Hennepin County votes for a partial rollback of the smoking ban. Who is responsible? Pro-stadium, pro-smoking Peter McLaughlin. I'm increasingly happy that he did not win the mayoral election last month, and I hope that this vote represents the end of his political career.
posted by MN Politics Guru @ 17:52
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5 Comments:
A sad development, but a minor bump on the road to a statewide law.
State laws come from St. Paul, not the fringes of Hennepin County. Watch what the St. Paul City Council does for a real clue where the state is going.
St Paul had better pass the full ban. Screw McLaughlin.
Don't know this first hand but someone told me that Peter justified relaxing the ban as a way of forcing the state to take a look at enacting a statewide ban...I don't see how that would 'force' anything or even if it did...how would that be justification for exposing non-smokers to second hand smoke during the interim period?
We can't figure Peter's logic on that one either, T & J.
Many have promised to "support a statewide ban," including Mr. McLaughlin. We hope we can count on his support this session.
I too disagree with this move. PEter does justify it by saying this will help us get to a statewide ban faster. His arguement is that it took California 10 years to pass their ban and he doesn't want to wait that long. The pro-ban folks promissed Minneapolis and Hennepin County that a full-out ban would get a state-wide ban passed fast. well, nothing happened. Hopefully this will move us faster, but reguardless, it is very few bars that will change, since Minneapolis' ban stays in effect.
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