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Critics are saying a new bill introduced into the Texas Legislature this year will only encourage a bounty-hunting trend that targets drag queens and transgender people. Texas state GOP Rep. Steve Toth filed House Bill 4378 on Thursday, March 9 that will allow anyone in Texas to sue people who perform in drag or host a drag performance where children are present.
The bill targets events like family-friendly brunch shows at restaurants or drag queen story time events at libraries or other family-oriented drag queen events. The bill says that people who sue a person or venue can be awarded $5,000 in damages.
Erin Reed, a transgender rights activist and independent reporter, tweeted about HB 4378 on Saturday, March 11, saying that the piece of legislation could easily be used to target transgender people who perform.
The bill defines drag as "a performance in which a performer exhibits a gender that is different than the performer’s gender recorded at birth." It goes on to say this performance can involve using makeup and clothing to dance, lip sync, or perform "in a lascivious manner."
The bill joins 17 other proposed pieces of Texas legislation that targets transgender people, drag queens, and the LGBTQ+ community. The Advocate reported in November 2022 that Texas legislators have proposed anti-LGBTQ+ bills for the upcoming legislative session. This now includes HB 4378 and the recent heterosexual tax cut bill from state Rep. Bryan Slaton.
That proposed bill would provide massive tax cuts, up to 100%, for straight families that stay married and have children. Slaton also pushed a bill that would have outlawed minors at drag shows.
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From “‘Drag is so Healing’: Austin’s Queens Won’t Back Down” by Digital Editor Kit O'Connell, originally published in the September/October issue of Texas Observer magazine. Photography by Cindy Elizabeth:
In an orange prison jumpsuit and chains, a tall, lean drag queen writhed to a cover of “War Pigs” by Brass Against, which sounds like someone swapped Black Sabbath’s lead singer for a woman and added a highly caffeinated marching band. As she lip-synced, Hermajestie the Hung completed a dramatic strip tease down to an army fatigue jacket and fishnets, all to riotous cheers and a rain of dollar bills.
It’s April at the Swan Dive on Red River in Austin’s club district, where “Tuesgayz” night LGBTQ+ gatherings—which include “Queereoke” sing-along sessions—are a tradition. For over a year, the Black-led drag troupe Vanguard, with an informal membership of about a dozen performers that includes both drag kings and queens, has opened each show with the same invocation:
“On our stage we proudly proclaim that Black lives matter, trans rights are human rights, no human is illegal, all bodies are beautiful, and my body, my choice.”
Hermajestie—who described herself as a “postbinary, polyamorous, pansexual pot-smoking parent” and goes by “any pronouns but he/him”—explained later that she started each night the same way because she “realized that once I mention these things, the trash usually takes itself out.”
(We are using performers’ stage names in this article to protect their privacy.)
Vanguard, she explained, serves as a “declaration and celebration of queer freedom, queer love, queer existence and queer solidarity.” The space she has created is often politically charged. Each night, she recounts the latest legislative attacks on queer rights, urging her audience to get involved. Tuesday’s routine culminated in her holding aloft the severed head of former President Donald Trump and hurling it into the audience (a similar stunt that earned comedian Kathy Griffin public censure shortly after Trump’s election).
The members of Vanguard represent an evolution in drag. While elder performers were often cisgender, gay men, many of today’s queens are transgender or nonbinary and explore their identity through the art form.
Austin’s drag scene is thriving: From the heart of downtown to the Hill Country, patrons can attend events every day of the week, including late-night revues and brunches on weekends. One monthly show highlights new, amateur queens, another the elders of the community. Drag has made inroads in non-LGBTQ+ spaces as well—queens frequently perform at birthday parties, fundraisers, and, last year, at a new student orientation at the University of Texas at Austin.
