Economic prosperity appeared to trump those concerns, however, as Vázquez handily won the November presidential runoff election, defeating the National Party's Luis Lacalle Pou (son of former president Luis Lacalle Herrera), who had made the promise to alter those laws part of his campaign plank.
The laws, part of an agenda of structural reforms presented by Peña Nieto as a "Pact for Mexico," set out to improve a public-education system under almost total control of the teachers unions.
"This is the equivalent of noncooperation on deportation and environmental laws — part of the larger California resistance to federal intrusion," Dale Gieringer, state coordinator of California NORML, told L.A. Weekly.
One was originally a complete copy of Ine's laws, part of British Library MS Cotton Otho B xi, but that manuscript was largely destroyed in 1731 by a fire at Ashburnham House in which only Chapters 66 to 76.2 of Ine's laws escaped destruction.
A working electrician, part-time citizen politician and full-time 2nd Amendment rights advocate, the 62-year-old Republican supports efforts to relax the state's knife laws, part of a national trend to rethink the perils of what many supporters call the misunderstood switchblade.
