Wednesday, August 12, 2009

A joint resolution?

Let’s face it, New York State politics can be boring. But if there were more people like Abigail Storm-Eggink, Albany would be a lot livelier.

Abigail may be the world’s only hippie lobbyist. She’s 58 years old, and she’s fighting for the legalization of marijuana. So she brought a pot plant into the Capitol. Good prop. Bad idea. She got arrested.

But you gotta admire her passion for the cause. Abigail and her husband Dan, who’s 71, have shown up at the Capitol every day for the past 10 weeks to argue their case. Why are they so hot about pot? They say it’s our right under the First Amendment. I’m not sure that’s what our founding fathers had in mind. But I’m pretty sure Bob Marley would have enjoyed hanging with these two.

Abigail is due in court Friday. Naturally, she plans to represent herself.

I can’t help but think if she had passed a few more of her plants around to our state lawmakers they might have done a better job with the budget.

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