At the same time, drag is under attack. Senate Bill 12, scheduled to go into effect September 1, will levy fines against venues that host performances appealing to an ill-defined “prurient interest in sex” where minors are present; performers could also face up to a year in jail. The legislative affront goes hand-in-hand with protests and harassment from right-wing activists outside of nightclubs and on social media, where drag performers are frequently doxxed. While most performers remain defiant in the face of oppression, the growing pressure leaves them concerned for their future.
(Editor’s Note: As of September 18, 2023, SB 12 is under a temporary restraining order while a judge rules on a lawsuit led by the ACLU of Texas.)
Read more at the Texas Observer.
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The GOP would probably love to restrict voting just to white people over 55 who wear MAGA caps and attend Christian fundamentalist churches.
A Texas GOP state legislator wishes to ban public colleges and universities from serving as polling places. It just so happens that a large public university exists in her legislative district. 🤨
Republican Rep. Carrie Isaac recently introduced a bill which would ban polling locations at public universities.
This would make it more difficult for students to vote.
Isaac represents Hays County just south of Austin, where Texas State University is located.
While her bill would make it more difficult for college students to vote, Texas A&M Kingsville Associate Professor of political science Travis Braidwood said college campuses tend to have a lot of people live near them who aren't students.
"Potentially shutting them down anyway could also deprive other voters access to those voting places," he said. "It's really unfortunate. If anything, you want to expand the franchise of voting, not restrict it."
3NEWS received recent voting statistics from the Nueces County Clerk's Office that gave an account of the number of voters at area universities.
Last November, 2,364 people voted at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi while 3,204 voted at Del Mar College.
"So really, this raises the other question, if it isn't voter fraud, is this an attempt to suppress certain voters, particularly young voters?" Braidwood said.
Yep, it’s pretty blatant. Private universities (especially Christian ones) would not be covered by Rep. Isaac’s bill.
Assistant Professor of political science for TAMU-CC Sanne Rikhoff said that colleges have long been at the center of discussion when it comes to polling locations.
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Rikhoff said counties normally have the deciding say in where polling locations are placed.
"The counties are ultimately the ones who decide where polling places will be in an election. And most often they choose public places with good parking, availability. And also a space in which these elections can take place throughout early voting and election days," she said.
BTW, are you registered to vote?
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Voter registration is done by address. Every time you move you must register. Even if you just move down the street you must amend your voter registration.
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I imagine Baytown GOP House Rep. Briscoe Cain struggles a lot in his daily life, just with the routine challenges that come with being a miserable little yeehaw fucko, but I would love to hear how he came to file HB 521, a bill that would enable pregnant people, as the sole occupants of their vehicles, to use the HOV lane.
On the one hand: As a Republican and especially as a Baytown Republican who lives to serve the kings of oil and gas, Cain has a sworn duty to fuck the environment 50 ways from Sunday at every opportunity, so he surely can’t be happy supporting HOV lanes, which are for liberal snowflakes who hate Jesus so much that they are willing to do just one bare-minimum thing which makes their lives slightly easier and has the side benefit of potentially slowing the deterioration of earth into a fiery inferno?
But on the other hand, teh baybeeeez!??!?!
It’s gotta be a real dilemma for a dude already faced with picking out which big-boy hat he’s going to wear today.
The question of fetuses in HOV lanes, while not new, made news this summer when a Plano, TX woman contested a ticket claiming she had a right to drive in the multi-occupant lane. When the Dallas Morning News asked a state anti-abortion group for comment, they noted that the Texas Transportation Code does not explicitly consider a fetus a person (they believe the penal code does). Cain’s bill would amend the transportation code thusly:
Sec. 545.429. USE OF HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANE BY PREGNANT OPERATOR. An operator of a motor vehicle who is pregnant is entitled to use any high occupancy vehicle lane in this state regardless of whether the vehicle is occupied by a passenger other than the operator's unborn child.
I don’t know the extent to which this, if passed, is likely to shore up attempts to secure full fetal personhood in Texas or elsewhere, but I assume it’s what Cain has in mind. (I would also love to know how badly it pained Cain, or whatever lackey penned this thing, to use gender-neutral language in its construction. Shout out to all the ~ pregnant operators ~ out there.)
