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Friday, August 24, 2012

Politics Medical Pot Group Reports Some (but Not All) Campaign Expenditures

Posted by Dominic Holden on Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:16 PM

On Tuesday, I reported on a medical-marijuana business that didn't identify the sponsor of its campaign materials and hadn't yet reported expenses for handbills, signs, and other materials to oppose a marijuana-legalization Initiative 502 on the fall ballot. State election law says all spending must be reported.

It now appears that 4Evergreen Group, which issues authorizations to use medical cannabis, has reported some of its expenses—but not all of them.

This was one of several banners at Hempfest last week telling voters to reject I-502. The state says all such campaign expenditures must be reported within five days.

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This was one of several banners at Hempfest last week telling voters to reject I-502. The state says all such campaign expenditures must be reported within five days.

The group spent $180 on handbills printed in California, according to this filing with the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission, and it lists $75 in other expenditures. But that doesn't seem to account for the plethora of other materials, such as several vinyl banners designed by Art Chantry (see photo to the right), stacks of color posters, and several t-shirts. Those items still haven't been reported.

"They would have to do the same sort of reporting," says PDC spokeswoman Lori Anderson. The reports are due within five days of making the expense—and it's more than five days since the materials debuted at Hempfest last Friday. Anderson adds, "We will follow up with them and ask about the other stuff and why they haven't filed the other expenditures."

An attorney for 4Evergeeen, Eric Camm, has asked me to direct all inquires to him, but he hasn't answered any of my questions.

UPDATE: As noted in mmmdata comments, it appears 4Evergreen has now posted a report for $536 in t-shirts, which you can see here, but there's not mention of the posters or banners. For the record, this not Watergate sort of stuff. It appears that 4Evergreen is making a good-faith effort to comply with the law.

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I just looked at the PDC website, there is now another independent expenditure listed, for 4E group in the amount of $536, for t-shirts. Still doesn't explain the banners, posters, anything else.

http://www.pdc.wa.gov/rptimg/default.asp…

Posted by mmmdata on August 24, 2012 at 4:35 PM

Conservatives believe that hierarchies and social inequality are generated by innate human characteristics, that one group is naturally superior to another. As a result, they tend to move in lockstep, with the sheep following the leader, no questions asked.

Progressives on the other hand believe that social inequality is a cultural construct and must be done away with. For this reason, anyone who attempts to lead Progressives has to face a certain amount of friendly-fire. There is a "you're not the boss of me" attitude at work here, a natural byproduct of our basic ideology, since a lack of social inequality implies a lack of hierarchy, and therefore a tendency to perpetually challenge leaders of any kind. We refuse to be sheep,. and anything that looks like a shepherd will get his/her ass kicked.

for this reason, we see infighting like we do with this group attempting to undermine their own interests. I'll bet they don't really oppose the idea of marijuana legislation at all-they just cannot stand the idea that somebody else had the initiative to get the measure on the ballot before they did.

Posted by Tacoma Traveler on August 24, 2012 at 5:37 PM