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Once again the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has been caught using taxpayer money to influence politics. I urge you to amend federal law to prohibit the Drug Czar and his deputies from using taxpayer money to lobby or campaign. A recent investigation by the Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform found that the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) used taxpayer money to boost support for Republican candidates in 2006. U.S. Drug Czar John Walters and his deputies traveled to almost twenty events with vulnerable Republican members of Congress in the months prior to the election. The taxpayer-financed trips were orchestrated by President Bush's political advisors and often combined with the announcement of federal grants or actions that benefited the districts of the Republican members. A November 20, 2006, memo from Sara Taylor, the former White House Director of Political Affairs, summarizes the travel Drug Czar John Walters took at her request. An agency e-mail sent the following day describes how Karl Rove commended his agency (and three cabinet departments Commerce, Transportation, and Agriculture) for "going above and beyond the call of duty" in making "surrogate appearances" at locations the e-mail described as "the god awful places we sent them." That e-mail, as well as e-mails that followed, show that ONDCP officials were proud of the commendation they received from Mr. Rove and the political travel they took using taxpayer dollars. According to ONDCP's liaison to the White House, Douglas Simon, "Our hard work...in preparing the Director and Deputies for their trips and events" allowed them to travel "thousands of miles to attend numerous events all across the country." The Drug Czar and his staff also routinely use taxpayer money to campaign against proposed state laws they personally don't like. During the 2002 election, for instance, ONDCP's campaigning on a Nevada ballot initiative was so intense that the state's Attorney General complained in a letter to the Nevada Secretary of State that, "it is unfortunate that a representative of the federal government substantially intervened in a matter that was clearly a State of Nevada issue. The excessive federal intervention that was exhibited in this instance is particularly disturbing because it sought to influence the outcome of a Nevada election." More recently, ONDCP officials traveled to New Mexico four times in 12 months at taxpayer expense to lobby state legislators to oppose a proposed medical marijuana bill. They conducted similar lobbying trips to other states. In 2006 Congress included a provision in the ONDCP Reauthorization Act that prohibits ONDCP from using the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign to support or oppose legislation, regulations, ballot measures or candidates. I urge you to expand this ban to prohibit ONDCP officials from using any taxpayer money to lobby or campaign.

Sincerely,

Drug Policy Alliance Once again the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has been caught using taxpayer money to influence politics.... more