News Commentary | Foes Hit Das Williams on Cannabis Campaign Cash
Supe Reportedly Accepted $30,500 from 10 Individuals and Businesses Holding Provisional Pot Cultivation Licenses
Supervisor Das Williams | Credit: Contributor
This story first appeared on Newsmakers with Jerry Roberts on August 9, 2019.
TOPIC A: Our spies say that Concerned Carpinterians, one of the key, um, grassroots groups fighting the county’s transformation into California’s capital of cannabis, is poised to fire a sizzling shot across the bow of Supervisor Das Williams’s reelection campaign.
Within days, the group reportedly plans to bash Das for accepting at least $30,500 in recent months from 10 individuals and businesses who hold provisional pot cultivation licenses — and are now seeking the supes’ approval for final permits to grow legal weed.