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School vouchers: bad idea!
Gov. Greg Abbott keeps spitting in the faces of what should be his most ardent constituency, the rural Republicans who vote overwhelmingly to keep the GOP governor in office.
That’s right. He continues to push for his school voucher plan that would take money from public school districts and give Texans the choice of sending their children to private schools.
Why is that such a spitter? Because…
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State Senator Angela Paxton: Texas Legislature passes largest property tax cut in Texas history
Friend,We finally did it! The Texas Legislature has passed the largest property tax cut in Texas history. Senate Bill 2 delivers $18 billion in property tax relief by buying down the school district tax rate, increasing the homestead exemption, and reforming the appraisal process. Senate Bill 3 helps 67,000 small businesses by eliminating the franchise tax for them. We also passed House Joint…
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In a week when parts of the state are getting triple-digit temperatures and weather officials urge Texans to stay cool and hydrated, Gov. Greg Abbott gave final approval to a law that will eliminate local rules mandating water breaks for construction workers.
House Bill 2127 was passed by the Texas Legislature during this year’s regular legislative session. Abbott signed it Tuesday. It will go into effect on Sept. 1.
Supporters of the law have said it will eliminate a patchwork of local ordinances across the state that bog down businesses. The law’s scope is broad but ordinances that establish minimum breaks in the workplace are one of the explicit targets. The law will nullify ordinances enacted by Austin in 2010 and Dallas in 2015 that established 10-minute breaks every four hours so that construction workers can drink water and protect themselves from the sun. It also prevents other cities from passing such rules in the future. San Antonio has been considering a similar ordinance.
Texas is the state where the most workers die from high temperatures, government data shows. At least 42 workers died in Texas between 2011 and 2021 from environmental heat exposure, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Workers’ unions claim this data doesn’t fully reflect the magnitude of the problem because heat-related deaths are often recorded under a different primary cause of injury.
This problem particularly affects Latinos because they represent six out of every 10 construction workers, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
Unions expect heat-related deaths to go up if mandated water breaks go away.
“Construction is a deadly industry. Whatever the minimum protection is, it can save a life. We are talking about a human right,” said Ana Gonzalez, deputy director of policy and politics at the Texas AFL-CIO. “We will see more deaths, especially in Texas’ high temperatures.”
The National Weather Service is forecasting highs over 100 degrees in several Texas cities for at least the next seven days.
Heat waves are extreme weather events, often more dangerous than tornadoes, severe thunderstorms or floods. High temperatures kill people, and not just in the workplace. Last year, there were 279 heat-related deaths in Texas, based on data analysis by The Texas Tribune.
In 2022, Texas saw its second-hottest summer on record, and an extreme drought swept the state. This summer is not expected to be as hot as the weather pattern known as La Niña eases, which typically brings dry conditions to Texas, state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon said.
Still, climate change amplifies the effects of heat waves, said Hosmay Lopez, an oceanographer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who studies heat waves. Climate change causes heat waves to stretch for longer periods of time, reach higher temperatures and occur more often than they would otherwise. The problem is especially pronounced in dry areas of the Southwest due to a lack of vegetation and soil moisture, which in wetter regions produces a cooling effect through evaporation.
At the same time, he added, increased urbanization across the U.S. — especially in places like Texas where cities are expanding — makes more people vulnerable to health dangers from extreme heat due to the “urban island” effect. Essentially, the combination of concrete and buildings, plus a lack of green spaces causes ground-level heat to radiate, increasing the temperature in cities.
“The impact of climate change on extreme heat is not only enhanced [by weather events] but also enhanced through social dynamics as well,” Lopez said.
HB 2127, introduced by state Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, is perhaps Texas Republicans’ most aggressive attempt to curb progressive policies in the state’s largest, liberal-leaning cities. Under the new law, local governments would be unable to create rules that go beyond what state law dictates in broad areas like labor, agriculture, business and natural resources.
