Val Demings’ Orlando police career
could hurt — or help — her chances
to become Joe Biden’s running mate
Orlando Sentinel [FL],
by
Steven Lemongello
&
Jeff Weiner
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
6/6/2020 8:12:28 AM
Val Demings’ meteoric rise from the Orlando Police Department to the halls of Congress and a starring role in the impeachment of President Donald Trump has reportedly landed her on the shortlist of contenders to join former Vice President Joe Biden atop the Democratic ticket this fall. But Demings’ background as a former police chief at a department that has been accused of using force excessively, including during her tenure, could prove a challenge on the national stage, particularly when people across the country are protesting in the streets against police brutality. To national Democrats, Demings is a rising star
Reply 1 - Posted by:
LadyVet 6/6/2020 8:17:19 AM (No. 434417)
Biden could always choose the lovely Mayor Lightwood of Chicago. He could cover a lot of constituancy groups. And she has that charming vocabulary that Biden favors.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MMC 6/6/2020 8:28:25 AM (No. 434432)
“Excessive force” well, she will have to explain that to the whole... what did she do to offending officers? Or did she encourage force?
To what group did she favor? How was she as a leader?
I don’t see a warm fuzzy- but media make over will do wonders for her ...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/6/2020 8:58:38 AM (No. 434476)
Joe Biden is never coming out of his basement, so why would anybody want to be his running mate? Think about it. Would anyone want to spend the day around Joe Biden?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/6/2020 9:06:53 AM (No. 434495)
Joseph Biden will not pick the Democrat Vice-Presidential candidate, Barack Obama and the Democrat Super Delegates will do that, with the selected person, obviously a very liberal Black female, will be someone, while guiding the elderly Biden until he resigns, will be close politically to Obama. Who Obama knows will reinstate his failed political agenda that was ravaged by President Trump and his successful “Put America First” political agenda.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 6/6/2020 9:11:24 AM (No. 434505)
Who would want to join the No Malarkey ticket with the creep Joe Biden. Biden asks one question, "does she have good hair" like Kamala Mattress Back Harris?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/6/2020 9:50:24 AM (No. 434576)
She is seriously underqualified. Running a police department is a far cry from being second in line to run our wonderful country. She is a racialist. She is a very nasty person.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
lakerman1 6/6/2020 9:54:20 AM (No. 434585)
I'm oK with someone, black white, or other, advancing through the police ranks into elective office.
I am immediately skeptical of a woman who does it.
Some women have been good at playing the affirmative action game for rapid advancement, and are not too competent.
two examples come to mind.
The obese woman who was Assistant Secretary of State, responsible for embassy security at the time of Benghazi.
she was clueless in her testimony. and she had played the affirmative action game out of a short tour as a police officer in Oregon.
The former head of the Secret Service, during the muddled years of the Barack Obola presidency. she was exquisitely incompetent, and Barack had to fire her. She had done the police officer affirmative action game as well.
Deming strikes me as nasty. But at least she could meet weight requirements, unlike Stacey Abrams.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
hershey 6/6/2020 10:25:29 AM (No. 434635)
Who? I ask again WHO???? Never heard of her...and it doesn't matter who ol' gropin Joe picks, they will NEVER make it to the white house...we conservatives, again, like before, will crawl across broken glass to vote for Trump..he has so far delivered on his campaign promises which no one before has, and I truly believe the Lord sent him to us in our hour of need...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/6/2020 1:03:10 PM (No. 434930)
On the other hand, practically NOTHING could help Biden's chances except Mooch.
Still a toss up but I bet she doesn't want to get within a mile of the idiot, especially as second fiddle.
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That AA queen is a nasty piece of work. She and her husband care about no one who isn't black. That incident with her gun stolen- she had parked her car in front of their million dollar home in a gated community when the gun was stolen. Her response ? It must have been a relative visiting. She should have been fired.
Worse yet. Nobody ran against her in the last election.
When she spoke at the impeachment trial, it was a campaign speech about a little black girl and rising star.
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What qualifies her to be a heartbeat away from the presidency - besides being a 'rising star'?