State Sen. Vicki Marble introduces "no food stamps in pot shops" bill based on SATIRE article

[alp227]

If you thought Congress was full of clowns, then you don't know about state legislatures that have some of the nuttiest right wingers around like Sally Kern (Oklahoma), Glenn Grothman (Wisconsin), Stacey Campfield (Tennessee), Chris Buttars (Utah), Dave Agema (Michigan), and now Vicki Marble (Colorado). Why? Think Progress reports:

Days after Colorado began to allow recreational marijuana businesses to legally operate in the state, a group of state legislators filed a bill to ensure that no food stamps or public assistance funds are used at those shops. The bill comes after a county Republican party committee mistook a satirical news report for fact.

Last week, the satirical National Report posted a fake story entitled “Colorado Pot Shop Accepting Food Stamps – Taxpayer Funded Marijuana for Welfare Recipients.” Other stories on the site include equally false items such as “Colorado Pot Shop Attempts To Disarm Citizens With ‘Weed for Guns’ Buyback Program,” “How Obama’s EPA Is Taking Away Your 2nd Amendment,” and “U.S. Caves to Iran In Nuclear Deal. Sharia Law Now to be Taught in U.S. Universities. Qurans to be Placed in Motel Rooms.” A conservative news site picked up the story, apparently duped. The Douglas County Republican Committee, also apparently believing the story real, linked to the report on its Twitter feed last Tuesday.

A day later, Marble’s bill was filed in the state Senate. Marble did not immediately respond to a ThinkProgress inquiry about her rationale, but two of her co-sponsors did. Rep. Dan Nordberg (R) observed that while “To my knowledge, there have been no incidences at marijuana establishments in the two weeks they’ve been open,” the bill is “consistent with the intent of Amendment 64, which is to ‘regulate marijuana like alcohol.’” Since the prohibition applies to liquor stores, he notes, it should thus also apply to marijuana vendors. Rep. Jared Wright (R) echoed this view, noting that the proposal is “a preventative measure designed to create better stewardship around where and how these benefit dollars are used” and thus a “a responsible, common-sense bill.”

[babylonsister]

1. Bwhahaha!

They continue to impress!

[Turbineguy]

2. Duped

That's the problem with conservatives. They'll believe anything. Listening to RW tripe they lost all faculty for critical thought. Fox should have warned them. Fox is for the plebian useful idiots, not the leadership of those plebian useful idiots.