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Video: Jim Pillsbury, Independent Candidate for Representative Answers Voter’s Questions

October 9, 2010 in Walsh Pillsbury Rizzoli by Jim Pillsbury | View Comments

Watch Jim Pillsbury, Independent candidate for State Rep., 6th Middlesex (Framingham) aswering questions that have been asked on his blog, his web site, or by the voters of Framingham he has spoken to.  These two informative 1/2 hour videos give you the opportunity to learn more about the candidate’s views, ideas, and visions and the issues important to you.

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Jim Pillsbury – Candidate for State Representative in the 6th Middlesex District

September 21, 2010 in Walsh Pillsbury Rizzoli by Jim Pillsbury | View Comments

Video: Candidate Interview Jim Pillsbury

For more than 2 decades I have been helping to shape public policy. From the mid 80′s I was one of a handful of people who stood up to the D.A.R.E. program and exposed it’s failure in reducing drug use in the public schools. It took years, but funding was finally stopped. In the 90’s I worked on numerous campaigns, like Mandatory Minimums in drug sentencing and Medicinal marijuana. In 2000 I helped author and put on the ballot here in Framingham, the first Public Policy Question ever. The question, whether to decriminalize marijuana, was passed by 65% of those who voted for the Incumbent State Rep. That language was used in 2008 in Question 2, which passed by nearly 65% or almost 2 million voters.

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