FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
08/06/10
POC Steve Kubby
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415-830-6070
KUBBY FILES FOR SOUTH LAKE TAHOE COUNCIL
South Lake Tahoe, California – Medical marijuana activist and Libertarian politician Steve Kubby is the first candidate to enter the race for three seats on South Lake Tahoe’s city council. Kubby filed the requisite paperwork with City Clerk Susan Alessi’s office yesterday afternoon and will appear on voters’ ballots in November.
Citing a recent El Dorado County grand jury report which characterizes the city as operating “at an inconsistent and barely functioning level,” Kubby pledged to rigorously concentrate on “meat and potatoes” issues.
“The city government’s job is to keep the potholes filled and protect the residents from criminals,” he says. “The internal squabbling and external overreach and micro-management noted by the grand jury are bad for South Lake Tahoe. Our city should be a magnet for new businesses, new employers, not a place they want to avoid because of dysfunctional government.”
Kubby, 63, is CEO of KPAL, a biotech research company. His past business endeavors include a Tahoe-area property management company, Ski West Magazine and Earth Camp One, an award-winning youth summer camp. He’s worked as a probation officer, college professor, journalist, publisher, researcher, television host and media consultant to companies entering the online marketplace.
Kubby served on the Northstar Homeowners Board, successfully procuring county funds to pay for fixing potholes and repaving. He was a regular fundraiser for the Ski Team and Fire Department.
Kubby holds a BA in Psychobiology from California State University Northridge and a Lifetime Teaching Credential in Public Administration from Shasta College. He’s earned advanced SCUBA certifications and attended the US Navy’s “Top Gun” combat aviation school as a journalist. Last season, Kubby skied over 1 million vertical feet.
Since his terminal cancer diagnosis 35 years ago (he was told he had 6-12 months to live), Kubby has been a medical marijuana patient and activist. He played a key role as co-author, consultant and fundraiser in the passage of California’s medical marijuana law, Proposition 215, in 1996. Kubby has written two books on drug policy reform and is Director of the American Medical Marijuana Association.
Kubby was the Libertarian Party’s candidate for governor of California in 1998 and sought that party’s presidential nomination in 2008, losing to former congressman Bob Barr of Georgia.
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“Steve would certainly improve his city council if elected …….”
I DO NOT DISAGREE!
I go out of my way to support non Democans and non Republicrats —– have for decades.
I had factual things to say and [like my DOCUMENTED misgivings on Cody Quirk] I was directly rebuffed!
[a] It is one thing to say we disagree
[b] It is another to say that [with tons of documentation] that I am wrong
Critics, use them, not abuse them. You want to help Steve in SLT, tell him to reconsider his official photo!
BTW, no need to put my name in scare quotes. Paulie is a commonly used variation of Paul in the area where I grew up. Before that, it was Pavel, and the Jewish Rabbis say it’s Pinkhas.
Mr. Lake,
As far as I know, I have never said you lied about anything. If I did, please show me where and when.
I do disagree with you on some things and agree with you on others – when I can decipher what you are getting at at all.
Regarding Steve Kubby, we disagree. Steve would certainly improve his city council if elected. I’m glad I helped him in 2007-8 and wish I could have done more.
My campaign is no more about “weed” than the Boston Tea Party was about “tea.” It’s about freedom of choice and getting government to stop poking its ugly nose into our private lives.
Steve Kubby // Aug 7, 2010 at 12:45 am
Thank you Michael, Jason, Richard, Thomas, Paulie, Andy and George………….
AND THE INVERSE
Poop on all those people you have dissed thru the years………..
Poop on the space cadet behavior in 2008?
And those glazed eyed, loopy grinning publicity photo graphs, really now?
Go Steve! I applaud your decision to run for city council. Excellent letter to the editor too!
Thank you Michael, Jason, Richard, Thomas, Paulie, Andy and George. Your support means a lot to me. I am attaching a letter to the editor that I think you may find interesting…
Dear Editor
I’m writing to thank the Tribune for covering my candidacy for South Lake Tahoe City Council, and to correct some factual errors which found their way into an article you published today, via citations of older accounts of my story in other newspapers.
