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The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of Buffalo/Niagara and asked of all candidates for this office.
Read the answers from all candidates (who have responded).Questions & Answers
1. There is growing support for reform of the Rockefeller drug laws. What will you do to: a.) Initiate significant reform of these laws; b.) Provide adequate financial support for programs, on the community level, designed to cope with the impact of such reform?
I would actively support such reform but be unlikely to initiate it. Money not needed to incarcerate would be redirected to GCASA and workforce development. Better than punishment and treatment is prevention. In 2005 I developed an improved drug abuse prevention strategy shared with all Orleans County school superintendents.2. What programs and actions will you support to protect communities from the negative consequences of the state’s increasing dependence on gambling revenue?
Gambling can become a ruinous addiction. Why increase its accessibility? Presently it is culturally acceptable (joked about) and has been passed from immigrant ancestors whose "America gamble" paid off. Advertise that gambling is addictive and destroys lives. Use sports figures. Insist educators treat it seriously and indoctrinate against it.
Responses to questions asked of each candidate are reproduced as submitted to the League.
- Original answers for a published Voters Guide were limited to 50 words and are presented as submitted. Candidates have since been invited to supply answers of any length for the Web.
Read the answers from all candidates (who have responded).
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