Rand Paul has spent a great deal of effort carving out justice reform as one of his major platforms, traveling to places like Detroit to tout a conservative vision for criminal justice.
Now that Hillary Clinton is jumping on his bandwagon, after years of pressing for her husband’s tough-on-crime measures, Paul is not happy.
“What have you done for criminal justice?” Paul demanded Monday during a stop at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center .
“Your husband passed all the laws that put a generation of black men in prison,” he said.
“She’s changing her tune now. But she’s changing her tune because people like me have been speaking out against these injustices.”
Paul is hardly the first person to point out Clinton’s sudden change of heart on this issue. Earlier this year she gave a lengthy address regarding justice reform, in which she called for an end to “mass incarceration” and urged sentence reform.
The media was quick to note that this rhetoric is a far cry from 90s-era Clinton, when she and Bill called for more prisons and declared that “We need more police, we need more and tougher prison sentences for repeat offenders.”
Paul also demanded to know what Clinton would do about poverty, citing his own reform plan for cities like Philadelphia. “I have a specific plan that would dramatically lower the taxes for people who live in zip codes of poverty and high unemployment. I would leave billions of dollars in Philadelphia over 10 years. What’s Hillary Clinton going to do?”
Watch the clip below, via NBC:
(h/t Mediaite)
