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Tuesday, July 31, Judge Jim Gray, Larry Sand, and Katie Grimes join Martha Montelongo, with John Seiler, Managing Editor at CalWatchDog.com, and Ben Boychuk, Associate Editor with City Journal.

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Anaheim PD Violence, City Govt and Drug Laws, One Teachers' Pay Hike Racket, When Defrauding and Shaking Down the Public Became "de rigueur"

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Tuesday, July 31, Judge Jim Gray, Larry Sand, and Katie Grimes join Martha Montelongo, with John Seiler, Managing Editor at CalWatchDog.com, and Ben Boychuk, Associate Editor with City Journal.

Judge Jim Gray authored Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs.  "It was the culmination of his experience as a former federal prosecutor, defense attorney and trial judge."  We'll speak with Judge Gray about Anaheim, about an important factor  in the legal conflicts between the people of the affected neighborhood of Anaheim and the Anaheim Police Department.

Larry Sand  of CTEN talks with us about a racket teachers in CA use to hike their pay regardless of whether or not they hike their skills or achievements as teachers.

Katy Grimes of CalWatchDog talks about the investigative reporting she's done recently, to uncover millions of dollars of stashed away taxpayer dollars.  While the State of CA cries poverty and threatens to shut down parks, cut vital services and cut back university and K-12 funding, agencies have been hoarding and doling out millions of dollars, like slush funds.

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It's time for Californians to get smart on crime, and put the war on drugs behind them.

It's time for Californians to get smart on crime, and put the war on drugs behind them.

California can no longer afford to continue locking up thousands of people each year and branding them "felon" for life simply for possessing a small amount of illicit drugs for personal use. The waste of valuable resources and human life is far too great. For low-level drug offenders, treatment – not incarceration – is the most effective crime prevention. 

State Senator Mark Leno is sponsoring Senate Bill 1506 to revise the penalty for the simple drug possession under state law from a felony to a misdemeanor. This bill will be voted on today or tomorrow in the CA Senate. So, please take a few minutes to write your State Senator today. The legislation will free up funding that can be used effectively to help more people get the treatment they need. It will help to improve safety and relieve overcrowding in California jails and prisons. It will also remove barriers to community reintegration efforts that work against sobriety and public safety.

Tell your California State Senator to support SB 1506 for meaningful drug law reform in California today! 

Sincerely,

Devon Tackels

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Barack Obama drug warrior, Clarence Aaron collateral damage San Francisco Chronicle (blog) This story provides another example of how Barack Obama is worse in the war on drugs than George W. Bush. Pardon expert/blogger extraordinaire PS Ruckman alerted me to this MSNBC appearance in which former pardon attorney Sam Morison talks about how ... See all stories on this topic »

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To date, Johnson has been polling between 6 and 9 percent nationally – several points shy of what he needs.

Johnson, a Republican who served as governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003, is running on a platform that includes slashing government spending to balance the federal budget by 2013, ending wars the U.S. in involved in, and drug reform --  beginning with the legalization of marijuana but extending all the way to the war on drugs, drug policy, relations with Latin America, and even law enforcement policies and priorities-- issues that neither of the two major candidates President Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are pursuing right now.  

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By MARTIN WISCKOL 
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THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

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Retired Orange County Superior Court Judge Jim Gray's national recognition as a drug-reform activist ratcheted up a notch last week, when he landed on the Libertarian Party presidential ticket.

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson got the expected nod as the Libertarian Party presidential nominee while Gray was confirmed as Johnson's running mate May 5 at the party's national convention in Las Vegas.

Retired Orange County Superior Court Judge Jim Gray speaks at the May 5 Libertarian Party convention, where he was named the party's vice presidential nominee.

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Newport Beach resident Gray, whom Johnson had previously mentioned as his preferred running mate, is hardly new to the political arena.

He ran as a Republican for the House of Representatives in 1998, losing in the primary as Bob Dornan advanced to the general but failed to win back his seat from Loretta Sanchez. Gray ran as a Libertarian for U.S. Senate in 2004 and helped lead the failed 2010 campaign for Proposition 19, which would have legalized marijuana for recreational use in California.

Johnson also supports legalized marijuana, but his differences from Mitt Romney and Barack Obama hardly end there. He attacks both for not being what they say they are – criticizing Romney's plan to cut the budget as unrealistic given his spending plans and criticizing Obama on civil liberties and involvement in Afghanistan.

Johnson dismissed suggestions that he could cost Romney the election.

"You know, all of those Romney supporters that are ardent marriage-equality advocates?" Johnson, who favors legalization of gay marriage, told the Daily Caller. "All those pot smokers that are for Romney? Nah, I don't buy it."

Tobacco money

Tobacco companies have pitched in more than $39 million to defeat Proposition 29, which would impose an additional $1 per pack cigarette tax, according to an analysis by non-partisan Maplight watchdog group. The new tax proceedings would go to research into and prevention of tobacco-related diseases,

Philip Morris alone has contributed $23.6 million so far, five times the $4.7 million total raised by measure proponents. Next comes R.J. Reynolds with $9.6 million. The top five contributors against Prop. 29 are tobacco companies. No. 6 is the California Republican Party, which has given $695,000. Americans for Tax Reform and the California Chamber of Commerce also oppose the measure.