Beyond eliminating mandated water breaks for construction workers, opponents of the legislation argue that it will also make it more difficult for cities and counties to protect tenants facing eviction or to combat predatory lending, excessive noise and invasive species. Labor unions and workers’ rights advocates opposed the law, while business organizations supported it, including the National Federation of Independent Business, a lobbying group with more than 20,000 members in Texas. Abbott said it would “provide a new hope to Texas businesses struggling under burdensome local regulations.”
Supporters of HB 2127 say that local regulations on breaks for construction workers are unnecessary because the right to a safe labor environment is already guaranteed through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Water breaks are better solved by OSHA controls, argued Geoffrey Tahuahua, president of Associated Builders and Contractors of Texas. Tahuahua believes local rules impose a rigid scheme that, unlike OSHA guidelines, does not allow the flexibility needed to tailor breaks to individual job site conditions.
“They try to make one size fits all, and that is not how it should work,” he said. “These ordinances just add confusion and encourage people to do the minimum instead of doing the right thing.”
David Michaels, who was head of OSHA from 2009 to 2017, disagreed with the approach of HB 2127 proponents.
“Under OSHA law, it is employers who are responsible to make sure workers are safe,” said Michaels, now a professor at the George Washington University School of Public Health. “And we have compelling evidence that they are doing a very poor job because many workers are injured on the job, especially in Texas.”
Michaels pointed out that OSHA does not have a national standard for heat-related illnesses and issues citations only for over-exposure to heat after an injury or death, but not before that occurs.
“The better solution would be to have a national standard, but since we do not, local ordinances are very important for saving lives,” he said. “Prohibiting these local laws will result in workers being severely hurt or killed.”
Gonzalez, from the Texas AFL-CIO, disagrees with the idea that local regulations hurt businesses.
Mandated water breaks “were passed in 2010 in Austin and construction is still growing, especially in the state’s largest cities,” Gonzalez said. “It is simply false, an excuse to limit local governments’ power and an intrusion into democracy.”
HB 2127 does not impede the enactment of a state law establishing mandatory breaks for construction workers, and during the regular session, two bills were filed to that effect.
House Bill 495, authored by Rep. Thresa Meza, D-Irving, sought to establish 10-minute mandatory breaks every four hours for contractors working for a governmental entity. House Bill 4673, by Rep. Maria Luisa Flores, D-Austin, would have created a statewide advisory board responsible for establishing standards to prevent heat illness in Texas workplaces and set penalties for employers who do not comply with them.
Neither bill made it through the legislative process.
Daniela Hernandez, state legislative coordinator for the Workers Defense Project, said she hopes legislators will push for a state law mandating water breaks for workers. She added that she would not discard the possibility that cities sue to try to keep their water break ordinances.
“Without an ordinance or a law, there is no safeguard. There is no guarantee that the worker will have those water breaks,” he said. “We will keep fighting.”
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Blog Tour + #Review: THE FIGHT FOR MIDNIGHT by Dan Solomon! #tbrbeyondtours
Welcome to Book-Keeping and my stop on the TBR and Beyond Tours blog tour for The Fight for Midnight by Dan Solomon, which released yesterday from Flux! Read on for all the details and my review.
About the Book
title: The Fight for Midnight
author: Dan Solomon
publisher: Flux
release date: 20 June 2023
It’s been a rough year for Alex Collins. In the past twelve months, he’s lost his best friend, become the target of the two biggest bullies at school, and been sentenced to community service. But on June 25, 2013, he gets a call for help from Cassie Ramirez, the prettiest girl in school. At last, he feels like his luck might be changing.
Cassie is at the Texas State Capitol to protest Wendy Davis’s historic filibuster of the abortion bill HB2, and she’s rallying everyone she knows to join her. Until today, Alex didn’t know what a filibuster was, and he’d never given a moment’s thought to how he felt about abortion. But at the Capitol, he finds himself in the middle of a tense scene full of pro-life “blueshirts,” pro-choice “orangeshirts,” and blustering politicians playing political games as Wendy Davis tries to run out the clock at midnight.
