Toni Preckwinkle Reagan Slam: Cook County Board President Retracts 'Hell' Remark

[Comet]

Looks like Salty has a new favorite person.

This whole, "Let's see who can make the most shocking and extreme comment" trend needs to stop. Do these people realize how idiotic they come across?

The chief executive of the second-most populous county in the nation quickly backpedaled Tuesday after making a comment about former President Ronald Reagan she later called "inflammatory."

During a conference led by former Republican Gov. Jim Edgar in downstate Champaign, Ill., Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle stated that Reagan deserves "a special place in hell" for his drug policy and the "war on drugs" that followed in its wake, the Chicago Tribune reports.

The comment reportedly was met with the audible gasp of many audience members and Preckwinkle later Tuesday admitted that she regretted making the remark about the deceased Illinois-native former president and conservative icon.

Preckwinkle clarified that she remains critical of the ramped-up enforcement of drug laws that occurred during the Reagan administration.

"If I had it to do over again, I certainly wouldn't say anything quite so inflammatory. But my position basically remains the same," she told the Tribune.

"[U]sually I’m more careful about my language," Preckwinkle explained to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Tuesday did not mark the first time that Preckwinkle has lashed out against U.S. drug policy. During a rally last year, she said the United States' war on drugs "has failed" in its aim to stymy drug use and has, instead, resulted in mass incarceration.

The war on drugs comes, Preckwinkle continued last June, "at a tremendous social and economic cost to all of us. The cost is too great to continue fighting this war on drugs with so little success."

Later that month, Cook County's chief executive urged Chicago police officers to stop making low-level drug possession arrests, a cause that Mayor Rahm Emanuel took up when he introduced a marijuana ticketing ordinance earlier this year.

The mayor's ordinance called for the city's police force to have the option to ticket those caught with as much as 15 grams of marijuana, rather than arresting them -- unless they are caught in public or on schools grounds or in a public park.

The ordinance was approved by the City Council in a 43-3 vote in June and went into effect earlier this month.

Preckwinkle previously called the ordinance "a step in the right direction" that would "help reduce the jail population, save money for taxpayers and eliminate criminal justice disparities."

Toni Preckwinkle Reagan Slam: Cook County Board President Retracts 'Hell' Remark

[saltwn]

Ramped up drug policy my azz. We got more drugs into this country under Reagan and George Sr than we ever had before. At the same time they created this fake war on drugs to spread around a little cash.
Kennedy gave a scathing opinion of nominating a "drug czar" from the senate floor. The first drug czar presided over the tripling of drugs in Florida during his term as governor.
They get at least two big sources of income. One the drug trade obviously. The second from the sh*t heads who get caught smoking a joint or selling cocaine. It's a circle and it's mafia imho.
yeah war on drugs my ...I already said that so ...
And special place in hell for Reagan? That is beside Polpot and Hitler? That's for ruining the economy and usurping the morals of my country.

[Comet]

Originally Posted by saltwn

Ramped up drug policy my azz.

Perhaps you and Preckwinkle should get together and figure out why Reagan should be burning in hell (besides the fact he was a Republican) because your reasonings contradict each other.

I could never fathom wishing an individual to burn in hell because they are of a different political party.

Some people need to take a step back, go out for some fresh air and put politics out of their lives for a week or two. Makes some people highly irrational.

[saltwn]

Originally Posted by Comet

Perhaps you and Preckwinkle should get together and figure out why Reagan should be burning in hell (besides the fact he was a Republican) because your reasonings contradict each other.

I could never fathom wishing an individual to burn in hell because they are of a different political party.

Some people need to take a step back, go out for some fresh air and put politics out of their lives for a week or two. Makes some people highly irrational.

I don't give a sh*t why she thinks he's in hell. I think he is in hell because of my stated reasons. That's not a wish, it's a belief that God don't like ugly.

[saltwn]

Originally Posted by saltwn

I don't give a sh*t why she thinks he's in hell. I think he is in hell because of my stated reasons. That's not a wish, it's a belief that God don't like ugly.

Obviously since I voted for the bass turd I don't hate him because he is a Republican. He was the worst president in my lifetime hands down.