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Publix founder's daughter gives $800000 fight medical pot

Postby seemslikeadream » Thu Jul 28, 2016 12:14 pm

Family trust of Publix founder's daughter gives $800,000 to fight medical marijuana initiative
News Service of Florida
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 1:50pm

Preparing to again try to defeat a medical-marijuana ballot initiative, the Drug Free Florida Committee received an $800,000 contribution this month from the Carol Jenkins Barnett Family Trust, a newly filed financial disclosure shows.

Carol Jenkins Barnett is the daughter of Publix Super Markets founder George Jenkins. The trust also contributed $540,000 in 2014 to the Drug Free Florida Committee, which led successful efforts that year to defeat a proposed constitutional amendment that would have broadly legalized medical marijuana.

The group United for Care, which also is known as People United for Medical Marijuana, backed the 2014 initiative and has placed a similar measure on the November 2016 ballot. That group has been heavily funded by Orlando attorney John Morgan.

The Drug Free Florida Committee had about $1.67 million in cash on hand as of July 15, the new finance report shows.
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Postby Novem5er » Thu Jul 28, 2016 4:32 pm

Most of y'all probably don't have Publix, but here in the south it is a beloved company. They pay better wages than Wal-mart, have nicer stores, and do a lot of public charity work . . . but they've been rocked by some controversy over the years. I believe they had an issue with not promoting female management (Wal-mart had the same problem, I believe). They also were buying tomatoes from growers with alegedly abusive labor practices. Now, this with the heiress trying to fight medical marijuana.

Is she putting money against it because, like most old people down here, they don't their state to be the next Colorado? Or is it because every Publix has a pharmacy in it?
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Postby seemslikeadream » Thu Jul 28, 2016 4:43 pm

lots of Publixs in Colorado.... :P
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Postby seemslikeadream » Thu Jul 28, 2016 4:47 pm

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Postby Novem5er » Thu Jul 28, 2016 4:50 pm

Oh, yeah! They have expanded this last decade or so.

It's funny because around here, Publix is the place to shop if you "have money", where has Win-Dixie or Walmart is where all the pleebs shop. Even my father, who is an educated professional with a nice income doesn't shop at Publix because it's still the place for "snooty" people; he keeps to his working class, Wal-mart roots!

I'm not sure if that perceptions exists elsewhere or not.
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Postby seemslikeadream » Thu Jul 28, 2016 4:55 pm

I guess Carol Jenkins Barnett does not care about the seriously ill people in Colorado getting their hands on pot...... only in Florida?
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Postby Novem5er » Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:04 pm

Not sure. Lakeland, Florida is where Publix started, so this might be her "home". Also, do we know if she put up money against pot in Colorado before it passed? Maybe it just didn't get media coverage. Or, hell, maybe she wasn't really paying attention because it was way out there in Colorado? I'm not sure how many Publix stores they have there, but again in Florida is where they started so it's a BIG name here.
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Postby 82_28 » Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:26 pm

I'm from Colorado and there ain't none there. I just checked to be sure. But yeah, no there's no Publix in CO.
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Postby American Dream » Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:37 pm

Well, let's not forgat that not all billionaires want exactly the same things:


An Inside Look At The Biggest Drug Reformer In The Country: George Soros

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Barcelona, 11/04/2013 George Soros (Budapest, 1930) es el presidente del fondo de inversión Soros Fund Management LLC y presidente y fundador de las fundaciones Open Society.


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I cover the wild world of billionaires.


Meet the mega-billionaire who jump started the drug debate.

Financier George Soros has become one of the largest supporters of drug reforms ranging from medical marijuana use to the easing of sentencing for drug charges. His foundation has donated about $200 million to drug reforms since 1994, double what most people had estimated until now.

“He’s played a historic role in the evolution of drug policy reform from a movement that was at the fringe of U.S. politics to one that is in the mainstream,” said Ethan Nadelmann, who runs the nonprofit Drug Policy Alliance.

The largest recipient of that $200 million is the Drug Policy Alliance. Nadelmann said his organization has worked with Soros for decades, and that the foundation now gives roughly $5 million a year to his nonprofit or one of its affiliates.

Nadelmann recalled his organization’s first success with Soros’s help: when they won key states for medical marijuana in the late 1990s. This November, Oregon, Alaska and D.C. will vote on full-blown legalization. Florida residents will decide on approving medical use.

Worth an estimated $24 billion, Soros has funneled billions of his fortune, built through his hedge fund and famous deals like when he shorted the British pound in 1992, into his Open Society Foundations. It’s now a philanthropic powerhouse that has given about $11 billion towards causes including public health, human rights and drug reform through his lifetime.

Most of the foundation’s drug-related giving has been sent overseas, supporting treating drug use as a public health concern rather than criminal issue.

One Soros-backed foundation recently paid for hundreds of heroin addicts in Crimea to move and continue treatment in Ukraine after Russia invaded the territory several months ago, and extended Russia’s law banning methadone clinics to the region, Nadelmann cited.

After Soros started publicly supporting Drug Policy Alliance in the 1990s, Nadelmann said the name recognition began attracting funding from other wealthy financiers and executives.

“The fact that someone as respected as him donated towards this issue raised the right sorts of eyebrows,” he added.

About $25 million has focused on reforming marijuana laws specifically, including decriminalization, medical marijuana use and full-blown legalization, said Michael Vachon, advisor to the chairman at Soros Fund Management. (Vachon confirmed that the foundation’s giving base is primarily from Soros’s personal donations to the foundation.)

Soros donated $1 million to back the Drug Policy Alliance’s specific ballot-initiative for California’s Proposition 19 in 2010. Soros also donated $400,000 to the Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy in 2007, which supported decriminalizing holding an ounce or less of marijuana in Massachusetts. The measure passed in 2008.

He is one of the few billionaires who supports drug reforms. Among this year’s FORBES 400 who have also donated to drug reform over the past decade: Facebook billionaires Sean Parker and Dustin Moskovitz gave $100,000 and at least $70,000, respectively, towards supporting California’s Prop 19 in 2010 through Drug Policy Alliance.

More recently, Irwin Jacobs gave $5,000 in 2012 to the political action committee Drug Policy Reform Fund, which broadly supports decriminalization, medical use and reforming the justice system. Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel also gave $5,000 to the Marijuana Policy Project in 2004.

John Sperling, the billionaire University of Phoenix founder who died in August, had supported drug reform after marijuana helped him curb side effects from prostate cancer treatment in the 1970s. Insurance billionaire Peter Lewis, who died in 2013, had also pushed for medical marijuana legalization, and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws estimated that he had donated more than $40 million towards the cause since the 1980s.

There’s even fewer who support the other side of the debate. Most recently, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, worth $32 billion, gave $2.5 million towards striking down Florida’s vote on medical marijuana.


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Postby Novem5er » Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:43 pm

82_28 » Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:26 pm wrote:I'm from Colorado and there ain't none there. I just checked to be sure. But yeah, no there's no Publix in CO.


Argh! The last Publix map I saw had arms stretching out from Florida like the tendrils of a sandwich-making kraken. It seemed reasonable they'd reached out to ensnare Colorado with their BOGOs (buy one - get one) and famous potato salad.
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Postby seemslikeadream » Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:46 pm

oops I googled and thought they came up there...so Colorado is Publix free :yay
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