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December 03, 2002
We demand justice! Drug czar John Walters openly campaigned against the Nevada marijuana legalization initiative during the 2002 elections. Now the sponsoring group for that initiative, the Marijuana Policy Project, is filing formal complaints against Walters for violating the Hatch Act, and for unreported in-kind political contributions.
Oh, hell yeah! Blatantly commandeering tax money to pay for political campaigning violates any idea of democracy. Walters job is enforcing the law, not making it. The voters decide, then he abides by their decision. The feds seem to think that they should be able to pass "campaign finance reforms" to stop the NRA from using their own money in campaigns, while they throw their authority and OUR money around with impunity.
Maybe I'm missing something, but on the face of it Walters appears to have arguably committed crimes on both the state and federal level. The laws don't really apply to the government most of the time in practice, but it looks like he should be sent to prison. Oh, and he should lose his job, too. His active undermining of the democratic process seems much more damaging than most of the drug users he persecutes.
What was he smoking to think he could get away with this?
