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On Wednesday, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that Nevada's Secretary
of State doesn't have to require the White House drug czar to obey
campaign finance laws.
(This case has nothing to do with the Marijuana Policy Project's
litigation to place our marijuana-regulation initiative on the
November 2 ballot. Rather, the Nevada Supreme Court's ruling means
federal officials do not have to publicly disclose the taxpayer money
they're spending to oppose privately funded initiatives; in the
meantime, privately funded campaigns like MPP's must continue to file
campaign finance reports for public inspection.)
And Nevada's elections officials are openly breaking the law during
the current recount of MPP's initiative signatures ... refusing to
give us copies of our petitions so that we can check the validity of
the government workers' recount ... and refusing to allow our campaign
staffers to observe the recount process -- even though this right is
being granted to other initiative campaigns!
Nevada's top elections officials are corrupt, and their actions could
very well keep us off the ballot.
I'm angry. If you are also, please help us by forcing the Secretary
of State to follow the law:
1. Please call Secretary of State Dean Heller at 775-684-5705 and tell
him to "allow the Marijuana Policy Project to fully view all
government workers who are checking the validity of MPP's signatures."
In Las Vegas, the government has penned four of our people into a
corner while 20 government workers simultaneously check the validity
of our signatures on 20 computers!
2. Please donate at http://www.RegulateMarijuana.org/donate1024 so
that we can afford to continue our lawsuit against the corrupt
elections officials. One week ago, a federal judge incorrectly
disqualified thousands of our signatures because we didn't turn in the
voter registration forms of newly registered voters on the same day
that they signed our petitions. We must appeal this case immediately
to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
If the signature recount shows we turned in enough valid
signatures -- or if we win in the Ninth Circuit -- our initiative will
be placed on the ballot. We only need to win one out of two!
----------------------------------------------------
On April 22, MPP filed a legal motion with the Nevada Supreme Court to
force Heller to require Drug Czar John Walters to report on the
taxpayer money he's spending in Nevada to oppose our initiative.
Previously, Walters had flatly refused to comply with the Nevada law
that requires him to file these campaign finance reports.
Wednesday's court ruling means that Heller can choose to allow the
drug czar to continue ignoring state campaign finance laws.
But this is the least of our challenges right now. As I reported last
week, MPP won two of its three charges against Heller in federal
court, which threw out part of Nevada's constitution and triggered a
statewide recount of the 66,000 gross signatures that MPP turned in
two months ago.
Please visit http://www.RegulateMarijuana.org/donate1024 to pay for
our people to continue watching the recount, as well as to pay for our
lawyers to sue the elections officials.
Heller is so biased that he's willing to break the law to defeat
us -- the exact opposite of what an elections official should be
doing.
As I write this, elections officials are keeping our observers
cordoned off in a corner and refusing to allow them to closely monitor
the recount -- even though workers from other campaigns are being
allowed to monitor their own initiatives' recounts!
The elections officials have also been breaking the law by refusing to
release photocopies of our petitions so that we can check the
government's work. And Heller has openly stated that he chose to
appeal an earlier court ruling that he otherwise would have let
stand ... because the ruling would have ended up helping MPP. (Visit
http://www.mpp.org/NV/news_7809.html to read this story.)
This is all simply too outrageous. Our lawyers are preparing to file
our appeal imminently, and MPP needs your help to pay the bill. Please
visit http://www.RegulateMarijuana.org/donate1024 to help us win our
case so that we may place our initiative on the November 2 ballot.
Since the Nevada government first began attempting to keep MPP's
initiative off the ballot two months ago, we've had to fight on every
front, every day. But we're moving closer and closer to victory. We
cannot let Secretary of State Heller's illegal and corrupt behavior
stand in our way now.
If approved by Nevada voters, MPP's initiative would make history. If
enacted, the law would remove all penalties for marijuana use by
adults aged 21 and older, as well as require the state government to
authorize a system for the legal cultivation, distribution, and sale
of marijuana to adults. The effects of this would reverberate across
the nation ... but we need your help.
Battling state officials wasn't part of our original budget. Would you
please visit http://www.RegulateMarijuana.org/donate1024 to lend your
urgently needed support today, so that we can do what it takes to win?
Sincerely,
Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
======================================================================
The Marijuana Policy Project hopes that each of the 142,000
subscribers on our national e-mail list will make at least one
financial donation to MPP's work in 2004. According to our records,
you have already donated, and we want to thank you for that. If, by
any chance, you want to donate again or join MPP's monthly credit card
pledge program, please visit
http://www.RegulateMarijuana.org/donate1024 at your convenience.
