Reply #300: welcome to DU [View All]

I remember once being at a local fundraiser for our candidate for county sheriff. This is GOP territory, and we had no chance of winning.
Anyway, our candidate gets up and gives his speech. We all clap. Then he criticizes the GOP incumbent for not prosecuting low level pot offenses in the three cities in our county. Our jail was being underutilized. "If I'm elected, I will fill our jails with pot users!" I booed him. There were only about 40 people there, and I booed him. I was wearing a tye dye dead shirt at the time.

Afterword I was talking to his wife, who was the real politician in there family, and she cheered my courage. "We wouldn't be so fucked as a party if more people made their voices heard." She said. I ran for office the next year.

Anyway, welcome to DU...