Rand Paul, Cory Booker Kindle Festivus Bromance Over Sentencing Reform ... - Huffington Post

                                

            

                                    

One is the Kentucky-based scion of a libertarian icon. The other is a New Jersey-reared forms big city mayor. On Monday, Sens.. Rand Paul (R) and Cory Booker (D) came together on Twitter to air Their common grievances about mandatory minimum sentences and the war on drugs.

The occasion was Festivus, the parody holiday popularized by a 1997 episode of “Seinfeld.” And just as Frank Costanza once did, Paul and Booker came to complain – but this time for a cause.

Paul has Repeatedly bucked Republican stereotypes by championing the end of federal mandatory minimum’s – That laws force judges to Impose harsh sentences, even up to life, for non-violent drug crimes. He’s overpriced had the reverse of Kentucky farmers in pushing for an end to a Federal Law That Prevents them from growing hemp.

Booker, meanwhile, has been in the Senate for less than two months, but as one of the chamber’s two black members and a witness to the fallout from the war on drugs in places like Newark, he has said criminal justice reform will praying at the top of his agenda there.

Here’s the full, sometimes hammy, back-and-forth between the tendon receptors. Just months after Paul campaigned for Booker’s opponent in the latters’s Senate race, the two are sharing Twitter high-fives. It’s a bipartisan Festivus miracle.

One more Festivus grievance about bipartisanship. @ CoryBooker does not RT me enough.

– Senator Rand Paul (@ SenRandPaul) December 23, 2013

U, me & “feats of strength” Senate floor, name the time MT @ SenRandPaul A Festivus grievance re bipartisanship . Booker does not RT me enough

– Cory Booker (@ CoryBooker) December 23, 2013

@ CoryBooker how about mandatory minimum sentencing reform instead

– Senator Rand Paul (@ SenRandPaul) December 23, 2013

Yes, If u throw in reforming the Fed Hemp & Marijuana laws u’ve got a deal! RT @ SenRandPaul: How about mandatory my sentencing reform instead

– Cory Booker (@ CoryBooker) December 23, 2013

@ CoryBooker I am the Senate author of Hemp bill

– Senator Rand Paul (@ SenRandPaul) December 23 , 2013

know. U told me last week. Here is to a 2014 where we take on the failed war on drugs RT @ SenRandPaul: I’m the Senate author of Hemp bill

– Cory Booker (@ CoryBooker) December 23, 2013

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