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BARS GO PUB-LIC WITH SMOKE SUIT
New York Post ^
| 7/08/03
| KENNETH LOVETT
Posted on 07/08/2003 1:49:06 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:15:04 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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ALBANY - Restaurants and bars this week will begin asking customers to help fund a lawsuit seeking to strike down the looming statewide ban on smoking, The Post has learned.
Customers will be able to buy "Ballots for Freedom" for $1, sign them, and have them posted on the bar or restaurant wall where they purchased it.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: pufflist
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posted on
07/08/2003 1:49:06 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: SheLion
ping
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posted on
07/08/2003 1:49:31 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks; Joe Camel
Ping
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posted on
07/08/2003 1:51:22 AM PDT
by
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posted on
07/08/2003 1:51:35 AM PDT
by
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To: kattracks
If they have a website, I'm giving.
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posted on
07/08/2003 2:25:30 AM PDT
by
BCrago66
To: kattracks
The tavern association yesterday began distributing the Ballots for Freedom to its 5,000 members, with the idea that if each bar and restaurant sells 100, they'd meet the $500,000 target.
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If all smokers in each establishment would donate the price of a pack of cigarettes they would far exceed that goal.
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posted on
07/08/2003 5:15:35 AM PDT
by
YOMO
To: kattracks; *puff_list; Just another Joe; Great Dane; Max McGarrity; Tumbleweed_Connection; ...
The majority of the Maine lawmakers have done the same thing. No smoking in bars/taverns is due to go into affect in September and/or January.
Many of us in Maine are working to over turn this asinine law.
Thanks for the ping!
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posted on
07/08/2003 5:33:29 AM PDT
by
SheLion
To: SheLion
And the same thing is being done in Delaware to overturn that assinine law, as well.
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posted on
07/08/2003 5:40:43 AM PDT
by
Gabz
(anti-smokers = personification of everything wrong in this country)
To: Gabz; SheLion
If any of these groups set up a donation site, ping me I'll give $10.00 at the drop of a hat. Heck I give 10 times that each quarter to FR.
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posted on
07/08/2003 5:45:32 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Read Buddy's, (the labrador retriever), new book about the Clintons, "Living Hell")
To: Gabz; SheLion
Happy smoker with happy non smoker dog.
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posted on
07/08/2003 5:51:47 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Read Buddy's, (the labrador retriever), new book about the Clintons, "Living Hell")
To: Flurry
If any of these groups set up a donation site, ping me I'll give $10.00 at the drop of a hat. Heck I give 10 times that each quarter to FR. I would too. But it's a pretty sad day when American's have to start to pay for personal freedoms.:(
Christ died on the Cross to set us free.......soldiers die in wars to KEEP us free.........yet we have to still keep paying and paying.
(Sorry, I had a rough night).
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posted on
07/08/2003 5:54:13 AM PDT
by
SheLion
To: kattracks
excellent... hopefully this stupid, stupid law will be repealed soon... then it's back to RKBA issues for NYS!
regards!
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posted on
07/08/2003 6:08:05 AM PDT
by
bc2
To: kattracks; SheLion; Gabz; Max McGarrity
Anybody got an e-mail addy for Audrey Silk? She would probably know about a site or an address where we could send $s to help this effort.
(I still want my name on somebodies bar wall though!) ;^)
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posted on
07/08/2003 6:10:42 AM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: SheLion
I understand. Yes it is sad that we have to pay but fighting cost money. Hope you feel better soon.
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posted on
07/08/2003 6:26:26 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Read Buddy's, (the labrador retriever), new book about the Clintons, "Living Hell")
To: kattracks
Wexler said his organization will challenge the smoking ban on three main issues: that the law is constitutionally vague, takes away property rights from restaurant and bar owners, and interferes with interstate commerce. Excellent basis for a challenge to the ban, but "Money/Power/Politics" beat "Constitutional Freedom" every day. I hope the bar owners succeed!
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posted on
07/08/2003 7:17:56 AM PDT
by
arasina
(Blank)
To: Flurry
Nice dog....... just kidding, it's a good picture of both of you. :-}
To: Great Dane
Nice dog is correct. Ugly old hairy addle brained smoking man is acceptable. She is a cute little labmix isn't she. I call her a Labradaniel. Some smoke nazi will spot the pic someday and call the ASPCA. I'll kick their butts too.
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posted on
07/08/2003 8:59:35 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Read Buddy's, (the labrador retriever), new book about the Clintons, "Living Hell")
To: kattracks
I would be delighted to contribute to this cause -- and that's exactly what I'm going to do.
Regards,
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