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Neal Schurer
P.O. Box 58
Amana, IA 52203
319-622-3214 WORK
Iowa Senate District 30
Republican Challenger
- Do you think we are winning the War on Drugs?
Other:
- Do you support legislation to allow patients
under a doctor's supervision to use marijuana for medical conditions?
No.
- Do you favor a legal distinction
between marijuana and hard drugs?
No.
- What is your position on the use of alcohol
and tobacco?
Other:
- Do you think Congress should establish
a blue-ribbon commission to evaluate national drug
policy?
Not sure.
- Are you interested in participating in
the discussion and development of drug policy?
Not sure.
Neal Schurer
Iowa Senate District 30 Candidate
Drug Policy Forum of Iowa
We are a country without hope. We can see the effects of
hopelessness in our families, our schools, and our communities. I
am a firm believer that we as a people need to return to our
moral and ethical roots.
We would all like to live in a country where we care about one
another. Not just saying so, but once again doing so. Our current
government has grown to mammoth proportions and has virtually rendered
the neighborhood, the school, and the church ineffective and
without authority.
It is my belief and hope that our country's government will come
to see the error of its ways and reduce its size in short order.
Government programs are not always the answer to our social problems.
We, as individuals, hold the key to social healing. When I, as a
Sunday School teacher, see a child who is wandering from the
path, I have a moral and ethical obligation to take that child by
the hand and direct them back to their rightful place in society.
When a teacher sees a student in need of love and guidance,
he/she has a moral and ethical obligation to get involved in that
child's life to make a difference. When the pastor of a church
sees a family without food, he/she has a moral and ethical
obligation to feed them.
We have spent the past forty years or more abdicating our moral
and ethical obligations to the Federal Government. Those
obligations do not belong on the Federal Government's shoulders, they
belong on the citizen's shoulders, both collectively and
individually.
I conclude by recommending a 're-teaching' of American minds.
Teaching, once again, from the American classrooms and the
American pulpits, the glory of personal responsibility. The fact
that there are moral and ethical absolutes which dare not be
violated because the consequences are dire. Until our hearts and
minds change, we cannot hire enough policemen to keep the
lawlessness in check. We cannot build enough prisons to house the
criminals in a licentious society.
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