| 词条 | Steve Alford (politician) |
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|name =Steve Alford |image = |image_size = |state_house=Kansas |district =124th |predecessor = Bill Light |successor = |term_start = January 10, 2011 |term_end = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|10|14}} |birth_place =Wichita, Kansas |death_date = |death_place = |party = Republican |spouse = Margaret (Peggy) |profession = Farmer |residence = Ulysses, Kansas |children = |relations = |alma_mater = }}John Stephen Alford (born October 14, 1942) is an American politician. He has served as a Republican member for the 124th district in the Kansas House of Representatives since 2011.[1][2][3] In 2018 he stated to an audience with reportedly no black members present that marijuana should not be legalised because of African-Americans' genetics and character make up.[4] {{quote|Basically any way you say it, marijuana is an entry drug into the higher drugs. What you really need to do is go back in the '30s, when they outlawed all types of drugs in Kansas and across the United States. What was the reason why they did that? One of the reasons why, I hate to say it, was that the African-Americans, they were basically users and they basically responded the worst to those drugs just because of their character makeup, their genetics and that. And so basically what we're trying to do is we're trying to do a complete reverse, with people not remembering what has happened in the past.[4]}}Alford resigned from committee leadership positions on January 9, 2018 following controversy surrounding these statements.[5] References1. ^http://kslegislature.org/li/b2015_16/members/rep_alford_steve_1/ {{Kansas House of Representatives}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Alford, Steve}}{{Kansas-politician-stub}}2. ^http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/125237/steve-alford 3. ^https://www.pollvault.com/polls/candidate/77898/steve-alford 4. ^1 {{Cite news|url=http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/367987-kansas-state-rep-black-people-respond-to-marijuana-worst-off-because-of|title=Kansas state rep: Black people 'responded the worst' to marijuana because of 'their genetics'|last=Thomsen|first=Jacqueline|date=2018-01-08|work=TheHill|access-date=2018-01-09}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://cjonline.com/news/state-government/local/2018-01-09/kansas-rep-steve-alford-resigns-leadership-posts-after|title=Kansas Rep. Steve Alford resigns leadership posts after blasted for comment on pot use by black people|last1=Carpenter|last2=Kite|first1=Tom|first2=Allison|newspaper=Topeka Capital-Journal|date=January 9, 2018|accessdate=January 9, 2018}} 8 : 1942 births|Living people|Kansas Republicans|Members of the Kansas House of Representatives|21st-century American politicians|Politicians from Wichita, Kansas|People from Ulysses, Kansas|Farmers from Kansas |
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