The State - News from April 20, 1989

Ralph Lee White, a former Stockton councilman who was thrown out of office for bribing a voter, announced his candidacy for state controller on a platform of legalizing drugs.”We should legalize drugs because it would stop the killing between gangs,” White said at a Stockton news conference announcing his candidacy for the Democratic nomination, if incumbent Gray Davis runs for governor as expected. White’s colorful and controversial career on the City Council ended in 1987, when the state Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling disqualifying him from the seat he won in a 1984 special election.