Smoking ban eligible to be referred to the voters. Now, about those signatures…

Posted by PP at the SDWC
November 12, 2009
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The American Nanny State Cancer Society spent some more of their donor’s money on lawyers today, only to be slapped down by the judge:

The American Cancer Society argued that the new law, which would ban smoking in bars and casinos, could not be referred because it is needed for the immediate preservation of public health.

But Trandahl said the Legislature didn’t declare the ban an emergency, so it is eligible to be referred.

Read it all here.

Glad to see the busybodies get struck down. Now, we will see it come down tot he legality of the signatures.

I still think it’s full speed ahead for a vote; whether it’s granted by Trandahl, or by the Supreme court on appeal.

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Comment by WilliamNo Gravatar on November 12, 2009 @ 4:24 pm

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good
of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – CS Lewis

Comment by MikeNo Gravatar on November 12, 2009 @ 4:41 pm

Weather you are for or against this issue, you have to agree it is a ‘hot-button’ topic.

This issue should go before a public vote.

I know the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society, have said that they enough support in the state for it to pass. Prove it. Let it go to a public vote.

Comment by BobNo Gravatar on November 13, 2009 @ 7:17 am

Be careful of the fine print on the ballot. The tax exempt political action committee, the American Cancer Society tricked the voters of Ohio into voting for a ban with exemptions, only to have them removed AFTER they were voter approved. If they got away with it once, you know they will do it again. Thank you American Cancer Society, we never knew all you do. The private vets clubs of Ohio who thought they were exempt according to the ballot learned what they do. I’m sure they are remembering them with with their donations and estate plans.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2007/04/30/smoking.html

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