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To: teenyelliott
The anti-smoking nazis have made it to the St.Louis Metro area. My wife covers Board of Alderman meetings for the cities of Wentzville, St.Peters, Lake St.Louis, and others.

These people are organized, she has been added to their email blaster, These people goto everyone of these small municiple BoA meetings and take up all the floor time when it is given over for discussion. This has happened so much so at St.Peters that one of the Alderman is proposing that all open floor speaking by non-residents be moved to after the regular bussiness session is over. And limiting the discussion per topic time to 20min. St. Peters broadcasts its meetings on the local cable channell and they say people are tuning out because of the repetitive nature of the Anti-Smoking Nazi's schtick.

What they are trying to do is bully their way into taking up all of these Board meetings's extra time untill they get these ordinances introduced, usually by an ally on the board but it seems that these small boards are wearing down to the pressure.

As usual they hear both sides and of course as you would imagine the most eloquent of the speakers has been area business owners that are worried about losing business, and standing up for their property rights.

14 posted on 02/10/2005 8:29:25 PM PST by freethinkingman
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To: freethinkingman
What is their motivation? Usually people like this only do it for the money. Call me naive, but where is the money in traveling around screwing with property owners and banning a legal activity?
15 posted on 02/10/2005 8:47:33 PM PST by teenyelliott (Soilent green is made of liberals...)
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