Springfield woman, Kathy Kelly Sue Lee, 42, who was pardoned by Kulongoski in March 2006 after she was convicted in 1989 of dealing meth from her house and endangering her children, was recently arrested again after police uncovered evidence of methamphetamine use, including a glass pipe found in her purse that tested positive for meth residue.
"In her pardon application, Lee, said she had gone back to school to become a legal secretary and needed the pardon so she could get a better job that provided health insurance for herself and her two children. She said she had changed since that 1989 conviction and "would never do something like that again."
while I do not know the exact particulars of the 1989 conviction, and why Kulongoski has pardoned this woman, to me it seems rather two-faced, that our Governor, who required some over-the-counter to require a prescription, and including some medications which are no longer available at Oregon such as "Bronkaid" [which made my allergy season horrible] would pardon a woman for methamphetamine use and endangering her children.
It just seems rather odd to me.
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That's what happens when you elect someone that thinks from their heart instead of their head. While tighter control of these cold and allergy meds. was appropriate, making them unavailable or by prescription was just plain nuts. A majority of the meth was and still is coming across the border and he has aided and abetted this more than anything.
His latest snafu was to try and put the entire cost of providing free child health care on the back of smokers.
Nice idea to some but totally unfair to the majority of the voters.
Ted doesn't always show the best judgement.
I can't help but mention the fact that when meth kitchens are busted, the news video does NOT show the clean up crew removing small packages of sinus meds....they are carrying out BUCKETS of chemicals. All Ted did was make it harder on the people who were already struggling with no insurance and minimal income. If he learned anything from eating on food stamps for a week, you would think he'd change his strategy. Unless, of course, he was a C student like Bush.
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