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Newsbrief:
Bush
Campaign
Letter
Attacks
Drug
Reform
Funders
12/12/03
It's getting nasty out there.
In a Wednesday e-mail sent to members of a Bush-Cheney campaign e-mail
list, Bush-Cheney '04 campaign chairman Marc Racicot urged loyalists to
send money to help fight off "vicious personal attacks" on President Bush.
Along the way, however, Racicot engaged in precisely that practice in going
after George Soros and Peter Lewis, two prominent drug reform funders who
this year have contributed heavily to efforts to defeat the Bush re-election
effort.
Soros is a "billionaire liberal"
who said "Bush reminds him of the Nazis," Racicot warned. But Lewis,
the founder and head of the Progressive Insurance company, is that rarest
of all creatures, the "billionaire leftist." And while it was not
their drug reform politics which drew Racicot's ire, but large contributions
by Soros and Lewis to liberal get-out-the-vote organizations hoping to
unseat Bush in the next election, Racicot couldn't resist using -- or abusing
-- the drug policy connection, telling Bush-Cheney subscribers that Lewis
is "an ardent advocate of hard drugs."
Lewis, who has contributed
millions of dollars to drug reform, last year put most of his money into
marijuana-related projects. He is known as a marijuana consumer,
having been famously arrested in New Zealand for pot possession.
But while he has advocated changes in drug laws, and not only for marijuana,
he has never, as far as DRCNet knows, been "an ardent advocate of hard
drugs."
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Issue #315, 12/12/03
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