From: Eric Sterling <esterling@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
Date: 12 Nov 92 12:54 PST
Subject: CALL CLINTON & PUNDITS
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1301300200:000:5219
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!esterling    Nov 12 12:54:00 1992


               A C T I O N   M E M O R A N D U M
               
                            SET PRIORITIES FOR PRESIDENT CLINTON
               
                    Political commentators report that "interest
               groups" are bombarding the Clinton transition team
               with their priorities for the first hundred days.
               
                    They need to get calls now about urgent agenda
               items for drug policy reform.
               
                    On the other side of this page are the names,
               addresses, phone and fax numbers of many leading
               political commentators.  Also are the addresses,
               phone and fax numbers of the Clinton transition
               offices.
               
                    Politics DOES NOT end on election day.  Now the
               target of the persuaders has shifted from the voters
               to the winner.  NOW, YOU MUST BE A PERSUADER.
               
                                     TOP PRIORITY ISSUES
               
                    (1)  Provide immediate pain relief for cancer
               patients, anti-nausea treatment for HIV+ persons,
               and aid other patients by directing the Attorney
               General to reschedule marijuana to schedule II in
               the first 30 days to follow DEA Chief Administrative
               Law Judge Young's recommendation.
               
                    (2)  Reduce Federal prison system overcrowding
               and make room for violent, predatory criminals by
               immediately commuting the sentences of all marijuana
               users, possessors, and growers in Federal prison.
               
                    (3)  Fight AIDS by sending legislation to
               Congress to repeal the limitation on Federal aid to
               cities & states conducting clean needle programs.
               
                    (4)  Restore confidence in, and among, Federal
               judges by sending legislation to Congress to repeal
               mandatory minimum sentences.  Pending enactment,
               appoint panels to review mandatory sentences for
               commutation where appropriate. 
               
                    (5)  Protect innocent citizens from wrongful
               confiscation of property when no crime is charged by
               directing the Attorney General to drop all
               forfeiture proceedings that are not based on a
               criminal conviction.
               
                    (6)  Promote public safety and workplace
               productivity by  substituting impairment testing for
               substance-based testing.
               
                         Before you leave Washington, make 5 calls!
                                            Pick your two or three key issues.CLINTON TRANSITION OFFICES:
     105 West Capitol Avenue, Little Rock, Ark. 72201
     Tel. 501-399-7000.   Fax. 501-399-7096

     Office of the President-Elect
     1120 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005
     Tel. 202-973-2600 (Maybe 202-973-1000)

     Governor Clinton's Arkansas Office (501-682-2345)
     Senator Gore's Office (202-224-4944)

LEADING COLUMNISTS       Telephone (202)          FAX (202)

Jack Anderson                 483-1442
*Doug Bandow                  703-690-2451        546-0728
*David S. Broder                   334-7444            334-5451
Patrick J. Buchanan (Yeah, right)  703-790-1551
Art Buchwald                  393-6680
*Richard Cohen                334-7205            334-4480
M. Stanton Evans                   546-6561
Rowland Evans, Jr.                 393-4340            393-5588
*Jack Germond                 452-8250            872-9327
*Ellen Goodman (Boston Globe)      617-929-3032 or 617-929-3100
Georgie Anne Geyer            333-9176
Andrew J. Glass                    331-0900            331-1055
*Brit Hume                         887-7286
*Michael Kinsley                   331-7494
*Charles Krauthammer               872-8109            872-8137
Robert Kuttner                331-7494
Diane MacEachern    (Environment)  334-6000
*Colman McCarthy                   334-7728
Sarah McClendon                    483-3791            483-7918
*Mary McGrory                 334-7583
Marianne Means                298-6920            333-1184
Ralph Nader                   703-764-0496
Michael Novak                 862-5838            862-7177
*Robert D. Novak                   393-4340            393-5588
*Neal R. Peirce                    857-1417
*William Raspberry            334-7462
*Carl T. Rowan                966-8668
*Mark Russell                 362-5045
*William Safire                    862-0330            862-0340
*Mark Shields                 662-1255
*R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.            703-243-3733        703-243-
6814
*Ben J. Wattenberg            862-5908            862-7177
*George F. Will                    334-6375
*Juan Williams                334-6000
*Jules Witcover                    298-8359
Edwin M. Yoder, Jr.           334-6375
*  High Priority
                 AND CALL YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER COLUMNISTS!