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Chris Edes
For
NYS Lieutenant Governor
Biography
Chris Edes is a long time activist for individual liberty and popular government running for lieutenant governor. Since the year of 2005, he has strive and worked to build a reliable alternative for those who believed the two party system has failed to provide. Chris founded the Greater Rochester Libertarian Party in 2007 and served as Chair for five years. Chris also served as State Chair of the Libertarian Party of New York in 2009. As of now Chris currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Genesee Valley Civil Liberties Union, and serves as Chair for the Monroe County chapter of the Shooters Committee on Political Education.
Platform
Reduce the drinking age to 18
Eliminate the tax on cigarettes
Treat marijuana like alcohol
- Young adults are trusted to fight and die in war, they can be trusted to drink responsibly.
Eliminate the tax on cigarettes
- New York has the highest cigarette tax in the nation. Not only is social engineering of this kind wrong from a moral-ethical standpoint, but it disproportionately burdens the poor. The cigarette tax should be eliminated.
Treat marijuana like alcohol
- The preponderance of scientific evidence, as well as personal experiences gained over the last few generations, indicate that marijuana is safer than alcohol. We need to protect our children by moving the sale of marijuana to stores where people show ID, just like they do when purchasing alcohol. Removing commercial profit from the hands of criminal gangs will make all of us safer.
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"We can do this in New York and the Libertarian Party will lead the way."