Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic former mayor of San Francisco, will co-chair the campaign to defeat Proposition 19, the marijuana legalization initiative on the ballot in November, according to a press release today.
Her co-chair will be L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca. This is a huge win for the opposition. Feinstein's already voiced opposition, but she seems to be really putting some force behind it with this move.
"California will not see a single positive result if Proposition 19 passes," said Senator Feinstein. "It is a poorly constructed initiative that will cause harm to Californians on our roadways, and in our schools, workplaces and communities. I look forward to working with Sheriff Baca to ensure we defeat Proposition 19 in November."
(Proponents believe prohibition of marijuana impinges on the rights of Californians to do as they please with a substance no more harmful than alcohol or tobacco, wastes precious law enforcement resources, and leads to racial-profiling.)
Regardless, Feinstein represents probably the key constituency supporters will need for Prop. 19 to pass: moderate Democrats who haven't smoke weed since college and are largely persuadable on this issue either way.
The partisans on the issue are already in their respective camps. The "pro" side now has two challenges: Get their staunch partisans, who probably aren't very reliable voters, to come out. And, persuade moderates, make them feel comfortable with legalization. Feinstein just made that second task harder.
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/election-2010-1/sen-diane-feintstein-to-chair/
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Once again Feinstein is pulling a Jerry Brown on free-thinkers. Maybe if she smoked a doobie, she would find the truth about a weed that was nationwide naturally. It was polititions who saw something that they couldn’t control and decieded to eradicate a weed that has medicional propertys way back in the 30’s. Thats the kind of ‘out of touch with reality’ type of politiions we have in office in this century. We need to vote the rest of the incumbants out of office and put some new-age people in their place!
Do these states know how much money they can be making if they only legalized marijuana. They would make a Shit load of money off of a natural herb. Wake up and smell the ganja!!!