Kelley Signs Pot Petition

Atty. Gen. Frank J. Kelley, the leading if not the only contender for Democratic U.S. Senate nomination, did it again. Linda Ross, 21, of Ann Arbor, approached him Saturday night in the Democratic convention hotel in Detroit with a petition to place repeal of the state's law against smoking marijuana on the ballot for vote of the people. Kelley signed it. Sunday in formal convention of state Democrats Linda, and David Fenton of Ann Arbor, of the Rainbow People's Party, showed the petition around as an inducement to get more signatures. "We even got some from young Wallace delegates," said Fenton. Party leaders privately said the attorney-general shouldn't have done it. Kelley told reporters he still thought it good to let the people vote - and predicted they'd vote against the marijuana advocates. Last winter Kelley joined with some other Democratic party leaders in lending his name to a policy statement widely interpreted as approving school busing. Since, Kelley regretted it and has taken the public position that it won't matter because the Supreme Court will not approve further decrees ordering more busing to integrate schools.