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4 out of top 5 precincts that voted for Prop 19 are in Ocean Beach.

   November 13, 2010  11 Comments on 4 out of top 5 precincts that voted for Prop 19 are in Ocean Beach. 0 Likes 708 Views

Thanks to the paper-version of the San Diego U-T this morning, we have the grateful news that in the vote for Prop 19 – the marijuana legalization proposition that was narrowly defeated state-wide – four of the top 5 precincts that voted in favor – were in Ocean Beach.  (Ed.: we apologize about the quality of the following scan – as we did have to use the paper version; there was no similar article/ graphic in the U-T‘s online platform.)

Prop 19 map

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Author: Frank Gormlie
A former lawyer and current grassroots activist, I have been editing the Rag since Patty Jones and I launched it in Oct 2007. Way back during the Dinosaurs in 1970, I founded the original Ocean Beach People’s Rag - OB’s famous underground newspaper -, and then later during the early Eighties, published The Whole Damn Pie Shop, a progressive alternative to the Reader.
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11 thoughts on “4 out of top 5 precincts that voted for Prop 19 are in Ocean Beach.”

  1. If one looks at the map of where it failed, one sees 2 constituencies which it did not carry: people of color and lower incomes and right-wing reactionaries. While the latter group is assumed to be too inflexible to be swayed by the waste of resources that prohibition perpetrates, I’d bet that the former group were not told about how prohibition is inequitably applied to the young men of their communities in their own languages. The latter tact will be the way that decriminalization will get more voters in 2012.

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    1. Ken, I absolutely agree with you on this. I recently read a book that equates the war on drugs to the “New Jim Crow”. That fact that poor whites get caught up in it just helps their case that the war on drugs is not discriminatory.

      If we educate these people in their own languages, like you said, that would help the cause immensely.

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        3. Sure!
          From the San Diego County Library System

          The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness / Michelle Alexander.
          New York : New Press ; [Jackson, Tenn.] : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2010.

          Description: 290 p.
          Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references ( p. [249]-279) and index.
          Summary: Argues that the War on Drugs and policies that deny convicted felons equal access to employment, housing, education, and public benefits create a permanent under caste based largely on race.
          Contents: The rebirth of caste — The lockdown — The color of justice — The cruel hand — The new Jim Crow — The fire this time.
          Subject: African American prisoners — United States.
          Race discrimination — United States.
          Criminal justice, Administration of — United States.
          United States — Race relations.
          ISBN 9781595581037

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          1. I just noticed that Anna beat me to the punch, and that East Count Magazine beat me to the review. I will have to write mine before I read theirs.

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  2. That’s my town!
    I’m just sorry NOBODY will be able to get weed anymore. (holding back laughter)
    Guess they showed us… huh.

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  3. Kind of makes me all the prouder of OB.. Another feather in our cap. I’ll be sure to brag about this at cocktail parties.

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  4. Fascinating data. We all knew OB was forward-thinking, and now we have statistical proof.

    I must say this is the first time I’ve had the urge to frame a Union-Tribune graphic.

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