My good friend, Greg Williams, and I put this together, going out to more than 400 papers today: Sent out again on 2/24 Op Ed Submission – Protect Your Right to Vote – 2/20/21 Every American, of whatever political persuasion, should be appalled by the brazen efforts of conservatives to curb, restrict, or block their right to vote! Since the Florida 2000 presidential election debacle, the proposed 2019 “For the People Act” (HR 1) is the...
Open Letter to our Attorney General – Legalize All Drugs – PUBLISHED on 2-9-21 AND on 2-16-21! Oregon just did.
This Letter to the Editor was PUBLISHED today, 2/9/21 on page A 6 of our state’s largest paper, the Wilmington News Journal! And on page A 4 of The Delaware State News of 2-16-21, the second-largest paper in our state. 🙂 An Open Letter to our Attorney General 2/6/21 My friend, and a friend to anyone interested in justice, Kathy Jennings, is Delaware’s Attorney General, and she is doing a fine job. However, I have a...
Opioid Deaths Fall When Cannabis Stores Rise, Analysis Suggests — Can legal marijuana ease the opioid crisis?
This has been known for some time, but it warrants repeating! Though not the front page headlines so much, opioids continue to kill thousands of our kids, sisters, Moms, … every month! Another reason why POT should be legal everywhere. SEE https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates = Overdose Death Rates | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Excerpts from the Article: Access to legal cannabis stores...
Eleventh Circuit Reinstates Pay-To-Vote for Florida Felons Who Completed Sentences – Again! What Bullshit! – kra
Dumb ass stupid decision. The right to vote should have nothing to do with criminal law. This is how the powers that be prevent those who know best how to fix our prisons … silenced and unable to effect needed changes. Excerpts from the Article: In a 6-4 en banc ruling, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that Florida can bar ex-felons from voting until they pay all court fines, fees, and restitution — even if they are...
Florida Spent $1.7 Million, and Counting, to Impede Felon Voting Rights
Make no mistake about it: these laws prohibiting ex offenders from voting are racist. Most ex offenders are colored, and the powers that be do not want them to vote, plain and simple. I say again: voting rights should have nothing to do with one’s criminal record. There is NO logical, non racist connection. Excerpt from the Article: Florida’s legal battle to defend a 2019 law that requires felons to pay all “legal financial obligations”...