KVRR Local News May 24, 2021 Kevin Shores (FOX9) MINNEAPOLIS – A blind and permanently disabled Minnesota veteran from Moorhead says a Republican operative deceived him into becoming part of a GOP strategy to use pro-marijuana political parties to siphon off votes from Democratic candidates. Kevin “NeSe” Shores, of Moorhead who suffers from Gulf War illness and uses a wheelchair, used cannabis to get off painkillers. He ran for Congress on the Grassroots Legalize Cannabis Party ticket last year, and told KMSP-TV for a story that aired Sunday that he assumed the person recruiting him was from that party. “I was under the impression he was a part of that political party,” Shores said. “That was my assumption.”