Big Alcohol's decision to squash marijuana law reform to protect its bottom line is simply politics as usual. Given that the alcohol industry now has influence groups in all 50 states and that its federal lobbying arm, the National Beer Wholesalers Association, ranks among the top financial donators on Capitol Hill, it's clear that this latest political salvo won't be the last either. |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)