LIMIT GOVERNMENT, NOT LIBERTY

The Local Congressman's Changed Stance on Medical Marijuana Supports
Justice, a Constituent Writes.

Editor,

I was very pleased to learn Congressman Jerry McNerney has changed
his position on Proposition 215 (California's medical marijuana
initiative) and supports liberty and justice for all in the 11th
Congressional District.

This is in stark contrast to challenger Dean Andal, who not only
fails to defend liberty and justice for all in the 11th District but
also betrays California's democracy by siding with the federal
government against our state's democratic process. Andal's belief
that Californians are too stupid to make their own decisions by
calling for the federal government to destroy honest citizens
faithfully working within the system speaks volumes about his version
of limited government.

Can the Congressional challenger tell us what gives the federal
government authority to override Proposition 215 when the 10th
Amendment says, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the
states respectively, or to the people"?

Can Andal explain how providing gangsters with the sole profitable
medical marijuana distributorship in Stockton reduces crime in that
city? Will he cite "deterrence" while our overflowing prisons prove
him false? Unquestioning support for bankrupt and failed solutions
calls Andal's legislative competence into question. Limit government,
not liberty.

Glenn White, Dublin