New York Governor George Pataki has decided not to pardon or grant clemency to any prisoners this year.
Gov. George Pataki, leaving office next month and eyeing a run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, won’t be granting clemency to any prisoners this year.
It marks the third time in Pataki’s 12-year tenure that he has issued no clemencies during the holiday season. None was granted in 1998 or 2004.
It looks like Pataki is trying to come across as a law and order Republican. He doesn’t want to be seen as being soft on crime by granting clemency to prisoners. He’s only “issued 32 clemencies or pardons” in twelve years as governor, a paltry sum. Unless any of those thirty-two turned out to be brutal recidivists, Pataki is probably safe from criticism hardline law and order Republicans on his actions as governor vis a vis pardons and clemency.
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Gosh, I wish Mike “I Pardoned 700 Rapists and Murders” Huckabee had thought of this before. Oops.
Left by Steve
January 1, 2007 at 1:55am