On Wednesday, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled that Nevada's Secretary
of State doesn't have to require the White House drug czar to obey
campaign finance laws.
(This case has nothing to do with the Marijuana Policy Project's
litigation to place our marijuana-regulation initiative on the
November 2 ballot. Rather, the Nevada Supreme Court's ruling means
federal officials do not have to publicly disclose the taxpayer money
they're spending to oppose privately funded initiatives; in the
meantime, privately funded campaigns like MPP's must continue to file
campaign finance reports for public inspection.)
And Nevada's elections officials are openly breaking the law during
the current recount of MPP's initiative signatures ... refusing to
give us copies of our petitions so that we can check the validity of
the government workers' recount ... and refusing to allow our campaign
staffers to observe the recount process -- even though this right is
being granted to other initiative campaigns!
Nevada's top elections officials are corrupt, and their actions could
very well keep us off the ballot.
I'm angry. If you are also, please help us by forcing the Secretary
of State to follow the law:
1. Please call Secretary of State Dean Heller at 775-684-5705 and tell
him to "allow the Marijuana Policy Project to fully view all
government workers who are checking the validity of MPP's signatures."
In Las Vegas, the government has penned four of our people into a
corner while 20 government workers simultaneously check the validity
of our signatures on 20 computers!
2. Please donate at http://www.RegulateMarijuana.org/donate1024 so
that we can afford to continue our lawsuit against the corrupt
elections officials. One week ago, a federal judge incorrectly
disqualified thousands of our signatures because we didn't turn in the
voter registration forms of newly registered voters on the same day
that they signed our petitions. We must appeal this case immediately
to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
If the signature recount shows we turned in enough valid
signatures -- or if we win in the Ninth Circuit -- our initiative will
be placed on the ballot. We only need to win one out of two!
----------------------------------------------------
On April 22, MPP filed a legal motion with the Nevada Supreme Court to
force Heller to require Drug Czar John Walters to report on the
taxpayer money he's spending in Nevada to oppose our initiative.
Previously, Walters had flatly refused to comply with the Nevada law
that requires him to file these campaign finance reports.
Wednesday's court ruling means that Heller can choose to allow the
drug czar to continue ignoring state campaign finance laws.
But this is the least of our challenges right now. As I reported last
week, MPP won two of its three charges against Heller in federal
court, which threw out part of Nevada's constitution and triggered a
statewide recount of the 66,000 gross signatures that MPP turned in
two months ago.
Please visit http://www.RegulateMarijuana.org/donate1024 to pay for
our people to continue watching the recount, as well as to pay for our
lawyers to sue the elections officials.
Heller is so biased that he's willing to break the law to defeat
us -- the exact opposite of what an elections official should be
doing.
As I write this, elections officials are keeping our observers
cordoned off in a corner and refusing to allow them to closely monitor
the recount -- even though workers from other campaigns are being
allowed to monitor their own initiatives' recounts!
The elections officials have also been breaking the law by refusing to
release photocopies of our petitions so that we can check the
government's work. And Heller has openly stated that he chose to
appeal an earlier court ruling that he otherwise would have let
stand ... because the ruling would have ended up helping MPP. (Visit
http://www.mpp.org/NV/news_7809.html to read this story.)
This is all simply too outrageous. Our lawyers are preparing to file
our appeal imminently, and MPP needs your help to pay the bill. Please
visit http://www.RegulateMarijuana.org/donate1024 to help us win our
case so that we may place our initiative on the November 2 ballot.
Since the Nevada government first began attempting to keep MPP's
initiative off the ballot two months ago, we've had to fight on every
front, every day. But we're moving closer and closer to victory. We
cannot let Secretary of State Heller's illegal and corrupt behavior
stand in our way now.
If approved by Nevada voters, MPP's initiative would make history. If
enacted, the law would remove all penalties for marijuana use by
adults aged 21 and older, as well as require the state government to
authorize a system for the legal cultivation, distribution, and sale
of marijuana to adults. The effects of this would reverberate across
the nation ... but we need your help.
Battling state officials wasn't part of our original budget. Would you
please visit http://www.RegulateMarijuana.org/donate1024 to lend your
urgently needed support today, so that we can do what it takes to win?
Sincerely,
Rob Kampia
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
======================================================================
The Marijuana Policy Project hopes that each of the 142,000
subscribers on our national e-mail list will make at least one
financial donation to MPP's work in 2004. According to our records,
you have already donated, and we want to thank you for that. If, by
any chance, you want to donate again or join MPP's monthly credit card
pledge program, please visit
http://www.RegulateMarijuana.org/donate1024 at your convenience.
