Found at Dee’s ‘Dotes. According to wikipedia, Clifford “Cliff” W. Thornton, Jr. is an American drug policy reform advocate and Green politician serving as one of the seven current (as of November 2007) co-Chairs of the Green Party of the United States. He is the first African American candidate to appear on the General Election Ballot for Governor of Connecticut. In 2006 Thornton was the Connecticut Green Parties candidate for Governor receiving 9,583 votes for just under one percent of the vote.
In the last five years Thornton has spoken to over 400,000 people on drug reform in some 750 venues all over the US, Australia, Canada, Europe, and New Zealand. Thornton also has completed over 400 hundred radio shows and numerous television spots on drug policy reform as it relates to health, race/class and economics. He is described as “America’s foremost anti-Drug War African American activist” by Amherst College’s online newspaper. Thornton also speaks on education and health care.
In 2007, Thornton received the Robert C. Randall Award for Achievement in the Field of Citizen Action from the Drug Policy Alliance.
His website is at http://www.efficacy-online.org/
Good going, pinko.