DRUG POLICY NOT CANDIDATE'S ONLY ISSUE

Dear Editor: In response to "Drugs aren't Libertarians' top issue"
[letters, Oct. 20], I'd like to invite all of your readers to take
the time and investigate the claims made by the media that my
campaign for governor is about drug policy reform and nothing else.

Drug policy reform is a sexy, controversial topic that helps to sell
lots of newspapers and gets more people to tune in to the 6 o'clock
news. I freely admit it is a very important issue to me and thousands
of other Alabamians, but it is far from my only issue.

Most of the other issues the writer mentioned are planks in my
platform that have not been reported on by the media.

For instance, my other planks include states' rights, non-compliance
with the Patriot and REAL I.D. acts, calling for the Alabama National
Guard troops to be returned home, no gun control laws, a check-box
style governing system, legal lottery and casino gambling run by
private enterprise, initiative and referendum, ballot access reform,
privatizing public schools, lifting restrictions on distilleries that
produce wood and grain alcohol and encouraging increased production
of bio-diesel so that Alabama families might produce their own fuel
or start community co-ops for that purpose.

Loretta Nall

Alexander City