{"id":1420,"date":"2015-04-29T15:37:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T15:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2016-07-03T20:11:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T20:11:30","slug":"so-paula-do-you-think-i-should-pardon-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1420","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;So, Paula, do YOU think I should pardon them?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1421\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150429McCrory.jpg\" alt=\"150429McCrory\" width=\"260\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150429McCrory.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150429McCrory-179x300.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>April 29, 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cWednesday marks the 230th day that Governor Pat McCrory has refused to grant a pardon of innocence to Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, the two Robeson County men who both spent 31 years in prison for a rape and murder they did not commit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThe two men, both mentally disabled and struggling to pay their bills, need the pardon from McCrory to be eligible for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/news-columns-blogs\/investigations-blog\/article10246568.html\" target=\"_blank\">financial compensation<\/a>\u00a0from the state for the years they were wrongly incarcerated. McCrory received the petition September 11 of last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cMcCrory has been busy of course, most recently taking an unannounced trip to Los Angeles where he appeared on a panel at conference (and hobnobbed) with Paula Abdul and other celebrities at an event called the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/fashion\/alltherage\/la-ar-gourmet-games-20150427-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Global Gourmet Games<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cMeanwhile Henry McCollum and Leon Brown are still waiting for justice from McCrory and still struggling to pay their water bill&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style360\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/pulse.ncpolicywatch.org\/category\/justice-denied-for-mccollum-and-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Day 230<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0of Gov. McCrory denying justice to Henry McCollum and Leon Brown\u201d\u00a0by Chris Fitzsimon at the Progressive Pulse (April 19)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">It\u2019s not just Junior Chandler and the Edenton Seven who suffer from the indifference of elected officials who hold the power to at last do right by them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">To withhold compensation from the hapless McCollum and Brown seems especially heartless. If McCrory has an explanation for his nearly eight months of foot-dragging, he\u2019s not revealing it \u2013 unless maybe he spilled to his tablemates at the Global Gourmet Games&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 29, 2015 \u201cWednesday marks the 230th day that Governor Pat McCrory has refused to grant a pardon of innocence to Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, the two Robeson County men who both spent 31 years in prison for a rape and murder they did not commit. \u201cThe two men, both mentally disabled and struggling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}