Alex may have entered the Capitol looking to spend time with Cassie, but the political gets personal when he runs into his ex-friend Shireen in an orange T-shirt and quickly realizes that when it comes to an issue like abortion, neutral isn’t an option. Over the next nineteen hours—as things get increasingly heated both on the Senate floor and between the two sets of protesters—Alex will struggle to figure out what side he’s on, knowing that whatever choice he makes will bring him face-to-face with his past mistakes.
Content Warning: Bullying
Add to Goodreads: The Fight for Midnight
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About the Author
Dan Solomon is a journalist based out of Austin, Texas. He’s a senior writer at Texas Monthly, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Details. He covered the HB2 filibuster for the Austin Chronicle, where his work was part of the alt-weekly’s AAN Award-nominated coverage.
Connect with Dan: Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads
My 4-Star Review
I was excited to read The Fight for Midnight because I remember the event around which the book centers so well. In fact, it kind of took me by surprise to realize that it’s been *ten years* since the famous Wendy Davis filibuster! It also makes me sad to realize that ten years later we’re in a *worse* position with respect to women’s rights over their own bodies :( But I think that’s at least part of the reason Mr. Solomon wrote this book.
I think this book is perfect for teens who are questioning their own beliefs at this time, as well as teens who feel compelled to use their voices to speak out, whatever the issue might be. Alex gets a crash course in politics and legislative wrangling when he spends 13 hours at the Texas legislature watching Wendy Davis’ filibuster, and he realizes the whole thing is rigged. The only reason the filibuster lasts past midnight and the bill is prevented from passing is because the voices of the people in the gallery rang out for the last 5 minutes, preventing the Texas GOP from calling the vote. It’s certainly an inspirational story for any teen interested in activism, but Mr. Solomon includes acknowledgement that we may win battles but the war is ongoing -- as evidenced by the position we find ourselves in now.
I think what I liked best about the book is that Mr. Solomon makes a point to have Alex start off not knowing how he feels about the issue of abortion rights, so he goes back and forth throughout the day trying to figure it out. Therefore, both sides are presented by acknowledging that they each believe they are doing the right thing, and that each approaches the task with enthusiasm and dedication. It’s just a recognition that “the other side” doesn’t necessarily have to be our enemy, which I think is a good lesson for teens to learn.
Rating: 4 stars!
**Disclosure: I received a copy of the book from the publisher for purposes of this blog tour. This review is voluntary on my part and reflects my honest rating and review of the book.
Make sure you check out the Instagram tour too! You can find my post here, and the full schedule is here.
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San Antonio lawmakers file bills to better protect public from dangerous dogs
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San Antonio lawmakers file bills to better protect public from dangerous dogs
SAINT ANTONIO – San Antonio lawmakers are taking notice of the dangerous dog problem in the city and the state, and have filed three bills to better protect the public. Each bill aims at addressing specific problems with current laws that deal with dangerous dogs. The filings come after a dog attack two weeks ago […]
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Why reinvent the TX Education Code when "choice" has been available for 20+ years?
It’s NOT about “choice”
Just like the “affordable” healthcare act wasn’t affordable; school “choice” is NOT about choice.
PARENTAL CHOICE is, and has been, in the Texas Education Code since at least 1995, allowing for a student to transfer to another campus within a school district, to another school district, to another county, and even to a district in another state (for districts bordering…
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An increasing number of Texans are tired of being told they don’t get to make final disposition decisions.
There are currently 26 states that have legalized alkaline hydrolysis. That means right now, over half the country has greater freedoms than Texans when it comes to the right to decide our final disposition.
Ultimately, the legalization of alternative forms of body disposition isn’t about safety, efficacy or even environmental protection. It’s about freedom. The freedom to have control over one last decision in your life that will have a lasting impact on how you’re remembered.
