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veggie

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Retired insurance company executive throws cash and support behind Prop. 19
#13345401 - 10/16/10 06:47 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Retired insurance company executive throws cash and support behind Prop. 19 October 16, 2010 - latimes.com
Peter B. Lewis, a retired insurance company executive, has donated $209,005 to the campaign to pass Proposition 19, the marijuana legalization measure on California's Nov. 2 ballot.
The contributions -- to the main campaign committee as well as an independent one -- make Lewis the biggest contributor to the effort after Richard Lee, the Oakland medical marijuana entrepreneur who sponsored the measure and has spent more than $1.5 million .
“I’m supporting the campaign because I support common-sense reform of the nation’s drug laws,” Lewis said Saturday in a statement. “I admire the effort, energy and commitment of the people involved in the campaign, and want to help them get their message out to the voters.”
The campaign began attracting some larger donations in the last two weeks after a Public Policy Institute of California poll of 1,104 likely voters showed the initiative with 52% support.
Sean Parker, a Facebook billionaire, donated $100,000 at the beginning of the month. And David Bronner, the president of Escondido-based Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, joined with the owners of a hemp clothing store to pledge $100,000 to get college students to vote for the initiative.
The No on 19 campaign has lagged in contributions. Its largest donation reported so far this month is $25,000 from Sebastian Musco, the chairman of Santa Ana-based Gemini Industries, which recovers precious metals used in petroleum processing.
The chief executive of The Progressive Corp. for 35 years and now its chairman, Lewis built the Mayfield Village, Ohio, company into one of the nation’s largest auto insurers.
Lewis and a handful of wealthy businessmen have bankrolled California’s drug-related initiatives, but so far most have skipped this campaign. In 1996, Lewis donated $500,000 to Proposition 215, the measure that made California the first to approve the use of marijuana for medical treatment. And in 2000 he donated more than $1 million to Proposition 36, which allows some nonviolent drug offenders to be sentenced to treatment rather than prison.
Lewis gave $50,000 to the Yes on 19 committee and $159,005 to the Drug Policy Action Committee, an independent committee controlled by the Drug Policy Alliance.
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PsilocybinMike
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Re: Retired insurance company executive throws cash and support behind Prop. 19 [Re: veggie]
#13345487 - 10/16/10 07:04 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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I feel like Prop 19 is the first strike in a militant style attack on the establishment/propaganda machine. When and if it passes this is literally going to be a political time bomb. So much change will come forth if this passes in so many different ways. I only wish I could vote.
As for you all of you legal residents of Cali, and I Know there's a lot of you on here, I've just got one thing to say to you..

VOTE OR DIE MOTHAFUCKA VOTE OR DIE VOTE OR DIE
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baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVZBTAYm3rw
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Re: Retired insurance company executive throws cash and support behind Prop. 19 [Re: PsilocybinMike]
#13345495 - 10/16/10 07:07 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
PsilocybinMike said:
As for you all of you legal residents of Cali, and I Know there's a lot of you on here, I've just got one thing to say to you..

VOTE OR DIE MOTHAFUCKA VOTE OR DIE VOTE OR DIE
Indeed. History will be made on Nov. 2.
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LongStrangeTrip
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Re: Retired insurance company executive throws cash and support behind Prop. 19 [Re: PsilocybinMike]
#13345526 - 10/16/10 07:13 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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-------------------- Nothing I say or do is factual; every single thing I write is a work of fiction. Got no idea what I'm talking about here~ "Once in awhile, you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right"~ (Grateful Dead) "o puer, qui omnia nomini debes"; "You, boy, who owe's everything to a name"~ Mark Anthony "Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum."; "Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system."~ Cicero
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ReposadoXochipilli
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Re: Retired insurance company executive throws cash and support behind Prop. 19 [Re: LongStrangeTrip]
#13345669 - 10/16/10 07:43 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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all good news, i want to see for ads for it... although my TV time is limited.
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cokane
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Re: Retired insurance company executive throws cash and support behind Prop. 19 [Re: ReposadoXochipilli]
#13345911 - 10/16/10 08:49 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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I bet all of the money he donated was drug money haha!
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veggie

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Re: Retired insurance company executive throws cash and support behind Prop. 19 [Re: cokane]
#13346047 - 10/16/10 09:31 PM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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That is an odd thing to say. Mr. Lewis is FOR Prop 19 passing, not against it.
It is the people who are against Prop. 19 that generally would have drug money to donate to keep this measure from passing. It is the people that make money off of illegal and high priced cannabis that have the most to lose when cannabis becomes legal. People such as drug dealers, DEA, law enforement, and politicians. These are the folks who benefit from illegal drugs and whose pockets are lined with 'drug money'.
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Re: Retired insurance company executive throws cash and support behind Prop. 19 [Re: veggie]
#13347011 - 10/17/10 06:13 AM (13 years, 7 months ago) |
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^ QFT. When it comes to people opposing prop 19, the question must be asked...qui bono?
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