"A large part of that is because we're relying upon the for-profit insurance industry to provide health care for most people. We need to get rid of that. We can control costs. We can make it affordable, provide better services, and we can do it for all." |
Watch the call for Universal Health Care in this informative video produced by the Justice Party (nka Justice Movement) co-founded by Rocky Anderson when he ran for US President in 2012. |
"Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson named September 9 Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Day." |
"...Anderson thinks the time has come to end it. As part of his aggressive anti-smoking agenda, Anderson says he's ready to dump the smoking pens and, in doing so, completely ban all indoor smoking at Salt Lake's airport." |
"Anderson's fight is personal. It's hard for him to remember how long he was a smoker. Was it 15 or 20 years? Now a self-described 'reformed ex-smoker,' Anderson hates tobacco. The mayor kicked the habit shortly after watching both his parents die of smoking-related emphysema. He also had a close friend die of the same disease. 'Anybody is crazy to breathe these lethal poisons into their lungs,' he said." |
"The promotion was sponsored by the Utah Department of Health and included unlikely political allies like Ray, R-Clinton; Sen. Michael Waddoups, R-Taylorsville, and Democratic Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson. All three politicians maintain smoking indoors has adverse health impacts on workers who spend eight- and 10-hour shifts navigating through secondhand smoke. Currently Utah law allows smoking in private clubs — Utah's version of liquor-serving bars — but not in restaurants or other public places." |
"We talked openly about Salt Lake City local businesses, economic development, the Inland Port, how the state’s medical cannabis compromise bill (3001) puts federal dollars in jeopardy, and the future of Salt Lake City. This is a must watch podcast, because what you think you know about these topics, you might not." |
"Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, once said, 'To put people behind bars for possessing or smoking pot is absolutely absurd...Yes, I think marijuana should be legalized.' " |
"It is time to allow farmers to grow industrial hemp in the United States. There is a huge market for textiles, paper, high protein food, clean burning diesel fuel and biodegradable plastics that industrial hemp farmers could produce using less water than cotton, needing no pesticides or herbicides for growing this ‘green’ alternative product." |
" 'The threat to arrest and force state senators to attend a special session of the Legislature to undermine the popular passage of Proposition 2 will be viewed throughout future history as a blatant power-grab...' Anderson wrote." |
"Rocky Anderson is all for legalizing medicinal marijuana and even marijuana in general." |
"Attorney Ross 'Rocky' Anderson says he has put the LDS Church on notice that it should not destroy records documenting its potential interference with the Proposition 2 initiative approved by voters and set to be the subject of a special session prior to the legislature." |
"Medical marijuana advocates are threatening to sue the state of Utah, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for its involvement with Proposition 2...Anderson wrote a letter, on behalf of the plaintiffs, calling for a separation of church and state." |
" 'Although initiative statutes may be amended or repealed by the Legislature, the almost immediate extreme undermining of numerous provisions of Proposition 2 at the behest of The Church of Jesus Christ is anti-democratic and contemptuous,' attorney Rocky Anderson, former Salt Lake City mayor, wrote." |
"Rocky Anderson, an attorney who’s representing the patient advocacy group TRUCE, said the proposed cannabis act is fatally flawed." |
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"Former Salt Lake City mayor and attorney Ross “Rocky” Anderson said the new version of the law subverts the will of Utah voters while catering to special interest groups..." |
" '...the Legislature not only did tremendous damage for tens of thousands of people whose suffering can be relieved by medical cannabis, but it also demonstrated tremendous contempt for the democratic process provided by the Utah Constitution,' Anderson told Gephardt Daily." |
"Anderson called Herbert’s action an 'unconstitutional violation by the Utah Legislature of the constitutional right of the People to directly pass legislation through the initiative process.' " |
" 'Anything that defeats the right of the people to pass their own legislation under our constitution should be declared unconstitutional. Otherwise it’s totally illusory,' Rocky Anderson, an attorney for the group TRUCE, told KSTU." |
" 'All political power is inherent in the people.' That’s a 'fundamental principle' the Utah Constitution recognizes as being 'essential to the security of individual rights and the perpetuity of free government.' " |
" 'The Utah Legislature...has required the Utah Health Department and local health departments, to participate in what, under current federal law, constitutes a felonious, full service drug cartel,' wrote Rocky Anderson..." |
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"...lawsuit will instead focus on an allegation that it was unconstitutional to replace a law passed by voters and raise questions about whether the changes are at odds with federal laws that still say marijuana is illegal..." |
" 'It took patients and their advocates...and their lawyers, to do what...the Legislature should have done, but failed to do, before they recklessly passed H.B. 3001.' " -Rocky Anderson |
" 'The biggest thing the lawsuit did—besides getting rid of the central fill—was that it actually shows to the legislators that the people are united. The central fill concept was the biggest poison pill,' Stenquist explains." |
" 'We're the first city to have such a monument,' Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson said at the second annual organ donor commemoration event at the Salt Lake City and County Building Friday night. He also said Utah has more potential donors per capita registered on an online organ donor registry than any other state in the nation." |
"Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson joined the Quest for the Gift of Life Foundation to honor four Utah businesses for their outstanding efforts to increase organ donor awareness. The Utah Donor Registry Coalition says the workplace is a great place to educate people about organ donation so that in a time of loss they are prepared to make a decision that could save lives." |
"The $225,000 remodel is being paid for by donations from foundations and individuals, she said. Plans were to be unveiled Tuesday at a groundbreaking ceremony attended by donor families and former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson. About 500 new names are added to the monument each year. And while that poses a display problem, it doesn't alleviate demand." |