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**Payaso** · 04-14-2010, 06:22 PM

Men's Wearhouse founder and tireless spokesman George Zimmer has been revealed as California's second-biggest spender on efforts to legalize cannabis.

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Now that a proposal to legalize pot is on the ballot in California, well-organized groups are lining up on both sides of the debate. And it's not just tie-dyed hippies versus anti-drug crusaders.

So far, the most outspoken groups on the issue are those affiliated with California's legal medical marijuana industry and law enforcement officials who vehemently oppose any loosening of drug laws.

The largest donations from an individual not connected to the marijuana business came from George Zimmer, founder and chief executive of the men's clothing chain Men's Wearhouse.

Television viewers know Zimmer as the Fremont-based company's longtime pitchman in commercials. But he is also known as a longtime supporter of efforts to liberalize the nation's drug laws.

Read the full story here:
https://articles.sfgate.com/2010-03-2...-laws-legalize

john cutter · 04-14-2010, 08:14 PM

Youre going to like the weed you smoke, I guarantee it!

Hydrosun · 04-14-2010, 10:03 PM

Well go Mens Warehouse!!!!!!!

I hope they see huge increases in business from this community. Some of us are still buying suits and renting tuxes. Glad to know he is on our side.

Bass Akwards · 04-14-2010, 10:54 PM

This is very good news.

Glad to hear that George is putting his money where his mouth is, ...
( and where his mouth has been for a long, long, time ).

We knew George back in the day, and he's not the only guy in that circle who's become successful since moving out West.

It's fairly certain that all of them are now contributing to the cause.

That link will go to several old friends, and is certain to draw knowing smiles.

**Skip** · 04-15-2010, 12:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Hydrosun

Well go Mens Warehouse!!!!!!!

I hope they see huge increases in business from this community. Some of us are still buying suits and renting tuxes. Glad to know he is on our side.

Yes, it's very important for us to support those who support this community!

Alternatively, it's important for us to withdraw support for those who take actions and speak against our community.

This is how we change the world...

nomaad · 04-15-2010, 04:57 AM

The very last time I wore a suit to work was years ago, in New Orleans of all places. I was working the door, and occaisionally the champagne lounge at an upscale (lol) gentlemen's club on Bourbon Street... I bought my wardrobe for the job at Men's Warehouse.

I have been needing a new leather belt. I think I know where I'll get it.

Open Eyes · 04-15-2010, 01:35 PM

He guarantees it! Is he still doing those commercials? Does he have his beard still? lol

Edit...my wedding TUX came from him.

**Payaso** · 04-15-2010, 05:16 PM

Ha! Nomaad in a suit, now that's an image!

nomaad · 04-15-2010, 05:29 PM

A pimp-suit no less. I actually grew up in a modern orthodox Jewish family. I wore a jacket and tie or a suit every saturday of my life till about 15 when I stopped going to temple. In my early 20's, I was a mortgage consultant and wore suits all the time. Sometime in that same period I decided to never wear a tie again. That men have been convinced that something tied tightly around their throat is anything but a leash, is pretty bizarre to me.

I still rock a suit from time to time. Its a classic 3-button black wool joint whose cut has been stylish enough for the last decade and probably has another decade left in it before I look like the guy who pulled his bar-mitzvah suit out of mothballs for the wedding. I still refuse to wear a tie for any reason.

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Hydrosun I love my life Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Mostly in my own head Posts: 4,961	Well go Mens Warehouse!!!!!!! I hope they see huge increases in business from this community. Some of us are still buying suits and renting tuxes. Glad to know he is on our side. __________________ "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." ~ Samuel Adams "To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association -- the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it." ~Thomas Jefferson The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. ~Fed 47, A. Hamilton & J. Madison
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Bass Akwards "I've Got My Own Problems" Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: There and Back Posts: 364	Good for George! This is very good news. Glad to hear that George is putting his money where his mouth is, ... ( and where his mouth has been for a long, long, time ). We knew George back in the day, and he's not the only guy in that circle who's become successful since moving out West. It's fairly certain that all of them are now contributing to the cause. That link will go to several old friends, and is certain to draw knowing smiles. Last edited by Bass Akwards; 04-15-2010 at 12:00 AM.. Reason: clarity
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nomaad Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: somewhere in the 707 Posts: 4,472	The very last time I wore a suit to work was years ago, in New Orleans of all places. I was working the door, and occaisionally the champagne lounge at an upscale (lol) gentlemen's club on Bourbon Street... I bought my wardrobe for the job at Men's Warehouse. I have been needing a new leather belt. I think I know where I'll get it. __________________
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Open Eyes Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 225	He guarantees it! Is he still doing those commercials? Does he have his beard still? lol Edit...my wedding TUX came from him. __________________ As of press time, Bobo was reportedly sprawled out on the floor of the laboratory, begging for more cocaine and offering to give researchers hand jobs in exchange for some. Sean Kelly said "If your not on the Swiss train when it pulls out of the station, you've missed it".
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Payaso Administrator Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 6,569	Ha! Nomaad in a suit, now that's an image! __________________
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john cutter Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: international Posts: 222	Youre going to like the weed you smoke, I guarantee it!
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04-15-2010, 05:29 PM	#9
nomaad Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: somewhere in the 707 Posts: 4,472	A pimp-suit no less. I actually grew up in a modern orthodox Jewish family. I wore a jacket and tie or a suit every saturday of my life till about 15 when I stopped going to temple. In my early 20's, I was a mortgage consultant and wore suits all the time. Sometime in that same period I decided to never wear a tie again. That men have been convinced that something tied tightly around their throat is anything but a leash, is pretty bizarre to me. I still rock a suit from time to time. Its a classic 3-button black wool joint whose cut has been stylish enough for the last decade and probably has another decade left in it before I look like the guy who pulled his bar-mitzvah suit out of mothballs for the wedding. I still refuse to wear a tie for any reason. __________________
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