Hello, and thank you to all the members of the members of the Mighty Corrente Building for allowing me to stop by. I crossposted this at my blog, ScaryShit. I worked for the Marijuana campaign in Nevada last year, and our opposition engaged in some mighty nasty shenanigans. Public and elected officials have every right in the world to share their views on any and all topics. That's free speech. They DO NOT have the right to campaign against an initiative while on the clock and the taxpayer's dime. Enjoy!

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I had these pictures at the top of this blog post, but they just disappeared. They add quite a bit of value to this post. The first pair of pictures is the first C&E (Contributions and Expenditures) form for The Committee to Keep Nevada Respectable (TCTKNR) of 2006 and a google search for the address listed on the form. Las Vegas Metro Police Department's Lieutenant Stan Olsen filed the form, and listed the offices of Las Vegas Metro for the address of The Committee to Keep Nevada Respectable. This is illegal. The judge did not address this in our lawsuit against the Clark County Commission, members of the University of Nevada Board of Regents (their vote was spearheaded by Metro Officer Stavros Anthony, Ph.D., who recently was accused of using his badge to get "freebies," another "class act" against marijuana regulation), Washoe County District Attorney Dick Gamick, and LVMPD's Lieutenant Stan Olsen.

The second pair of pictures show the fourth and final C&E report for the year for TCTKNR, and the address of Sig Rogich's Rogich Communications. By this time in the campaign, Sig Rogich, (a big time Republican consultant. He is the man in Nevada, ran Gibbons' campaign, former Gov. Guinn's, casinos, developers, etc. He was head of advertising for Reagan's 1984 "Morning in America" campaign. He came up with the idea for the Dukakis in a tank ad for GHWB. He was going to work for GWB, but scandal [Sig's titty bar zoning changes votes from City Council members whom Sig had supported], cut that short.) was heading up the opposition campaign. (Rogich also very much involved in the Nevada gubernatorial race sexual weirdness Jim Gibbons and Chrissy Mazzeo, which I covered here).

I worked for the Committee to Regulate Marijuana. We sought an emergency injunction against this group of public officials, as they were using the trappings of their office to campaign against the initiative. Republican Senator John Ensign and Republican Congressman Jon Porter were also against our initiative. The third group of pictures deal with Ensign and Porter and TCTKNR. Ensign and Porter both sent letters of support to TCTKNR, which were prominently displayed on the "Nevada Says No" Web site (and, if I recall correctly, were used in the mailers sent to voters by NCTKNR. Not sure, need to see a mailer). Any mention of Ensign or Porter has been scrubbed from the TCTKNR Web site (other than the angry letters from the "pot supporters"). I found this archive of the site with the WayBack machine.

Porter and Ensign were both "vulnerable" Republican incumbents. This is from an LV-RJ article hosted at MPP:

Rep. Henry Waxman of California is asking the Bush administration for more information about what he said appear to be politicized visits by federal officials during the 2006 election season. Included are trips made by national drug czar John Walters to Nevada to meet with now Gov. Jim Gibbons and Rep. Jon Porter, R-Nev., and to speak against a state marijuana legalization ballot measure.

Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is seeking information and congressional hearings about the visits.

In a letter dated Tuesday to Walters, Waxman said he wants to know more about "efforts by White House officials to direct you or other officials in the Office of National Drug Control Policy to travel at taxpayer expense to events with Republican candidates for political office."

Digby wrote this post about Karl Rove stepping down, and speculated it may have to do with Hatch Act violations. Well, I can tell you, as someone who witnessed it first hand. The sitting regime worked in coordination to defeat a legal ballot initiative, brought forward by the people of the state of Nevada. I know a lot of you guys don't care, you might say "Oh, it's just for a bunch of dumbass potsmokers. Who cares?" Well you should care. It was a ballot measure this time. It's candidates next time.

"We obviously disagree with it," said Neal Levine, campaign manager of the marijuana committee, said of Wall's decision. "Essentially what the judge ruled was a public body could take a position on a candidate."

P.S. ChicagoDyke, at Corrente, had this to say about my earlier post:

I’m very frustrated right now, because I’m not sure how citizens can bring back the notion of “The Rule of Law” when the leadership of both parties seem so disinterested in it. The more I think on it, the more it’s a no brainer. Everyone has the right to avocate for their positions and be a part of the political process. But government officials are supposed to be working for everyone, and when they are in uniform/on the clock, they should remain politically neutral and enforce and uphold the law equally. Is that really such a crazy idea?

Clearly, it has become so. The more times I reread Matt’s post and links, the more it becomes clear to me that a criminal gang of hypocrites and thugs, with incestuous financial relationships that transcend party, are running governments high and low. This is the model of governance that Bush has made the standard over the last seven years. And the Democrats don’t seem to have any problem with that.

This stuff is very important, guys. Please help me to spread the word, please link to these posts, more people need to see what is happening.

pps-Nevada is also one of the fired US attorney states. Nevada's Bogden may have been investigating Jim Gibbons, hell-who knows, maybe he was looking into this whole mess. Do you now see why I am so pissed off at the Democrats for not pushing harder on the investigations?!?!