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- novenator, on 05/23/2009, -4/+114FTA - "Pawlenty, who in 2008 set an apparent single-year record for most vetoes by a Minnesota governor...also signed a bill late Thursday that allows police to pull over drivers solely because they or their passengers are not wearing seat belts."
This guy, an early McCain supporter and huge neocon, is on a fast track to irrelevance in American political leadership. Minnesota is a progressive state who was one of the last to redact 70's laws legalizing carrying quantities of marijuana after the conservative 'Reagan revolution' in 1980, but has a regressive governor now, who believes that cannabis is a dangerous gateway drug. - voluntarist, on 05/23/2009, -2/+94Minnesota was better off with Ventura.
- Maddoktor2, on 05/23/2009, -5/+85Minnesotans, Pawlenty cares about the GOP more than you who elected him to represent you.
You know what to do next election. - highlymodified, on 05/23/2009, -3/+59Even if you don't like the idea of recreational use, anyone can see that medical marijuana has use in some people.
When you see a 90-lbs cancer patient eating for the first time in days, you know this isn't just about getting high.
***** PAWLENTY. With a pen stroke, he just ensured unnecessary suffering for thousands of his constituents. What an *****. - BoneheadFarker, on 05/23/2009, -3/+51I propose a new law allowing terminally ill patients to take as much of any drug they wish. Want to smoke pot? Go for it. Want to drop acid and watch Fantasia? Go on and enjoy yourself. Want to snort coke off a strippers ass while drunk as a skunk? Be my guess. You don't have long anyways, so you might as well enjoy yourself. Do whatever the ***** you want, and don't let anyone tell you to stop...
- normlsparky, on 05/23/2009, -6/+48"Pawlenty, who in 2008 set an apparent single-year record for most vetoes by a Minnesota governor..."
From the party of NO. - BBE1965, on 05/23/2009, -5/+46He said he was going to veto, but it is still disappointing that he did.
- timschuit, on 05/23/2009, -7/+45What a piece of *****.
I feel sick thinking that a ***** like him is able to affect what TERMINALLY ILL people do with THEIR OWN BODIES.
***** him. I hope he contracts a terminal illness and is denied medical treatment. - novenator, on 05/23/2009, -3/+39Agreed. Leaders who fail to change with the times will no longer be leaders.
- niradg, on 05/23/2009, -4/+37Pawlenty's last 6 months have been a lesson in how to throw away your political career.
- inactive, on 05/23/2009, -6/+35***** the government!!
I agree, that we want labels in the products we buy, like cigarettes and alcohol, telling us they are dangerous for our health. Like medicines, and even food. But it is our choice to take it or not! We dont want a parental governmente, we are not children (or are we?). - inactive, on 05/23/2009, -1/+27He says he is "sympathetic to those dealing with end-of-life illnesses."
You're so full of ***** you dirtbag. - feignNU, on 05/23/2009, -2/+26FTA:
"He said that while he was "sympathetic to those dealing with end-of-life illnesses," he felt marijuana poses "serious public safety and health risks.""
Like what? It's fine that he "feels" this way, but his feelings really have absolutely no place in setting public policy. - borez, on 05/23/2009, -4/+25Well then Gov. Tim Pawlenty is a ***** dick.
- isaaccs, on 05/23/2009, -0/+18Terminally ill patients smoking pot: Serious threat to public safety. Veto.
Law allowing residents of MN to carry concealed firearms: Absolutely supports.
You have be delusional to buy the argument that he opposes medical marijuana on the basis of a public safety threat. There is no argument: Guns have killed hundreds of millions of people and continue to. Pot has never killed anyone. He vetoes approved legislation on the former and publicly promotes the latter. Despicable. - PilotHead, on 05/23/2009, -2/+20"He said that while he was "sympathetic to those dealing with end-of-life illnesses," he felt marijuana poses "serious public safety and health risks."
Yet you're more then happy to allow pills that do far worst? The one's that is easy to OD on? That are habit forming? The ones that give you a paralyzing high? The ones that American suburban moms are most likely to get addicted too?The ones that make you're state more money?
Don't give me any emotional bull crap, the only emotional you get are tears of joy when you get you're money from pharmaceutical companies. - Kruse, on 05/23/2009, -5/+22Pawlenty is a tool.
- gemlarin, on 05/23/2009, -2/+19Minnesota, America calls on you to vote this dick out of office come election day.
- inactive, on 05/23/2009, -0/+16"..he felt marijuana poses "serious public safety and health risks.""
And how exactly did he deduce that? - Nallohki, on 05/23/2009, -1/+16I feel sick that a ***** like him is able to tell ANY SUBSET of us what to do WITH OUR BODIES.
And yet, we allow the government to do this. I don't get it - you either have freedom, or you don't. This halfway stuff just makes me cranky. - Frankyfan3, on 05/23/2009, -2/+17.... even after they added language which only authorized TERMINALLY ILL patients legal access.
So, he doesn't think dying people should be able to use the medicine of they & their doctor's choice?
