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Credico 2010 Fund Raiser at Gotham Comedy Club
Limited Seating
please rsvp at
Thursday Jan. 7
8PM
Featuring
Will Durst
Marian Grodin
Scott Blakeman
and more TBA
hosted by
Barry Weintraub
special appearence by the foremost authority
Professor Irwin Corey
Gotham Comedy Club
208 West 23rd Street (bet. 7th and 8th)
New York NY
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By Charles Grodin
NY Daily News
Wednesday, December 23rd 2009
I had lunch recently with some remarkable people. First, retired Judge Jerry Marks, who is 94 and was my inspiration to pursue clemency for certain people who were unjustly serving long prison sentences under the cruel and inhuman Rockefeller drug laws.
When Judge Marks retired, he sought clemency for a young woman named Angela Thomson, who was a candidate for drug rehab, not a long, mandatory prison sentence.
I became an advocate for clemency for the deserving inmates led by Randy Credico, who is the successor to the late William Kuntsler. Because of Randy guiding me, I helped get four women out of prison. One of the cases was so egregiously cruel, the Rockefeller drug laws were changed in 1994. Then-Gov. George Pataki cited me. He should have cited Randy Credico.
Also at the lunch was Jan Warren, who is living a productive life since her clemency was granted more than 10 years ago.
Randy Credico was at the lunch. He led me to Jan. He’s my hero. He actually travels to Argentina to help the mothers of the disappeared. These are women whose children have been taken away from them and most likely killed. He also has traveled to Tulia, Tex., to confront the so-called justice system there about police arresting innocent black people on trumped-up drug charges. They do this to justify their employment.
Also at the lunch was Tony Papa, who served 15 years at Sing Sing for selling drugs and recently wrote a fascinating piece for The Washington Post in which he eloquently pointed out that prisons can be so cruel and inhuman they can turn nonviolent people into violent people.
As Democratic Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia so eloquently said recently: “We represent 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the world’s prison population. Either we’re the most evil people on Earth, or there’s something wrong with our so-called justice system.”
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December 3, 2009
By Tony Papa, Huffington Post
Stop the presses! Political comedian-turned-activist-turned-candidate for United States Senate Randy Credico has resigned his position as Director of the Kunstler Fund to devote himself full-time to defeating New York Senator Charles Schumer in his re-election bid next year. In the week since he dived in the race he already is creating a buzz with a New York Times article about him and surprising public support.
A new Siena Research Institute poll conducted from Nov. 8-12 shows that the political spitfire Credico — the official comedian on the Fred Dicker Show, the most powerful and influential talk show in Albany, New York — is gaining momentum in the race for the Democratic nomination next September. Credico’s support in the poll skyrocketed to a walloping 9% as soon as he filed papers to enter the race.
Credico says that he has decided to challenge his opponent, incumbent Sen. Schumer, because no one is more responsible for the nation’s financial meltdown than Chuck “Pay to Play” Schumer. Credico waxes, “He has taken millions in campaign contributions in return for gutting oversight and regulation of our financial sector. Chuck Schumer has been a prostitute for corporate America at the expense of the average citizen. Chuck Schumer has taken millions from Wall Street, bankers, traders and even got a check from Bernie Madoff — although Madoff makes Schumer look honest.”
Credico counts among his supporters Seinfeld co-creator Larry David and TV comedienne Roseanne Barr. He’ll also be courting the millions of marijuana smokers in NYC — including the 240,000 that have been arrested in the last 10 years — with his message of ending the drug war and decriminalizing all drug use. “The war on drugs does not work and it destroys lives,” he says.
Randy makes no secret of his previous drug use, and he takes pride in the fact that he once got arrested, he says, for tipping off teenagers to avoid a police “hot spot” for marijuana arrests.
Credico is no stranger to drug policy advocacy. In 1998 he co-founded the group Mothers of the New York Disappeared to build support for an overhaul of New York’s draconian Rockefeller Drug laws, which were revamped earlier this year. Now he says he’ll even fold marijuana into his campaign slogan: “Which candidate would you rather smoke a joint with, Credico or Schumer?”
Credico is also deeply attuned to the discriminatory impact of our current marijuana policies, noting that “New York City is the marijuana arrest capital of the world.”
In 2008 alone, there were 40,000 marijuana arrests in New York City, most of them teens and young adults under the age of 26. What’s more, 87 percent of those charged with pot possession were black and Latino. Nationwide, police arrest someone every 36 seconds on marijuana charges. A record 872,000 arrests were made in 2007, more than for all violent crimes combined.
“You have a right to inhale and enjoy marijuana without facing arrest,” says Credico, who has launched a campaign website at www.Credico2010.com.
Credico’s platform includes an ambitious list of priorities:
* Legalization of Marijuana
* Immediate pullout of Iraq
* Immediate pullout of Afghanistan
* Ending Plan Colombia Immediately
* End Drug War at home and abroad
* Repeal Patriot Act
* Abolish Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
* Repeal 1996 Omnibus Crime Bill
* Constitutional amendment abolishing death penalty
* Decriminalization of all Drugs
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