The Village Voice: Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway

Burton's Blunt

At a December 12 hearing of the House Government Reform Committee, Representative Dan Burton, Republican conservative from Indiana, raised the prospect of legalizing dope.

..."But I have one question that nobody ever asks, and that's this question: What would happen if there was no profit in drugs? If they couldn't make any money out of selling drugs, what would happen?"

Further up he noted:

Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, says he's no better choice than the outgoing leader. "Few senators have a worse voting record on civil rights than Trent Lott, but Bill Frist is one of them," she says. "Frist has voted against sex education, international family planning, emergency contraception [the morning-after pill], affirmative action, hate crimes legislation, and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. This is the man who is supposed to save face for the GOP in the Senate? Think again."