The liberal Hollywood élite is at it once again – calling on their buddy Barack Obama in Washington to further their partisan agenda.
This time, the noteworthy cause they’re tackling is the nation’s drug and prison policies.
Anyone who is anyone in Hollywood has pretty much signed the open letter to the president, including Nicki Minaj, Cameron Diaz, P. Diddy, Lil Wayne, and all three of the Kardashian sisters and a slew of other politicians, civil rights leaders, clergy members, businessmen and athletes.
In their letter, they urge the commander-in-chief to address the “skyrocketing prison population” and enact “more innovative criminal justice reform” that offers “more alternatives to incarceration.” They commend the president for his “hard work and leadership on issues affecting the unrepresented classes of people in our nation” and ask him “to further the work you have done around revising our national policies on the criminal justice system and continue moving from a suppression-based model to one that focuses on intervention and rehabilitation,” noting that keeping criminals locked up hurts the children the most who are left “to fend for themselves.”
“Your struggles as the child of a single mother allow you to identify with millions of children who long to be with their parents,” the letter reads.
It also calls for “a panel to review requests for clemency that come to the Office of the Pardon Attorney” and urges Obama to support the Youth PROMISE Act, a House bill that would funnel tax dollars to youth intervention programs.
They’re not alone in this cause. Last month, “Friends” star Matthew Perry lobbied before Congress to reform the nation’s drug courts. He was not a signatory on this open letter, however.
If Obama agrees to the letter’s requests, it looks like these Hollywood A-listers will have one more reason to visit the White House.”We request the opportunity to meet with you to discuss these ideas further and empower our coalition,” the letter says.
You can find the full list of those who signed their John Hancock to the letter here.
