Well in a situation that shows how much that Republican Tea Party candidates are total hypocrites, one of their own was recently busted up in Washington DC buying an 8-ball of cocaine from undercover agents. On October 29 Florida Republican Rep. Henry "Trey" Radel agreed to meet with men whom he thought were going to sell him cocaine for $250, but once the sale was made they revealed that they were actually undercover agents with the Drug Enforcement Agency. Today Rep. Radel showed up in DC Superior Court today and pleaded guilty to his misdemeanor crime and was sentenced to one year of probation, and he also stated that we was going to enter a drug rehabilitation program in his home state in Florida.
Now I’m not one to come down on someone who is doing a little bit of coke in their free time, even if he is a member of congress. The problem here is that this guy is a complete hypocrite; he won his election promoting the Tea Party platform and their agenda of racism and anti-drug policies. He has opposed and argued against any measures of making medical marijuana legal whether in the State of Florida or the nation as a whole, all while keeping up his fake clean cut image of the white right wing Christian Obama hating family man that conservatives love so much.
Many people are now calling for his resignation and I’m reluctant to join them because I don’t feel like crucifying anyone for a little weekend drug use, if he is able to perform his duties I feel a person should be able to unwind whether its smoking a blunt or doing a few lines or getting some lap dances at Mons Venus in Tampa. However this guy is one of the people who have been opposed to our cause from the start, and he is not the only one out there standing in our way.
I have several friends now who constantly smoke weed and do other drugs but will then argue that we shouldn’t legalize it in the state of Florida, and they will say this with a joint burning in their hand! I try to point out the irony in their statement but it doesn’t seem to register at home, some of them I know oppose it because if weed was cheap and legal that would cut out their major source of income!
However I like most pot smoking Floridians are tired of all the crap you have to go through just to get some weed, and dream of a day when we can just go down to the corner store and pick up a few blunts and not just the wraps. It will be interesting to see the fallout Rep. Henry "Trey" Radel gets from his arrest, I’m sure the Teabaggers are not going to be happy with him. The last thing I’m going to say about this is $250 for an 8-ball of coke? Either DC prices are very expensive or this dude was getting seriously ripped off!
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