Lincoln Chafee presidential campaign, 2016/Civil liberties

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Former presidential candidate
Lincoln Chafee
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Governor of Rhode Island
(2011-2015)
U.S. Senate
(1999-2007)
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  • At the Unite Iowa Immigration Forum in August 2015, Lincoln Chafee called marijuana legalization in Uruguay and some U.S. states “interesting, positive experiments.”[1][2]
  • Chafee supported the decriminalization of marijuana in Rhode Island in 2013. When asked in a 2014 interview with Huffington Post whether he would embrace the full legalization of marijuana, Chafee said he “believes there’s a connection between liberal social policies and the economy” but that Rhode Island must proceed slowly.[3]
  • In 2013, Chafee issued an executive order to increase minority representation in the Rhode Island state workforce to “better reflect the changing demographics of the state as a whole.”[4]
Race and ethnicity
  • On June 18, 2015, Lincoln Chafee posted on his Facebook, "My heart goes out to the Charleston community and to the victims of these horrifying murders. It is comforting to know that Charleston is fortunate to have an expert and able mayor in Joe Riley. Hate crime legislation I supported while I was in the Senate will give the community federal funding to assist in this difficult time."[5]

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See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Marijuana.com, "2016 Presidential Candidate Calls Legalization ‘Positive’," August 31, 2015
  2. ↑ YouTube, "#UniteIowa on Immigration Forum," August 29, 2015
  3. ↑ Huffington Post, “Rhode Island Governor Offers Amazingly Stoner-Sounding Idea For Pot Revenues,” February 24, 2014
  4. ↑ RI.gov, “Governor Lincoln D. Chafee Signs Executive Order on Diversity,” May 9, 2013
  5. ↑ Facebook, "Lincoln Chafee 2016," accessed June 24, 2015
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