Washington, D.C. – When Senate hopeful Mandela Barnes was a WI State Legislator in 2016, he introduced legislation to eliminate “monetary bail as a condition of release for a defendant charged with” a crime, no matter the severity of the crime. In other words, this is a proposal to eliminate prosecutors’ ability to keep dangerous people in custody.
Over the weekend, it was confirmed that Barnes “remains firmly in support of his proposed legislation.”
If the Barnes bill passed in 2016, Darrell Brooks, along with many other criminals, would have been freely walking the streets of Wisconsin for the past 6 years. Is that what Wisconsin families want?
Statement from NRSC Spokeswoman Lizzie Litzow: “Mandela Barnes was weak on crime in 2016, is weak on crime today and will continue to be weak on crime. To allow criminals to freely walk the streets before their trials and bar courts from considering the severity of a defendant’s crime is simply reckless. Barnes needs to start putting Wisconsinites’ safety before his own radical political agenda, but he won’t. Wisconsin families deserve better.”
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