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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Politics Pot Activists: Not All Mellow. (Or, a Nomination for Me as a Dumb Motherfucker.)

Posted by Eli Sanders on Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:23 AM

So, I write this in my roundup of possible statewide initiatives:

I-1068

This effort to decriminalize pot statewide is pretty much dead already. It went down in bitter, bitter flames in early June when I-1068's spokesman and coauthor, Philip Dawdy, issued a furious press release railing against the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) for "romancing" his group and then not sending any money, and berating the "armchair liberals" at the ACLU for not supporting him either. "Politics in this state stink," said Dawdy. "Marijuana smells better. It's disappointing that SEIU and others have walked away from us, but this campaign will fight on because the issue is simply too important." March on, stoners. And better luck next time.

And then yesterday in my voice mail, I received this from an unknown person:

Which I (roughly) transcribe as:

Eli Sanders you fucking dumb motherfucker. 1068's gonna pass motherfucking fuck[inaudible/incoherent]."

Noted.

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well, do they have the sigs or not? i'm twisting the arms of everyone i know, because they all at least USED to smoke weed, but would NEVER now. or so they say.

Posted by Max Solomon on June 23, 2010 at 10:43 AM

That voicemail was hilarious. It made my day.

Posted by mao on June 23, 2010 at 10:56 AM

Maybe you should open the Stranger and see what's inside it?

Posted by Will in Seattle

on June 23, 2010 at 11:07 AM

LOL @ Will. Yeah, thanks for the great printing rates, Eli.

Posted by shuvoff on June 23, 2010 at 11:18 AM

There's like a perpetual case of Tourette's that infects anyone close to this campaign.

Posted by klata on June 23, 2010 at 11:25 AM

Eli, why would you try to undermine I-1068 by prematurely pronouncing it dead?

Posted by seandr on June 23, 2010 at 11:28 AM

Thanks for the rates on the print/ad indeed. I'll save the rant and just say "please sign" :)

Posted by ddecounter on June 23, 2010 at 11:39 AM

LOLWUT.

Posted by venomlash on June 23, 2010 at 11:46 AM

As someone who personally knows all the major players of I-1068, I can tell you that the voice on that voicemail wasn't any of them.

Posted by NaFun

on June 23, 2010 at 11:46 AM

That voice mail sounds like someone needs to go a little easier on the wake n' bake.

Posted by robwolf on June 23, 2010 at 11:47 AM

I thought I heard they had enough signatures, but not enough to be like 100% sure, it seems like it'll come down to the wire, wish I could have helped...*toke toke toke toke toke*

Posted by watchout5