District prosecutor Larry Krasner, in the second public debate on the race for the District Prosecutor, he still tried to paint his democratic pretender as secret conservatives – binding the former judge Patrick Dugan with local Republicans and the former head of the city police, and at some point almost calling him a racist.
In turn, Dugan called Krasner a liar and a bang, who quickly resorts to the name of the name every time someone disagrees with him. Krasner, said, is gentle in the face of crime, and this is why philadelphians suffer.
The arguments and unpleasant mentioned on Thursday evening at the First Center City Forum were reflected in the people mentioned last week during the campaign before the primary elections on May 20.
Krasner, a progressive city prosecutor who is looking for the third term, tried to convince the audience that Philadelphias are “safer and free” than eight years ago-the number of people in the city prison is falling, and after a record color of shootings during Krasner’s shooting in the first term of Krasner.
Dugan, who for almost two decades served as a judge of the City Court in Philadelphia, focused on Krasner’s leadership, pointing to the low retention index of novel prosecutors during his first term, and stating that all limitation of the crime that the city experiences is now thanks to the novel mayor and police committee, not the policy of the Krasner. He worked to introduce himself as a headquarters who believes in the second chance, but who would decide the cases regarding the possession of weapons and retail theft, areas where Krasner’s office fought.
Here are the most significant events of the evening:
Krasner binds Dugan with republicans
At last week, Krasner asked Dugan if he supported President Donald Trump.
“Are you kidding?” Dugan replied. “I categorically condemn Donald Trump and his policy. The guy is a nut. I mean, come on.”
Krasner stayed on Thursday. He said that Dugan was once seen “imprisoned by the bears of John Mcnesby, when he was the head of Fop and defended the visible wearing of Nazi tattoos.”
“Oh, Larry,” said Dugan. “You are such a liar. Don’t tell me that.”
The Dugan campaign said that he never hugged Mcnesby.
The candidates were asked what actions they would take “to protect the city and its inhabitants against possible illegal activities of the federal government.” Dugan said he wasn’t sure what, realistically, local officials could do outside public demonstrations.
Krasner said he pointed out that Dugan did not want to intervene, and pointed to how conservative groups of the city signaled support for the former judge in recent weeks.
“It seems that my opponent receives Loving words on social media from the Republican Party in Philadelphia. What do you think what it means in the context: “I don’t know what we are going to do”?
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“Don’t call me a racist”
Once upon a time Krasner stopped calling a racist.
Dugan said he saw first hand how many young prosecutors in the Krasner office were inexperienced and fought in court, and said that Krasner did not train them. He said that many lawyers Krasner recruited from outside the state and Ivy League Law Schools, so Dugan said that he would focus on local recruitment to attract lawyers who would invest in Philadelphia for years.
Krasner said that he worked on the diversification of his employees and employing people from all states and origin, lawyers who are now “cancerous by a judge who sits in court of offenses.”
“The judge wants us to only recruit in Philadelphia. … Which HBCU legal schools are in Philadelphia or a nearby judge? Who is it? Because there are six.
Dugan moaned and interjected.
“Don’t call me a racist, Lar! Don’t call me a racist! Don’t twist my words. Don’t dare!”
Dugan turned to this later and defended himself and his record, pointing to his mixed family of many races.
“Do you like to call people. Who else does it? In a different world, if we were sitting here on the couch elsewhere, there could be another problem to call me such a racist,” said Krasner.
Unpaid property taxes of Krasner
Dugan’s campaign has returned to a long -term problem for the Krasner: overdue tax accounts on the property in the city building, whose Krasner owns the part.
For years, the District Prosecutor had 40% of shares in the Holding group, called Tiger Building LP, which owns Brownstone at 1221-23 Locust St. and is owed by taxes in the amount of over USD 139,000 in a building, which is estimated at the value of USD 3.46 million.
This amount covers over USD 48,000 taxes due this year, which are not due by the end of this month. Municipal documents show that the group has been periodically delayed since at least 2014 and has stood in the face of numerous pledge and judgments submitted by the city, the school district and the Center City district over the past 10 years.
This problem did not appear during the forum, but Dugan’s campaign distributed leaflets to participants called the Krasner “a millionaire who does not pay taxes.”
As a district prosecutor, Krasner earns a basic salary in the amount of USD 182,184 per year, in accordance with city wage records.
Anthony Campisi, spokesman for Krasner’s campaign, said that the District Prosecutor is one of many people invested in the property. He and other owners have been “payment plans to deal with his overdue tax liability for several years, and the corporation regularly pays this commitment.”
He fights for the future
In many respects, Dugan and Krasner share many of the same opinions about justice in criminal matters. They both believe in the extension of the redirect programs, dealing with reform of the deposit and studying dubious senior beliefs.
At the end of the night, Krasner tried to soften his tone, supplementing the judge’s work in launching a court for veterans and saying that for years he agreed with many Dugan rulings in matters.
Despite this, he said, Philadelphia “cannot afford another prokrabel, which is powered by ambition, which is ready to do more than they should and cross lines to win cases.”
Dugan did not accept half of the compliment. He said that he believed on dates for district prosecutors, and the dwarf time is over.
“I perform regenerative justice. I do rehabilitation justice. But people must be responsible. We can do both at the same time,” he said.
The third forum run by the National Coalition of 100 Black Women is scheduled for Sunday at 13:30 at the Baptist church of Mount Carmel in West Philadelphia.