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Pre-filing has begun for the 88th Texas Legislature, which convenes in January, and there are 11 bills pertaining to abortion so far, most seeking to mitigate the damage done by the state’s abortion ban and the Dobbs ruling. The link above ^ should refresh as new bills are filed -- these are the ones listed as of Tuesday morning, November 15th.
Yes:
HB 27, from Austin-area Democrat Rep. Vikki Goodwin, protects employers who offer abortion support benefits to employees
SB 78, from Dallas Democrat Sen. Nathan Johnson, would allow the prescription of medication abortion care, superseding any other laws/ordinances that prohibit the provision of care.
SB 79, also from Sen. Johnson, would deauthorize criminal, civil, and/or administrative penalties or liabilities for people who get abortions. (State law already technically prohibits this, but that doesn’t stop prosecutors from trying it, anyway. I’m assuming this would strengthen that provision.)
SB 122, from Senate Democrats Alvarado, Blanco, Eckhardt, Gutierrez, Menéndez, Miles, West, and Whitmire, would make it somewhat easier for a person who’s been sexually assaulted to seek a clinical abortion in Texas/for a provider to offer such care, by stripping requirements that pregnant folks engage with law enforcement before seeking care.
SB 123, from Senate Democrats Alvarado, Blanco, Eckhardt, Gutierrez, Menéndez, Miles, West, and Whitmire, would somewhat lift burdens for physicians and providers in Texas when it comes to determining health-related exceptions to the state abortion ban, including putting into statute that a “medical review process” cannot overrule a physician or pregnant person.
SB 203, from Senate Democrats Eckhardt, Alvarado, Gutierrez, and Menéndez, dictates that doctors prioritize a pregnant person’s health and health care decisions, “regardless of whether the treatment poses a risk of injury or death to the fetus.”
SB 227, from Senate Democrats Eckhardt, Alvarado, Gutierrez, Johnson, and Menéndez, repeals Texas’ abortion bans.
SJR 21, from Senate Democrats Eckhardt, Alvarado, Gutierrez, Johnson, and Menéndez, proposes a constitutional amendment securing “the right to personal reproductive autonomy.”
SJR 23, Senate Democrats Eckhardt, Alvarado, Gutierrez, Johnson, and Menéndez, proposes a constitutional amendment “establishing the right to be free from governmental intrusion or interference into an individual’s private life.”
No:
HB 61, from North Texas Republican Candy Noble, which prohibits governmental entities (read: the city of Austin, which lives rent-free in state Republicans’ heads 24/7/365) from offering practical support such as child care, lodging, travel funds, etc., to people seeking abortion care
HB 319, from Harris County Republican Rep. Tom Oliverson, deals with so-called “conscience clauses,” protecting health care providers who don’t want to provide health care to people.
HB 522, from Baytown Republican Briscoe Cain, probably the Lege’s most batshit anti-abortion blowhard, designating June 24th Texas’ “Celebration of Life” day. (Wendy Davis’ famous filibuster was June 25, 2013, I imagine these things are somehow related.)
NOTE: You can make a Texas Lege account and get notified when bills are filed pertaining to whatever subject matter you like -- I highly recommend it.
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They're ignoring the 'bosses'
To whom or what are our Texas legislators listening when it comes to abortion?
They do not heed the views of the bosses who elect them to public office. That’s for damn sure!
They have enacted an anti-abortion law that makes the practice of ending a pregnancy an illegal act. Meanwhile, a Dallas woman who faces possible permanent fertility damage if she is forced to give birth to a girl who is…
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Majority of Texans continue to support legalizing pot in Texas, new poll shows
Majority of Texans continue to support legalizing pot in Texas, new poll shows
Since 2012, 19 states, Washington, D.C., and Guam have legalized marijuana for recreational use — something 51% of Texans have said they either support or strongly support, according to a new Dallas Morning News-University of Texas at Tyler poll.
And the numbers are even higher for medical use: 67% of those surveyed said they would either support or strongly support the legalization of marijuana…
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