MALLORY SAYS: SIGNING NEW WEED LAW IS "WASTE OF INK!"

Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory this week refused to sign the city's new marijuana law that carries with it a 30-day jail term for possession & a repeat offense carrying a possible six-month term.

Here's what was written in this week's edition of City Beat magazine about Mallory's (in)decision.

MALLORY LOOKS THE OTHER WAY

Mayor Mark Mallory took the passive-aggressive approach to legislation with the city's new law carrying a 30-day jail term for possession of marijuana; a repeat offense a possible six-month term. recognizing a bad law when he sees one, Mallory declined to sign the ordinance, passed 6-2 by city council, allowing it to become law without his approval.

He refused to veto the bill, however saying to do so would be a "waste of ink," given the size of the majority that supported it. Mallory knows better than that: A veto would have extended the debate and allowed him to try to change council's decision.

Last year Mallory supported a medical marijuana bill in the Ohio Senate. But looked the other way while the new city ordinance passed, he showed how deep his convictions on this issue run. If you're a cancer patient in Cincinnati and smoke pot to relieve your pain, you can go to jail for it, and Mallory did nothing to stop it.

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What in the devil is going on at City Hall? This is another Screamin' Cecil Thomas production. All Cecil is doing in our opinion is gearing up for his bid for re-election in 2007. No more no less. By introducing this dumb ass proposal to bust the asses of pot smokers in this city he is attempting to do the 3 things he knows he's going to need to get his own ass back on council in November 2007. It ain't hard to figure out but pay attention anyway....

1. Pacify The White Folks: Meaning that when he's parading around in the white community doing his re-election rounds, and by then everybody busted in jailed will be black folks your man Cecil can proudly stand before the white folks and say, "Look what I did, I got all those big black knee-grows off the streets, y'all gonna be safe now, I promise!"
2. Pacify The White Folks Again: Meaning that when he's standing with Streicher, Janke, Westwood Concern (another 2 or 3 person run Cincinnati splinter group, only white) and new potential white voters, it will look good for him as he's skinning and grinning to reinterate, "I fought hard to rid the streets of the scourge of drug and the big bad black animals who are selling them!" (insert wide toothy smile & bojangles demeanor)
3. Pacify The White Folks...One Mo' Time: Cecil Thomas will constantly repeat the mantra: "I fought against crime, drugs, supported the police and I will continue to do the same if you vote for me!" (insert the same big toothy grin & same buckdancing demeanor)

Cincinnati City Councilman Cecil Thomas will brought this silly weed ordinance to the council and Mallory "looked the other way." The Black Fist has always said, "Even if the vote will go down in favor (or against) whatever the issues, we expect members of council and or the Mayor to step up to the plate and state their position and vote accordingly.

Is it right to NOT say anything at all on council when you know a ordinance or vote is coming up that will further oppress and further brutalize black people and push for more racial profiling, especially if you are a black member of council? Or the black mayor?

If Cecil Thomas, who by the way is the chairman of the Law & Public Safety committee, really wanted to show what he's made of regarding "law & order," Then we believe he should be dealing with the skyrocket murder rate, the rolling meth labs, the trafficking of crack cocaine and the illegal sell of guns being brought into Cincinnati by out of town white folks. But No, that's too hard. Councilman and cop for life Cecil Thomas picked the great big out of control problem of marijuana.

The jails are overcrowded as it is but let's thrown black people in jail for weed?!? And believe me "black" people will be the ones to go down under this law. Blacks in Cincinnati are always the ones to suffer the most in this city. Cecil Thomas knows this and Mark Mallory has been told this.

Mayor Mark Mallory should've vetoed that ordinance. Period.

I've never smoked weed and don't care to try it but right is right & wrong is wrong. The new weed law is 100% wrong!

And on this issue so is Mayor Mark Mallory.