Republican Rep. Byron Donalds scored a major legislative victory this week against “soft-on-crime policies of far-left” politicians and for stricter punishments targeting Washington, D.C.’s young adult offenders.
The House passed Donalds’ “D.C. CRIMES Act” by a 240-179 vote on Tuesday. But the Florida congressman emphatically told NOTUS that his punitive approach toward teenagers committing crimes in D.C. is completely unrelated to his own youthful indiscretions, which include an arrest at 18 for marijuana distribution and a felony theft conviction at age 20.
“When I made my mistakes, there was no leniency for youthful offenders,” Donalds said in an interview.