Andrew Cuomo calls for decriminalization of marijuana

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http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/04/justice/new-york-marijuana/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Cuomo=HP

you cereal bro?

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This guy really is a textbook New Democrat, isn't he? Continually sell out left-wing economic principles and get American liberals by being on the forefront on social issues. He's very impressive.

that's a very strange revisionist take on the DLC wing of the party...

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Still doesn't change the fact that he's just the equivalent of a standard European conservative.

Someone has no clue about New York or Cuomo!

He didn't mention anything about the political spectrum in New York or Cuomo's place in it.

So what? He is wrong.

I care more about aid to homeless children than the right to smoke a joint. He's a socially liberal Chris Christie.

for a lot of people being arrested for marijuana has been a de-facto death sentence. what about all the people that have been sent to prison and subsequently got aids from being raped or were otherwise fatally assaulted by in mates? or all the people whose homes have been wrongly targeted by drug enforcement and subsequently shot by them? or people killed in the crossfire? this isn't just some issue that effects stoners, if it was i wouldn't really give a sh**t.

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Still doesn't change the fact that he's just the equivalent of a standard European conservative.

Someone has no clue about New York or Cuomo!

He didn't mention anything about the political spectrum in New York or Cuomo's place in it.

So what? He is wrong.

Don't be so rigid Napoleon- I'm with you on this one my friend but who knows what is "right" and "wrong"

I know what is right or wrong. Comparing Cuomo to European Conservatives is wrong.

that is one of the more bizarre memes i have read on this forum in all honesty...

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Yeah, I care about the kids whose parents got locked up for the dumbest reason ever.

how many people are homeless at a given moment anyway? not to trivialize it but i'd wager that the amount of people arrested for this is probably a lot higher.

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This guy really is a textbook New Democrat, isn't he? Continually sell out left-wing economic principles and get American liberals by being on the forefront on social issues. He's very impressive.

that's a very strange revisionist take on the DLC wing of the party...

Yeah, their main schtick was supporting the death penalty and being "tough on crime."  Bizarre forum caricature of Cuomo is more like the Gary Hart/Jerry Brown "New Democrats."  Of course I fail to see how a minor tax cut while raising rates for high-income individuals in the highest-tax state in the country makes one a "conservative."

not only that but a lot of new democrats tended to be very pro censorship, think clinton (take your pick), tipper gore, lieberman, etc.