Carl Marcellino
A Conservative Strategy on Marijuana
Advocates of legalizing medicinal marijuana in New York are now pinning their hopes on, of all people, conservatives.
Here's a pro-medicinal marijuana ad that appeared in a local Brooklyn paper this week, targeting Conservative-Republican state Senator Marty Golden, and featuring Joel Peacock, a member of the state’s Conservative Party.
The ad says that Peacock suffers from “chronic, severe pain“ from a 2001 car accident and that medicinal marijuana offers him effective and cheap relief.
The ad targeting Golden is one of eight ads aimed at Republican state Senators across New York, which also feature polling information that supporters say proves the bill is more popular among voters than lawmakers think.
The other state senators are Carl Marcellino Kemp Hannon, Dean Skelos, all from Long Island, Frank Padavan and Serph Maltese of Queens, Thomas Morahan of Rockland County and Dale Volker from upstate.
Here's a pro-medicinal marijuana ad that appeared in a local Brooklyn paper this week, targeting Conservative-Republican state Senator Marty Golden, and featuring Joel Peacock, a member of the state’s Conservative Party.
The ad says that Peacock suffers from “chronic, severe pain“ from a 2001 car accident and that medicinal marijuana offers him effective and cheap relief.
The ad targeting Golden is one of eight ads aimed at Republican state Senators across New York, which also feature polling information that supporters say proves the bill is more popular among voters than lawmakers think.
The other state senators are Carl Marcellino Kemp Hannon, Dean Skelos, all from Long Island, Frank Padavan and Serph Maltese of Queens, Thomas Morahan of Rockland County and Dale Volker from upstate.
More on the campaign after the jump. read more »
Events for April 5, 2007
9 a.m. Quinnipiac University Polling Institute will release results of a poll asking New York state voters about 2008 presidential hopefuls.
9:30 a.m. Sen. Malcolm Smith kicks off a listening tour in Far Rockaway at the Rockaway-Inwood Ministerial Coalition, 2123 Birdsall Avenue; then moves on to Rockaway Childcare of Redfern, 1466 Beach Channel Drive, at 10:50 a.m.; JASA, 1915 Seagirt Boulevard, at noon; the Ocean Bay Community Development, 434 Beach 54th Street, at 1:30 p.m.; and the Redfern Housing Development, 1456 Beach Channel Drive, at 4 p.m. read more »
