Bush's Drug Czar uses your money to elect Republicans

Recently released Bush administration e-mails and documents show that the White
House Drug Czar's office used your taxpayer money to travel around the country
campaigning for embattled Republican Congressional candidates in the months leading
up to the 2006 elections, under the guise of holding ?anti-drug events.? Every one
of these events was held in a district represented by a Republican member of
Congress facing a tight reelection campaign.

The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy is charged with developing
effective strategies to reduce drug abuse and the problems associated with it.
Instead, under the leadership of political appointee John P. Walters, the Office of
National Drug Control Policy has illegally wasted time and resources pursuing
ideological agendas and partisan politics.

Join Students for Sensible Drug Policy in demanding that John Walters resign!
Please take a few minutes to visit
http://www.capwiz.com/mobilize/issues/alert/?alertid=10036581 and send a pre-written
letter to Walters, which will also be copied to decision makers in Congress who
control ONDCP's budget.

According to reports in the media, Walters coordinated appearances at over 20
Republican campaign events directly with the White House director of political
affairs. In an e-mail from ONDCP's White House liason Doug Simon, it was revealed
that even chief political strategist Karl Rove commended the historically
nonpartisan Office of National Drug Control Policy for ?going above and beyond the
call of duty? in making ?surrogate appearances? at locations Simon described as ?the
god awful places we sent them.?

It is truly disgusting that the Drug Czar?s office would illegally spend taxpayer
money on partisan politics, while insulting the residents of the districts in which
they campaigned. These so-called ?god awful places? include towns with SSDP
chapters including Columbia, MO; Orlando, FL; Seattle, WA; Stockton, CA; and
Cincinnati, OH.

Ironically, according to the Los Angeles Times, of the candidates that the Walters
illegally campaigned for, half lost their re-election bids. This fits a pattern of
ineffective advocacy by ONDCP, following Walters?s pushing for increased funding for
government sponsored anti-drug propaganda ads despite studies showing that the ads
cause more drug abuse, and his promotion of random student drug testing programs
that have been proven to have no impact on drug use.

If you are outraged that John Walters and ONDCP are spending your taxpayer money
illegally campaigning for Republican politicians rather than focusing on reducing
drug abuse in this country, I hope you will take the time to send a letter to
Walters urging him to resign. Just visit
http://www.capwiz.com/mobilize/issues/alert/?alertid=10036581

For more background information on the Drug Czar?s recent hijinx, you can read
SSDP?s blog at
http://daregeneration.blogspot.com/2007/07/partisan-republican-drug-czar-must.html

Also, please consider making a generous donation to Students for Sensible Drug
Policy to support our efforts to protect young people from the excesses of the War
on Drugs by visiting http://www.ssdp.org/donate

Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,

Kris Krane
Executive Director
Students for Sensible Drug Policy