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Tell the California Democratic Party: Endorse Prop 19!

by Vote Yes on 19
Sign the Courage Campaign petition before this weekend's CDP Executive Board meeting in San Jose.
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This weekend, the California Democratic Party's Executive Board will meet in San Jose to make endorsement decisions on the November ballot propositions. Courage Campaign's Public Policy Director, Robert Cruickshank, is a member of the E-Board and will be there to organize the delegates to vote to endorse Proposition 19, the initiative to control and tax cannabis.

Although polls show California Democratic voters support Prop 19, some Democrats are trying to block the party from endorsing it. Senator Dianne Feinstein released a statement on Monday opposing Prop 19, timed to influence the E-Board to vote against endorsing Prop 19.

We can win a victory for Prop 19 this weekend in San Jose -- if we can show the delegates that Californians want them to endorse Prop 19. That's why the Courage Campaign is going to bring a petition in support of Prop 19 to the meeting this weekend. Will you sign our petition? Help convince the California Democratic Party to endorse Prop 19!

We, the undersigned, urge the California Democratic Party Executive Board to reform our prisons, help fix the budget mess, and make our communities safer by endorsing Proposition 19.

We reject the arguments of Senator Dianne Feinstein and others who oppose Prop 19. Prop 19 will provide for more effective regulation of cannabis, including prohibitions on its sale to people under age 21. It will help reduce drug crime by legalizing the growth, sale, and possession of small, reasonable amounts of cannabis. And it allows local governments to generate badly needed revenue by taxing cannabis.

We urge the Executive Board to follow the lead of the majority of California Democrats who support Prop 19 by endorsing it at this weekend's meeting in San Jose. It is time to bring sensible, rational reform of cannabis laws to California.

Sign here to tell the California Democratic Party to endorse Prop 19:

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Who the fuck needs them. I can do it on my own!
Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party have endorsed Proposition 19 and their candidates are the only candidates worth considering. Diane Feinstein is a long-time anti-marijuana legalization crackpot. Try thinking and voting outside the box for a change. If you want good things to happen, you have to vote for good people. Here are Peace & Freedom Party's endorsements so far, with more to come by or before September.
See
http://peaceandfreedom.org/home/campaign/november-2-general
Peace and Freedom Party Candidates
Governor: Carlos Alvarez
Lt. Governor: C.T. Weber
Secretary of State: Marylou Cabral
Controller: Karen Martinez
Treasurer: Debra L. Reiger
Attorney General: Robert J. Evans
Insurance Commissioner: Dina Josephine Padilla

Board of Equalization:
1st District: Sherill Borg
2nd District: Toby Mitchell-Sawyer
3rd District: Mary Lou Finley
4th District: Nancy Lawrence

U.S. Senate: Marsha Feinland

U.S. Congress:
3rd District: Mike Roskey
5th District: Gerald Allen Frink
6th District: Eugene E. Ruyle
8th District: Gloria E. La Riva
9th District: Larry Allen
30th District: Richard R. Castaldo
50th District: Miriam E. Clark

State Senate:
6th District: Lanric Hyland
26th District: Cindy Varela Henderson

State Assembly:
4th District: Daniel D. Frederick
5th District: Elizabeth Martinez
9th District: Daniel A. Costa
10th District: Albert R. Troyer

The Propositions
Proposition 18 Water bonds - NO
Proposition 19 Legalize cannabis - YES
Proposition 20 Congressional redistricting - under consideration
Proposition 21 Vehicle license surcharge for parks - under consideration
Proposition 22 Transportation/local government funding - under consideration
Proposition 23 Suspend greenhouse gas controls - NO
Proposition 24 End business tax breaks - YES
Proposition 25 Majority vote on budgets - under consideration
Proposition 26 Two-thirds vote on fees - NO
Proposition 27 Repeal redistricting reform - under consideration
Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:18

Here is the California Green Party's position so far, with more to come by September:
From
http://www.cagreens.org/elections/2010/Propositions.November.shtml#_prop_plen_mar
Party Positions on November 2010 Propositions
These positions were established at the San Jose Plenary (March 2010), and as a result of the County Polling process

From the March 2010 Plenary
The GA also took the following positions in advance of any of the following proposed or pending initiatives being certified for the ballot:

Marijuana Legalization (Regulation and Restrictions similar to those for alcohol) -- Support; Vote YES
Any measure requiring parental notification before doctors/hospitals could provide abortion services to minors -- Oppose; Vote NO (this position is unchanged from the last three times this initiative has been put forth)
Repeal of Proposition 8 (repeal of definition of marriage as between a man and a women, only) -- Support; Vote YES
County Polling (mid-year 2010)
Polling not yet complete

Last updated: 07/13/2010 (BH)

AND AS TO GAY MARRIAGE, DID YOU NOTICE ARGENTINA, A PREDOMINATELY CATHOLIC COUNTRY, HAS LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE? Garbage USA is so far behind that even wearing glasses will make it difficult to find the US in the line-up to legalize gay marriage when this issue becomes passe. This issue is taking the same litmus test importance as women's suffrage did in the 19th and 20th centuries. The US was not the first on that either; New Zealand was in 1893. Australia and the Scandinavian countries followed soon thereafter. THEN CAME THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION OF 1917, which made possible women's suffrage in the Soviet Union. In 1918, Germany, Austria, Netherlands and Belgium joined the line-up. Since the Reds now had women's suffrage, anti-communist USA had to follow (not lead), and in 1920, American women finally won the right to vote. You can read the timeline at:
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/suffrage/a/intl_timeline.htm

There is only one thing the USA leads in doing: Making guns and war around the world to maximize the profits of the capitalist class, all wrapped up in the former flag, with modification, of the British East India Company, a colonial enterprise. See
http://flagspot.net/flags/gb-eic2.html
by anonymous
You know, prop 19 is all wrong. Using indybay.org and independent activists to endorse this measure is pure, cynical opportunism.

I hope all conscious kind human beings who love the earth, love cannabis, and love their own dignity and human rights will see past this petty election, campaign promise of the corporate backers of prop 19.

They seek to legalize a plant that has always been legal.

They seek to profit from huge giant fields of inferior quality medicine.
They are going to push indoor (no sunlight) non medical herb to the masses, and plan on raking in millions.. just look at oakland.

So what to do? who cares about democrat, republican! they both sell out to corporate interests.

Vote no against prop 19. It's the conscious thing to do.

http://votetaxcannabis2010.blogspot.com/2010/07/why-pro-pot-activists-oppose-2010-tax.html

WHY PRO-POT ACTIVISTS OPPOSE THE 2010 TAX CANNABIS INITIATIVE: 18 REASONS TO VOTE KNOW


“People think it’s legalization, it’s being sold as legalization—even though it’s the opposite of legalization.”
- Dennis Peron, author of Prop. 215 that legalized medical marijuana in California

Stoners Against the Prop. 19 Tax Cannabis Initiative

this blog takes an intelligent approach to evaluating the 2010 tax cannabis initiative proposed for california's november ballot. STONER BEWARE: this initiative is NOT what you think it is. if you are passionate about marijuana and legalization, read this blog and see what the initiative really says. then just vote KNOW.
http://votetaxcannabis2010.blogspot.com/
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