| Don't Be Fooled By Mannix's Boondoggle |
| Written by Anthony Johnson | |
| Monday, July 30, 2007 | |
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Politicians must love billion-dollar boondoggles because they can't help proposing them. Republican Kevin Mannix's plan to recriminalize medical marijuana and provide a taxpayer handout to the pharmaceutical industry could easily cost our state millions upon millions of dollars. His so-called Oregon Crimefighting Act (Letters, July 26) would not reduce crime by making thousands of sick and disabled patients felons. Patients use medical marijuana to help them retain their sight despite their glaucoma and to help them survive through chemotherapy treatments. Mannix wants to force hard-working Oregonians to shell out their money to the pharmaceutical industry for drugs that patients don't even want. Please don't be fooled by yet another Republican boondoggle. Don't support Initiative Petition 104. ANTHONY JOHNSON Political director, Voter Power Southeast Portland This letter was written to publicize Kevin Mannix's proposed boondoggle because it is important for Oregon voters to know what they are voting upon. Kevin Mannix is trying to hide the repeal of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act behind other provisions while he takes money from Oregon taxpayers and gives our hard-earned money to pharmaceutical companies for ineffective drugs that patients don't even want. |
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