Ex-Rep. Mondaire Jones — now trying to unseat Rep. Mike Lawler in the Hudson Valley’s 17th District — once backed letting felons vote from prison.
Yes, you read that right: Jones wanted murderers and rapists helping decide who’s president while they’re locked up.
And his reasoning is damning for a lot more Democrats than just Mondaire.
In his 2021 push for the law, Jones compared the prohibitions on incarcerated felons voting to a “form of slavery.”
Nope: It’s not slavery or white supremacy or any other DEI buzzword.
It’s the loss of a basic right of citizens, just as prison entails the loss of many rights and freedoms.
And it is, and is intended as, a punishment for people who have violated the social contract in the deepest and most basic way: by breaking the law.
In so doing, they’ve proven that they place no value on the rights of others, nor those their American citizenship confers on them.
The law Jones backed — along with ultra-leftist Rep. Cori Bush, just rejected by her district’s Democrats — suffered a bipartisan thrashing in the House.
And now his support for this obscene idea is coming back to haunt him.
After all, the poisonous doctrines adopted by the left after the race riots in the summer of 2020 sent violent crime skyward and have since become politically toxic. (Bush was unseated by a prosecutor.)
But it’s not just that the idea is pro-crime: It aligns with the fundamental contempt for citizenship that animates progressive policy on so many issues.
Most notably, perhaps, on the issue of illegal immigration — by opening the floodgates, progs want to make the idea of citizenship itself totally meaningless. (And the open border is also driving up crime).
So take your pick between Lawler and Jones in November, New York.
But remember that only the leftist thinks voting is about as valuable as a party favor.
