The DA in Cincinnati has come out and said marijuana legalization is inevitable. He’s even teamed up with Oscar Robertson (yes, THAT NBA legend) to promote the initiative. Big O is involved with a company that wants to set up a grow operation on the east side of town.
Pot and pork, what a combo 
“This former Trump adviser always seems to be popping up in the here and now saying things that are helpful to Trump”
@NCSteve, Bingo! My thoughts exactly… And he was fired no less. Makes one wonder if Trump buys off his ex-campaign managers like he does his ex-wives- with a lucrative bye-bye package contingent on a continuing working arrangement to say only good things about the Donald.
Dope and gambling, the Kasich success model!
Isn’t Ohio the one with the phony pot initiative floating around though, the one where if enacted it would basically grant a monopoly to a bunch of initiative backers?
If you want marijuana to pass in Ohio, vote no on Issue 2 and yes on Issue 3.
https://lintvwdtn.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/ballot-sample-1.pdf
http://www.fox19.com/story/30357571/ohio-issue-2-and-issue-3-will-be-on-the-nov-3-ballot
Yep, I think you’re right about that. It reduces the grower or sellers to 10 major hubs for lack of a better word. That’s my understanding. So essentially it does make it a monopolistic endeavor.
Issue 3 also allows private cultivation.
Lovely. So instead of Poison Pill Amendments, now they’re throwing in Poison Pill Initiatives.
The Ohio miracle…
Someone’s keeping the state very dry before the vote…
Interesting line on Ballotpedia in regards to these two initiatives…
According to Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, Issue 2 would invalidate Issue 3 if both were to pass, a claim denied by the amendment’s supporters.
Looks like in the event of that happening, all parties will end up in court.
Trying to gather meaning from the garble of babble Kasich stammered about drugs before moving on to a less important point last evening, it’s clear, to me, he was referring and giving the back of his hand to Ohio’s devastating and still largely unrecognized heroin disaster not the marijuana ballot initiative.
Roger Stone?? He was a Nixon man. He is a reptilian liar. Anything he says is crap.
Treat him like the boy who cried “wolf”!
If my own personal memory serves ole Roger had made got into this ta do before. Doesn’t seem like ole Roger Stone has lived a full life of interesting things he needs to keep track of.
At the same time it illustrates just how far this and dramatically intertwined the GOP soap opera is - heck even 'fresh faced Rudy 9u11iani there served in the Nixon era
Most of the people working for Reagan in 1976 were probably not pot smokers.
Funny how this guy turns up every time Trump may have a challenger coming up on him. Also, John Kasich was 24 in 1976. That he may have smoked pot doesn’t seem like any big revelation. It was 1976 and he was 24. That means he began college in the late '60s. I hear people smoked pot in college back then, but I may be wrong. Lastly, I’m the last to criticise anybody for the way he looks, but why would you believe anything from a guy who looks like Stone?
In '76? I’d bet real money that at least 45% of the people under 30 in even Reagan’s campaign against Gerry Ford were pot smokers.
So? Who cares? Whatever he and his wife get up to is none of my business.
Don’t care if the Reagan campaign was doing drugs… even though Republicans were demonizing minorities and Democrats for doing it at the time. What’s interesting is that the accusation is dealing. It’s the same sort of criminal conduct we have come to associate with public equity guys and Wall Street short traders.
As the saying goes, where there is smoke there is usually fire…someplace. Squeaky clean conservative, family values guy John Kaisch has clouds growing over his campaign. It may not be about the usual sex scandal. But the warning flags are flying. These uptight, holier than thou Christian Wrong types are usually found to be hiding something corrupt.
I’m thinking it might be something about money. That would be the most damning thing with the electorate right now. The middle class will not tolerate a candidate who made money corrupting others to line his own pockets.
Trump and Christie will be all over this I’m sure. Didn’t we just know that greed would get most of the GOP sooner or later?
Yikes…I learn more from the comments section of TPM than any gossip site. One of the reasons I wouldn’t miss it…
The accusation is dealing. If Johnny needed money, shouldn’t he as a conservative worked hard at two or three part time jobs to get it? His possible association with the mob just like Christie can’t be overlooked either.