Politics
According to an interview with Oddities Magazine (ISSN 2159-4708) Jim Rose claims to have been involved in fundraising for the Mo Udall political campaign during a time in his life when he was addicted to heroin. He was quoted as stating that " ran against Jimmy Carter and I was his fund raiser... I used to do fundraisers with like Gregory Peck and Robert Redford, actually while I was on heroin. They didn’t know... actually I forgot to tell them.”
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
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