Congressman Pete Sessions’s seat is one the Democratic Party hopes to flip in November, and it’s not alone. A pro-marijuana political action committee also wants Sessions out of his seat.
Rob Kampia, the co-founder of the lobbying group Marijuana Policy Project who left in December to create the Marijuana Leadership Campaign, doesn’t disguise his disgust for Sessions and the representative’s attempts to block marijuana reform in Congress. He calls Sessions “the sphincter who’s constantly blocking all of the marijuana amendments.”
“We have to get rid of him to get our amendments to the floor of the House,” Kampia says. “Once we get rid of him, I know we can get our amendments passed.”
Kampia started a new super PAC focused on getting Sessions out of office in November. Kampia says his goal is to make his group “the NRA for marijuana.”
“If Clinton could accidentally beat Trump by 2 percent in that district, and she wasn’t even campaigning in Texas, and we weren’t involved at all, what happens when we have a Democratic surge two years later and have a Democratic candidate in the district, and we have a super PAC in that district?” Rob Kampia asks. “Certainly, that must all add up to something.”