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January 20, 2007
WI Lawmaker who helped kill mmj bill plans “Hamburger” resolution
Posted by Gary Storck
Saturday, January 20, 2007
State Rep. Tom Nelson, the Kaukauna Democrat whose refusal to stick up for the sick and dying helped kill last session’s medical marijuana bill in the Assembly Health committee, is now in the news sticking up for meat.
That’s right, according to a Capital Times editorial published today, “Hamburger hegemony”:
As state Rep. Tom Nelson, D-Kaukauna, notes, "The folks in Texas are saying it happened in the late 1880s. This guy in Connecticut says 1900. We have them beat on both counts.""We'll give them Manwich or Hamburger Helper," adds the legislator, "but not the hamburger."
Nelson plans to introduce a legislative resolution declaring Seymour to be the official home of the hamburger.
While Nelson is mercifully no longer a member of the Assembly Health Committee, the slim Republican control of the Assembly has put the committee leadership in the hands of two legislators comfortable with patients going without their medicine. New chair Leah Vukmir (R-Wauwatosa), badgered patients at the Nov. 2005 hearing. And the new vice chair, replacing Vukmir when she replaced the outgoing Rep. Gregg Underheim, is Rep. Terry Moulton (R-Chippewa Falls). Not only is Moulton a supporter of the status quo of arresting the sick and dying, should they use medical cannabis, but he didn’t even bother to show up for the hearing. Too bad, he obviously needs some education on this issue.
Posted by Gary at January 20, 2007 12:54 PM
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