“If you’re getting high in Colorado today, enjoy it. As of January 2017, I will enforce the federal laws.”
— Gov. Chris Christie (R), quoted by Politico.
“If you’re getting high in Colorado today, enjoy it. As of January 2017, I will enforce the federal laws.”
— Gov. Chris Christie (R), quoted by Politico.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) repeatedly slammed Jeb Bush for his “hypocritical” stance on marijuana, Business Insider reports.
Said Paul: “I think if you talk to young people, they’re not very tolerant of hypocrisy. Jeb Bush admits that — when he was at an elite prep school, where very wealthy kids went to school — that he smoked pot. But he’s still willing to put someone in jail for medical marijuana in Florida. … When Jeb was a very wealthy kid at a very elite school, he used marijuana but didn’t get caught [and] didn’t have to go to prison. I think it shows some hypocrisy.”
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s office “offered to change her position on medical marijuana if a major Florida donor recanted his withering criticism of her,” according to emails obtained by Politico.
“The proposal to Orlando trial lawyer John Morgan was straightforward: retract critical statements he made to a reporter in return for Wasserman Schultz publicly backing his cannabis initiative that she had trashed just months earlier. Morgan declined the offer with a sharp email reply sent to a go-between, who described the congresswoman as being in a ‘tizzy.'”
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio “said today he does not smoke marijuana and has not in many years, after he was asked point-blunt about the herb,” the New York Daily News reports.
Gawker: “We’re skeptical, to say the least. Have you—or someone you know—recently smoked pot with the Blaz? If so, send us an email or hop in below.”
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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