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Dec 28, 2021, 01:31 PM

Dec 2021

If you parole Sirhan, your career will be over.

Is that your plan? If so, please proceed, Governor.

Please think carefully about this decision.

VarryOn

(2,343 posts)

5. Absolutely not! This was a pivotal moment in history...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Dec 28, 2021, 01:39 PM

Dec 2021

Only God knows where things would be today had RFK gone on to live. I have to believe things would have turned out better than where we are today.

TheRealNorth

(9,629 posts)

6. Why?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Dec 28, 2021, 01:45 PM

Dec 2021

So he can go to CPAC with Kyle Rittenhouse and be celebrated for killing Democrats?

Zorro

(16,470 posts)

7. Nope nope nope nope nope

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Dec 28, 2021, 02:41 PM

Dec 2021

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