Yes, I was initially convicted on charges of possessing psilocybin and mescaline. What the stories you cite leave unmentioned is:
— That a few tiny fragments of a peyote cactus and a magic mushroom were found in a drawer in a guest bedroom of my home, not in my actual possession. It was Placer County that then ordered for their own police chemist to extract microscopic amounts of psilocybin and mescaline from the cactus and mushroom fragments. Incredibly, I was subsequently charged for possession of controlled substances — that the police chemist had extracted on their own.
— That these charges were thrown in as a desperation measure after the Placer County prosecutors realized that they had no chance of persuading a jury to convict me for my completely legal cultivation of medical marijuana.
–That Placer County Sheriff Ed Bonner personally visited me at the jail and apologized for what was being done to me.
–That when I returned from Canada in January of 2006, to face a simple violation of probation charge and I was arrested at SFO, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors issued a special resolution of support for me.
— That the conviction has subsequently been dismissed and expunged by Superior Court Judge David Nelson, on July 3, 2008, in Mendocino County, California.
Yes, I moved to Canada, with the full knowledge and consent of the court, since my misdemeanor conviction was being appealed. However, once I left, my appeal was tampered with and upgraded to a felony appeal, by judges who had been recused from my case, forcing me to choose between staying alive in Canada or returning, under a new and fraudulent court order which would have meant a sentence of death.
I suffer from malignant pheochromocytoma, a disease which usually kills in 1-3 years. I’ve lived with it for more than 35 years. So far as I know I am the longest-surviving diagnosed victim of this disease, and medical marijuana is the only medicine I use.
Most malignant pheochromocytoma patients die not from the cancer proper, but from a side effect of it: Over-production of adrenaline resulting in systemic cardiovascular failure. Medical marijuana is the only thing that keeps my blood pressure and heart rate in check and allows me to stay alive.
When it was made clear to me that I would be refused my legal medicine in jail and subjected to painful, tortuous death, I sought humanitarian asylum in Canada. Canada’s legal and medical authorities found my health claims so compelling that they issued me a Health Canada Exemption, allowing me to grow up to 135 plants, store up to 13 pounds and travel anywhere in Canada with up to 3 pounds.
Unfortunately, I eventually lost my Canadian appeal and was issued a “Thirty Day Departure Order, at which point I contacted Placer County officials and arranged to report to court on a violation of probation charge. I never “fled to Canada”, nor was I ever threatened with deportation or extradition. Furthermore, my fears of being killed in jail were confirmed when I nearly died while in custody of Placer County, before finally being released and, eventually, officially cleared of any and all wrongdoing.
I’m not ashamed of having acted to save my own life, any more than I’m ashamed of having worked to the best of my ability to save the lives and restore the health of countless others whose medical conditions are responsive to — sometimes responsive ONLY to — medical marijuana. I consider the story as it actually happened (as opposed to the way in which other papers sometimes reported it and the way in which the Tribune cited it) to be foremost among my qualifications for office.
I’ve spent the bigger and better part of my life fighting to protect the rights of my fellow Californians, and intend to continue doing so as a member of South Lake Tahoe’s City Council.
Let freedom grow,
Steve Kubby
PS: Documentation in support of everything I’ve stated in this letter can be found at:
That’s AOK , Jason, Tom, and ‘paulie’ have demonstrated that they are no better than Rs and Ds. I was right about Gray Davis. I was right about Tom Knapp. I was right about Nightmare Nightingale. I was right about Cody Quirk.
Ya don’t like the truth ——— tough, at least now I know! Hey if you are a lying prick, you are a lying prick!
Go Steve Go!
Jason,
That’s okay. Neither, I’m guessing, does he.
I have no clue what you’re rambling on about.
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paulie // Aug 6, 2010 at 8:26 am
plz relay such to ‘paulie’!
I’m not involved in Mr. Kubby’s current campaign. In fact, I just learned about it now, after you did.
I wish him good luck.
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10 Thomas L. Knapp // Aug 6, 2010 at 8:34 am
Don,
You’re the only person I’ve ever heard describe any of his campaign photos as “loopy” or “dazed.”
PAULIE, I DO NOT CARE IF YOU LIKE ME OR NOT, I DO NOT CARE, I DO NOT CARE.
