L.A. Times
"If we endorse Proposition 19 and take a courageous position to support reform, just as we took courageous positions on same-sex marriage and other contentious issues, we will win the moral argument, we will win Proposition 19 and we will win races in November," Cruickshank said. (Cruickshank is the public policy director for the Courage Campaign, an organization that lobbies for progressive causes.)
I think it can be safely said that few Democrats currently in office or currently seeking office choose courageous or morally just positions on issue after issue that concern the well-being and personal freedom of American citizens.
The party's executive board, which includes elected officials and party representatives from across the state, voted 101 to 85 against an endorsement. But the Democrats, despite taking a cautious stance, appeared solidly behind the initiative, cheering and whooping much more raucously for the pro-endorsement speakers.
Dan Rush, an official with Local 5 of the United Food and Commercial Workers, who is running the legalization campaign's labor outreach, said an endorsement would have been a "great boost" but that a neutral position was still a victory. "We could have gotten a resounding no," he said.
In other words, Democratic politicians must be forced to do the right thing by the people at the ballot box. People of California, are you ready to show them the way to peace after the drug war?
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