Marijuana advocate George Hendrickson was going to run for Congress as a conservative independent. But now he’s decided there’s strength in numbers… even Libertarian numbers.
Hendrickson issued and the LP helped circulate today a press release saying Hendrickson will seek the Libertarian nomination for South Dakota’s lone U.S. House seat. Unlike Neal Tapio, Hendrickson manages to announce his candidacy without saying anything stupidly fascist. He just says he’s sick of the “good old boy network” and promises to fight for “congressional term limits, tax and bureaucracy reform, breaking the cycle of welfare recidivism, working toward a balanced budget, and federal descheduling of cannabis to help provide relief for the sick and disabled.” Hmmm—the first item is a bad, anti-democratic idea; the last is still not an issue I’ll put in my top twenty legislative priorities. But I can work with Hendrickson’s three middle items (though is recidivism an appropriate term to use to refer to receiving welfare benefits, then receiving them again later?). And in paragraph, he lays out more policy priorities than Neal Tapio did in a 26-minute speech of Trumpist karaoke.
Hendrickson is hitting the road, though not in a private plane like fancy-pants Republican Tapio. Hendrickson says he’ll do three library events in Sioux Falls next week, then work the Hills right before Valentine’s Day:
- Monday, February 5 – 6:30 to 7:30 Sioux Falls Library – Prairie West Branch 7630 W. 26th St.
- Wednesday, February 7 – 6:30 to 7:30pm Sioux Falls Library – Ronning Branch 3100 E. 49th St.
- Thursday, February 8 – 6:30 to 7:30pm Sioux Falls Library – Caille Branch 4100 Carnegie Cir.
- Monday, February 12 – 6:00 to 8:00pm Belle Fourche Area Community Center 1111 National St.
- Tuesday, February 13 – 6:00 to 8:00pm (location pending) Rapid City
You probably have a difficult road ahead of you, George. Do your best, keep a positive attitude, and rest assured that you’re making a difference in ways you don’t even realize.