Kirsten Gillibrand is about to have a bad week

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174. I am seeing some of the same tactics used against KG that were used against HRC.

For example, Hillary was blamed for 90s era Three Strikes. The claim, accepted by many liberals, was that HRC was a key driver behind the legislation. I lived through the 90s, Black public officials were calling for attention to their communities to combat the crack cocaine epidemic. Hillary made statements, but she did not write one words of legislation, Bernie Sanders was a congressman at the time, voted to approve legislation and got a total pass from those that were attacking Hillary.

I have seen post attacking KG for being an attorney fighting to pushback anti smoking efforts. What the people don't say is that she was in her twenties or early thirties and was at best a junior staffer - she did what she was told, her option was to quit - there were not the landing places that exist today if she had quit on principle - look at what happened to the guy who presented data on cigarette companies purposely modulating nicotine in cigarette, he was virtually destroyed, even with a national spotlight. To expect a young upstate NY State attorney to buck her law firm and big tobacco during the early nineties is wrong thinking and unfair.