Tell that to Joni Whiting, whose daughter Stephanie gained some comfort and the ability to eat from medical marijuana during the last months of her doomed struggle with melanoma. Pawlenty thinks it’s just fine to treat Joni, Stephanie, and others in that dreadful situation as common criminals. - zbeast, on 05/23/2009, -1/+14Sounds like it's time to vote him out of office.
I say get rid of big daddy. - SpinningHead, on 05/23/2009, -2/+15***** the people who voted for guys like this.
- drukqs, on 05/23/2009, -1/+13true dat
- Samurai77, on 05/23/2009, -1/+12How is Marijuana more dangerous than the Opiates already prescribed?
Here's to not knowing ***** about ***** and making a decision anyway. - wreckosaurus, on 05/23/2009, -1/+12There are people (me) that don't smoke pot but support medical marijuana, you're a dick.
- tecratour, on 05/23/2009, -1/+12As a Minnesota Taxpayer..
***** Him. - thentro, on 05/23/2009, -2/+13I was a MN state house page when Pawlenty was the majority leader. The first day a Democrat made an objection to some part of a bill, and Pawlenty basically dismissed the criticism by calling the other guy fat. I thought, "wow, what a dick!"
Now he is Governor, and wants to be President. Ug. - Bartboy919, on 05/23/2009, -6/+17***** The GOP!
- Ashur420, on 05/23/2009, -0/+11As a Minnesotan i would like to say ***** Pawlenty. Minnesotans definitely need to get rid of this pile of worthless human life.
- oninbonin, on 05/23/2009, -3/+13he felt marijuana poses "serious public safety and health risks." Legalizing marijuana, even under limited conditions, "could serve to compound these problems," he wrote.
Like Alcohol which continues to be the leader in fatalities as compared to Marijuana and is legal..mmhmmm. - lyonsban, on 05/23/2009, -1/+11Sex leads to teenage pregnancy. Let's make sex illegal.
Hospital emergencies lead to speeding. Let's make getting sick illegal.
Your logic is not only flawed, but broken.
Coffee is a gateway drug, as is alcohol and let's face it everyone has done some stupid things after waking up with a coffee and having a few drinks after work. The most trouble I've seen a stoner in was loitering. - rodted2, on 05/23/2009, -1/+11Lived in MN from 1999 - 2003, I miss Jesse Ventura. He would have legalized it. While smoking on a fatty.
- inactive, on 05/24/2009, -0/+9I bet he gets some marijuana if he's dying from cancer
typical ***** - ProfessorRiffs, on 05/23/2009, -1/+10Let me tell about these things you can get called "clues".
- Westerhousen, on 05/23/2009, -8/+17ASS.
- feignNU, on 05/23/2009, -2/+11You have been blinded by your mindless judgments of other people. What is a "doper"? What is a "pothead"? Does supporting drug law reform make a person a pothead? Or is it only potheads who support drug law reform? I think if you would take a break for a moment from classifying everyone into groups so that you can more easily dismiss them, you would see that this is a complex and nuanced issue that effects people from all walks of life.
- reeds1999, on 05/24/2009, -0/+9The GOP is anti big government only when it affects big business
- irkalla, on 05/23/2009, -1/+10Any possibility of a veto override?
- RNEMESiS42, on 05/23/2009, -1/+10I live in Minneapolis, and I'm not surprised. Pawlenty has always sucked big time.
- mhearne, on 05/24/2009, -0/+8Terminal patients in hospice pretty much do get all the morphine they want, but that is more numbing than anything else.
Marijuana doesn't even have to be smoked, it can be made into tea, so that should alleviate any fears of oxygen explosions. It appears that our government plans to continue to legislate morality all the way to the deathbed.
Remember, these decisions are not being made by doctors, but by politicians who have little or no understanding of what these drugs actually do. - absurdist, on 05/24/2009, -0/+7Do you even bother to read the inane tripe you post?
- lalalalamppost, on 05/24/2009, -0/+7WHAT A ***** DOUCHEBAG.
- Koushiro, on 05/24/2009, -0/+7I can't wait to vote this ***** out of office.
- webster, on 05/23/2009, -4/+10Jerk.
- Shadic, on 05/23/2009, -1/+7You compare meth and crack to marijuana? It's a shame that ignorance is so easy.
- failtrain, on 05/23/2009, -3/+9That's funny, I could have sworn it meant:
"I'm a poli'*****'tician, and I'll do whatever I god damn like with reckless abandon, including but not limited to, preventing ill people from potentially having medication that could help them." - azbmr, on 05/23/2009, -2/+8Don't feed the troll, just report. http://digg.com/users/Me098
- MrColdheart, on 05/23/2009, -7/+12For anyone that doesn't know, Veto is latin for "I forbid"
- Anightowl, on 05/24/2009, -1/+6Yeah, I've seen footage of Ventura supporting any medicine that will help. Good man. Whadda ya say, President Ventura, 2012?
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