-Caveat Lector- ------- Start of forwarded message ------- From: Libertarian Party Announcements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Nevada Marijuana Initiative Tied 46% to 46%! Date: 10/21/02 2:47:21 PM
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ======================================= Nevada marijuana initiative tied 46% to 46% Libertarian Party 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW Suite 100 Washington Dc 20037 ======================================= For additional information contact: Political Director Ron Crickenberger E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone 202-333-0008 Ext. 227 ======================================= The Libertarian Party is sending this message to you as part of a message-exchange agreement with the Marijuana Policy Project. The LP will never share, rent, or sell your e-mail address to anyone, but we occasionally exchange messages with other organizations that are working for liberty. ============================================== Dear Friend, The latest statewide poll of 600 Nevada voters shows that the Marijuana Policy Project's ballot initiative is now in a 46% to 46% dead heat, with 8% of the voters undecided. If passed, our Nevada ballot initiative would (1) remove the threat of arrest and all other penalties for adults who use and possess up to three ounces of marijuana for any reason, and (2) require the state legislature to implement a system so that adults can purchase marijuana from a legal market rather than the criminal market. This initiative to end the arrest of all marijuana users -- which Nevadans began voting on two days ago -- is by far the best opportunity we have ever had to end marijuana prohibition anywhere in the country. Would you please visit http://www.nrle.org to donate $10 or more to this landmark campaign? Every $10 you donate will mean that 600 voters will see one of our TV ads one time each ... and $100 will pay for 6,000 voter impressions ... and $250 will pay for 15,000 voter impressions. If you donate $250 or more, we will send you a video compilation late next month of all of our Nevada TV commercials and news coverage. In addition, donations of $250 or more can be tax-deductible by visiting http://www.nrle.org and checking the appropriate box. If you are unable to donate, or unsure you want to donate, please subscribe to our free e-mail list at http://www.nrle.org to receive regular updates on this exciting campaign. This Web site also contains a compendium of news articles about our campaign, including: * The largest newspaper in Nevada, the "Las Vegas Review-Journal", endorsed our initiative! And so have the former president of a teachers union, the former president of the largest police association, and a team of elected officials, physicians, attorneys, medical marijuana patients, and nearly 4,000 other Nevadans. * The opposition campaign -- which is composed almost exclusively of police, sheriffs, and prosecutors who are breaking the law by campaigning while on the job -- has claimed that those of us who support the marijuana initiative are being funded by Colombian drug cartels. This lie got the spokesperson for their campaign fired. (Our opponents don't understand that drug cartels support prohibition -- not our initiative -- because a legal market would put illegal drug traffickers out of business.) * Drug Czar John Walters visited Nevada a week ago, illegally spending federal money to campaign against our ballot initiative. He refused to debate us, so we crushed him with a protest: "Sign-waving supporters of Question 9 gathered Thursday outside a local television studio to confront the nation's drug czar, who was in Las Vegas to campaign against the ballot initiative that would decriminalize small amounts of marijuana. John Walters, chief of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, slipped out a back door at KLAS." The good news is that we just released the last of our seven TV ads; you can view all of them at http://www.nrle.org. The bad news is that our opponents just started airing their own TV commercials for the first time. As I mentioned, Nevada voters are currently split 46% to 46% on our initiative. Now that our opponents are spending $200,000 to run their ads 12,000,000 times, I am fearing that Nevada voters are going to tilt slightly away from us -- and at the worst possible time! Unlike most other states, polling locations in Nevada are open for two weeks -- from October 19 to November 1, and then again on November 5. We absolutely must run more TV ads than our opponents run this week if we want to stay competitive during these last two weeks of the campaign. Would you please visit http://www.nrle.org to join our campaign by donating $10 or more? Our three key TV ads feature (1) FBI statistics on the crime wave in Nevada and a police spokesperson urging voters to pass our ballot initiative so that police can focus on violent crime instead of marijuana, (2) a physician and patient urging Nevadans to vote "yes" so that patients will be able to obtain medical marijuana from a legally regulated market, and (3) teacher, police, and physician spokespersons and a crowd of other Nevadans all urging voters to approve our ballot measure. Please visit http://www.nrle.org to view the ads. Our opponents' ads feature law enforcement leaders lying about our initiative. One erroneously claims that our initiative would make it legal to smoke marijuana and then drive a school bus full of children. (We will place these ads on our Web site as soon as we obtain them.) And the marijuana issue is winnable, as the latest poll shows. Please help us make history by donating $10 or more at http://www.nrle.org today. Thank you! Sincerely, Rob Kampia Executive Director Marijuana Policy Project Washington, D.C. P.S. The Marijuana Policy Project is the parent organization of Nevadans for Responsible Law Enforcement. Our Web sites are http://www.mpp.org and http://www.nrle.org, respectively. P.P.S. Please join our Nevada campaign team and me for what will hopefully be a victory celebration in Anaheim, California on November 8-10 -- our national conference, which is sure to be mobbed by TV cameras and reporters. 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