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(Video) Huckabee Calls for National Smoking Ban in Public Places
Stop The ACLU ^ | 30 Aug 07 | Jay777

Posted on 08/30/2007 4:33:29 PM PDT by Jay777

See the video!

This is a definite strike against this candidate for me. This is one position Huckabee should definitely reconsider.

(Excerpt) Read more at stoptheaclu.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: huckabee; itsbadforyou; mikehuckabee; nannystate; pufflist; smokingnazis; taxthehelloutofit
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To: Black Birch
Going out for some fresh air activities this weekend.

Enjoy them. I'm working a double shift tomorrow so will be indoors most of the day. But since I have a farmette to tend to, fresh air activities are not something I have to plan for, I do them on a daily basis. In fact, I have planting to do before I leave for my other job.

101 posted on 08/31/2007 7:30:02 PM PDT by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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To: Jay777

I suppose he’s never heard of the principle of Federalism.


102 posted on 08/31/2007 7:39:14 PM PDT by BnBlFlag (Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis "Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line")
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To: BnBlFlag

That principal matters not to the nanny-staters. Nor does the concept of private property.


103 posted on 08/31/2007 7:48:54 PM PDT by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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To: Gabz

I just came back from the heart of Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio, the Terminal Tower (walked across the street to get some lunch in there). They have small patios OUTSIDE. I was on the patio with THREE ARMY MEN men in uniform and we were having a cigarette. They sent a Cleveland Police Officer after us. AND I’M NOT LYING! Welcome to the great fascist state of Ohio.


104 posted on 09/01/2007 9:51:13 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady
Link to Ohio no smoking sign that has to be posted at EVERY PUBLLIC PLACE in the state:

I certainly hope that they used the proceeds from cigarette sales taxes to pay for the signs.

105 posted on 09/01/2007 9:58:52 AM PDT by Bernard (The Fairness Doctrine should be applied to people who follow the rules to come to America legally)
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To: Bernard

See my post #104 above. Be forewarned. Coming to a state near you.


106 posted on 09/01/2007 10:03:32 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: AndreaThorn; Whee The People
The majority isn’t always right.

More often than not, lately.

107 posted on 09/01/2007 12:53:02 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Wheee The People

Since reason and forward thinking seem to be foreign concepts to you, would the designation of professional asshole ring a bell?


108 posted on 09/01/2007 12:59:22 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Madame Dufarge

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889134/posts?page=106#103


109 posted on 09/01/2007 1:01:14 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: Madame Dufarge

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889134/posts?page=104#104


110 posted on 09/01/2007 1:01:52 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady; Wheee The People
You and I, along with our friends, knew this was the inevitable outcome.

The stupid, shallow nanny-staters who, a mere generation ago, would have been laughed off the stage now think they have the upper hand.

I have faith in actual Americans being just ornery enough....

111 posted on 09/01/2007 1:29:15 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Madame Dufarge

I asked the police officer if this is how he wanted to treat our soldiers and then told him to go harass some shoplifters.


112 posted on 09/01/2007 1:34:08 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: Madame Dufarge

I am going to call the State’s “snitch” line on Tuesday to let them know what happened, and I will give them a piece of my mind. I think I’ll call them Nazi’s again. If nothing else, it helps me feel a little better. :-) How’s that for orneriness? :-)


113 posted on 09/01/2007 1:51:26 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady
I think that's orneriness as it was meant to be.

Good for you :-)

114 posted on 09/01/2007 3:40:05 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Jay777

Mike Huckabee appears to be a strutting little jackboot on this issue. He needs to be flushed in the primaries.


115 posted on 09/01/2007 4:49:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Will I be suspended again for this remark?)
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To: GOP_Lady
As of approximately 3-6 months ago, that phone number has received over 30,000 calls (reported by the Ohio Department of Health in the news).

You are right to move. Your current state is full of morons, apparently.

116 posted on 09/01/2007 4:51:55 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Will I be suspended again for this remark?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Poll after poll, vote after vote... show that conservatives support smoking bans. Deal with it. I don’t support his national approach, but the States can and should regulate smoking.


117 posted on 09/01/2007 4:56:56 PM PDT by Wheee The People (Go FRed)
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To: Wheee The People
Here's a better idea than strutting around telling people what perfectly legal activities they can do inside their own homes or hangouts:

Smoking Bans Are Dangerous to a Free Society's Health

From the article:

The City Council and General Assembly can nurture that choice by requiring all bars and restaurants to determine their own smoking policies. Smoking-allowed establishments can then choose whether to be all-smoking or to have separate smoking and nonsmoking sections. To help consumers identify which establishments cater to their preferences, bars and restaurants could be required to post their smoking policies at their entrances, and they could be penalized for violating them.

A law like that would allow smokers and nonsmokers to enjoy the environments they choose. If most customers prefer a nonsmoking environment, many bars and restaurants will follow the money and prohibit smoking. But other establishments will cater to smokers and allow tobacco use.

Now go peddle your "polls" elsewhere, please.

118 posted on 09/01/2007 5:07:51 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Will I be suspended again for this remark?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The fact that the smoking jihadis won't allow even a small percentage of license holders the choice of catering to the smokers means it's about so much more than tobacco. A lot of Freepers don't realize what's next on the menu. Or not, as it were...

I'm glad to see so many people repulsed by former fatty Hucklebuck's heavy handed authoritarianism.

119 posted on 09/01/2007 5:27:24 PM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: Republicus2001
How about national mandatory drug-testing for all political officeholders?

I'm all for that. How about a law school level test on the Constitution too?

120 posted on 09/01/2007 5:43:12 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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