The supporters of Prop 200 have raised six times as much money as opponents.
Don’t Handcuff Tucson, the political committee that is urging voters to reject the Public Safety First Initiative on the Nov. 3 ballot, had raised $58,137 as of Oct. 14, according to a campaign finance report filed today.
As we noted earlier today, the Public Safety First committee had raised $360K.
Don’t Handcuff Tucson had raised most of its funding—$44,842—between Sept. 22 and Oct. 14. The committee had about $20,000 in the bank at the end of the reporting period.
Among the major contributors to Don’t Handcuff Tucson: The Arizona Multihousing Association ($10,000), the United Food and Commercial Workers Union ($5,000) and legendary land speculator Don Diamond ($1,000).
You can check out the report yourself: Handcuff.pdf
This article appears in Oct 22-28, 2009.
When is enough cops enough? When is enough prisons enough? When is enough laws enough? Answer: NEVER! If this modus operandi worked, then dictatorships would never falter and beaten children would be much happier. Hopefully the day will arrive, soon, when Americans, the World, our species will muster the courage, minus the punitive confusion brought about buy fake god(s), and become responsible for actively embracing prevention. But that would require admitting charity serves the powerful, not the marginalized and that charity itself is a symptom of a corrupt and decadent society, of which, “good Christians” could never suffer that level of truthful introspection.
A species that vigorously feeds on punishment and not compassion totally supported buy ALL 191 nations punitive legal systems. I submit Earthlings are to fearful to love and it is much easier and simpler to blame & punish the disenfranchised. When will our fake god(s) ever become merciful and gives us a spine for justice minus the lash.
I agree the number of people we have in prison in this country is criminal! It is time we truly rehabilitate the prisoners we can so they never want to and never do go back to jail. However, some people are true POS’s (repeat murderers and child molesters) and need to be executed so let’s go from it being cruel and unusual to just cruel and usual punishment. Also, were broke and we cannot afford to keep going down this road of having a ton of people in prison for small things like marijuana charges which should be a civil misdemeanor (read politicians more money for you). Additionally with with the money saved by not having too many people in jail we could hire back a lot of our teachers which in the long run will help keep people out of jail. Just my 2 cents