Top contributors supporting the measures are the American Cancer Society ($1.6 million) and the Lance Armstrong Foundation ($1.5 million). Other proponents include the California Medical Association and the California State PTA.

Gay marriage poll

President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he now supports gay marriage but added that it should be up to the individual states. That stops short of the federal gay marriage preferred by the vast majority of Democrats surveyed in a new OC Political Pulse poll.

Among the 130 county Democrat respondents, 88 percent would prefer gay marriage be enacted on the federal level and another 4 percent wanted civil unions – rather than marriages – on the federal level. Just 5 percent shared Obama's position that states should take responsibility and perform same-sex marriages.

Republicans take a far different view. Of the 220 Republicans surveyed, only 4 percent of wanted to see gay marriage on a federal level.

Forty-nine percent of GOP respondents said gay couples should not have the same legal rights as man-woman married couples, while 28 percent approved of civil unions on a state-by-state basis.

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A Look at Libertarian Party Nominees Gary Johnson, Jim Gray

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The Libertarians selected former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson for President, and retiredjudge James Gray of California for Vice President.

Retired OC judge named to Libertarian presidential ticket

Retired OC judge named to Libertarian presidential ticket
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LIBERTARIAN GARY JOHNSON TAPS JUDGE JIM GRAY FOR VP

Libertarian Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson announced his pick for V.P. -- Judge Jim Gray. As The Daily Caller reports:

Libertarian presidential candidate and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson has picked California Judge Jim Gray, a prominent pro-marijuana legalization advocate, to be his running mate, The Daily Caller has learned.

The decision to run with Gray "puts pot front-and-center in the campaign," one Johnson adviser told TheDC, before adding that Johnson's opposition to the war in Afghanistan will likely remain the campaign's defining issue.

But Jim Gray is no pothead; he's serious, conservative minded libertarian who has never used illegal drugs. His arguments aren't frivolous.

I interviewed Jim Gary a couple of years ago. Here's part of the that interview -- decide for yourself.

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Three man presidential race now more interesting with Libertarian nominee

Three man presidential race now more interesting with Libertarian nominee
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Libertarians Nominate Judge Jim Gray for Vice-President Uncovered Politics By Austin Cassidy on May 5, 2012 With nearly 60% of the vote on the first ballot, former Superior Court Judge and marijuana legalization activist Jim Gray has been selected by the Libertarian Party as Gary Johnson's running mate.

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Latin American countries pursue alternatives to US drug war Washington Post BOGOTA, Colombia — When President Obama arrives in Colombia for a hemispheric summit this weekend, he will hear Latin American leaders say that the US-orchestrated war on drugs, which criminalizes drug use and employs military tactics to fight gangs, ... See all stories on this topic »

VIDEO: Drug war policy an important topic for Summit of the Americas Florida Independent By Marcos Restrepo | 04.10.12 | 11:25 am Another Latin American president has called for a conversation about the US-sponsored war on drugs during the sixth Summit of the Americas, which takes place next week in Cartagena, Colombia. See all stories on this topic » Summit of the Americas may by a turning point in the war on drugs CBS News (Credit: AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) (CBS News) No place on Earth has seen the bad end of the war on drugs more so than Latin America, where drug gangs flourish and bystanders are murdered by the tens of thousands. A lot of the drug war-related suffering in ... See all stories on this topic » CBS News

VIDEO: Colombia President Santos calls for new look at War on Drugs The Colorado Independent By Marcos Restrepo Another Latin American president has called for a conversation about the US-sponsored war on drugs during the sixth Summit of the Americas, which takes place next week in Cartagena, Colombia. Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos ... See all stories on this topic »

Miami-Dade TNT Unit Loses the War on Drugs and Liberty City's Trust Miami New Times Santa's Helper, they say, is a perfect illustration of how a unit with a history of corruption — and a mound of complaints about excessive force — has lost the War on Drugs. In recent years, three officers who worked with TNT, but not assigned to the ... See all stories on this topic »

EPA's war on property rights Daily Caller By Paul H. Jossey "War," as political metaphor, is most often a tasteless accessory that demeans the term to those who have actually experienced it ("war on poverty," "war on drugs"). But to the extent it connotes a full-fledged attempt to subjugate a ... See all stories on this topic »

Opinion: Obama Legalize Drugs or Turn Back Drug War at Colombia Summit Democratic Underground With the US-led drug war into its fourth decade, the leaders of South and Latin America are demanding change and reform from the largest importer of drugs in the hemisphere and the mightiest enforcer of drug prohibition. Despite the growing influence ... See all stories on this topic »

DRUG WAR: 2 of Latin America's deadliest gangs reportedly join forces San Gabriel Valley Tribune 2010, the Guatemalan military declared a month long state of siege in Alta Verapaz in hopes of reclaiming cities that have been taken over by Mexico's Zetas drug gang. Guatemalan authorities say they have begun to see new and disturbing evidence of an ... See all stories on this topic »

Why Wall Street loves the War on Drugs San Francisco Bay Guardian Here's what make it worse: I don't think anyone at Goldman Sachs talked to the White House about this, but the 1 percent clearly have a lot to gain from the drug war. And it has nothing to do withdrugs. Let's be logical here. There's only one possible ... See all stories on this topic »