BUT TO CONTINUE TO INFER THAT I AM A LIAR WHEN I HAVE ENCYCLOPEDIC EVIDENCE ………..
[A] CODY QUIRK, HOW IS THAT WORKING FOR YO– USE GUYS? GLAD YOU IGNORED ME ———– FOR YEARS ………
[B] KUBBY, LOUSY PHOTO, LOUSY RESPONSES, LOOPY BEHAVIOR.
WHILE YOU FINALLY CAME CLEAN ON THE 2008 STUMBLING, BUMBLING BEHAVIOR, YOU CONTINUE TO CAST DISPERSIONS ON THE OTHER VERIFIABLE DOCUMENTATION
WHY BE AS BAD AS PHILLIPS, AS KNAPP, AS COHEN, AS HOLTZ AS ctweber.
you can be better than that and you can start by being honest about and to me! Damn it!
Jason // Aug 6, 2010 at 8:25 am
Maybe he just doesn’t like you? He’s always responded to me & I know others never have an issue.
AND YET:
‘….. the serious side of free speech ‘ [Lake] //
Aug 6, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Apologies from National Bridge Road?
What part // Aug 6, 2010 at 7:49 am
“No he his not good about returning any correspondence.”
Richard Cooper // Aug 6, 2010 at 9:03 am
I never had any trouble getting answers back from Kubby.
AND YET:
‘….. the serious side of free speech ‘ [Lake] // Aug 6, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Apologies from National Bridge Road?
What part // Aug 6, 2010 at 7:49 am
“No he his not good about returning any correspondence.”
Apologies from National Bridge Road?
What part // Aug 6, 2010 at 7:49 am
“No he his not good about returning any correspondence.”
I tell the truth and get slammed.
[a] I guess ‘what part’ and don lake do not know the secret Loopy Steve Kubby /’insider’ Richard Cooper hand shake
[b] I can get that low life response from Rs
[c] I can get that low life response from Ds
[d] I can get the low life response from Gruntman
[e] I can get that low life response from Quirk Boy
[f] *after my warnings* how much of an access has Cody Banks proven to be?
[g] talk to any lawyers lately?
Best wishes to Steve Kubby on his campaign. I hope he wins.
I never had any trouble getting answers back from Kubby.
Don,
You’re the only person I’ve ever heard describe any of his campaign photos as “loopy” or “dazed.”
I’m not surprised that he doesn’t answer your correspondence. That correspondence tends to come off as the ravings of someone on, or in withdrawal from, much harder drugs than he’s into and for whom English is very much a second language. Just sayin’ …
Regards,
Tom
I’m not involved in Mr. Kubby’s current campaign. In fact, I just learned about it now, after you did.
I wish him good luck.
Maybe he just doesn’t like you? He’s always responded to me & I know others never have an issue.
wavy gravy // Aug 6, 2010:
[south lake tahoe] ca, [lake tahoe, nv]
and that photo, surely I am not the first to bring this up.
NO POT ADVOCATE, none, nada, ziltch, should have an official photo graph like that!
Hey ‘what part’ : plz relay such to ‘paulie’!
I say the same thing [THE TRUTH!] and me gets tons of grief ……….
ca
is this for CA or NV, No he his not good about returning any correspondence.
If I had the money, I would move to South Lake Tahoe just so I could vote for Steve in November. Considering I’m running for office in Michigan this November, that’s saying something.
I wish Steve the best of luck.
Thomas L. Knapp // Aug 6, 2010:
“63 years old, 30-odd year cancer surivor … and 48 hours after surgery for a hernia, he tools down to the county clerk’s office and throws his hat in the ring ……. Can anyone say “hardass?” ”
Lake: 60 some thing, leaving the coast, returning to the mountains ……… where he was previously negligent and stupid!
Does he still have that horrible, horrible [loopy, dazed] campaign photo?
Does he still not respond to email, voice mail, postal communications ——- and then bemoans the lack of support?
Can any say ‘soft brain’?
63 years old, 30-odd year cancer surivor … and 48 hours after surgery for a hernia, he tools down to the county clerk’s office and throws his hat in the ring.
Can anyone say “hardass?”
It’s good to see that Steve Kubby is still active in politics, and it is good to see that he is running for an office that he stands a realistic chance of winning.