[Mark]

Like I JOKINGLY said on similar thread-- Get the gun from behind the counter and just shoot them in the kneecap if they refuse to put it out.(/sarcasm)

[Mark]

From other post:

Some DEFY Pueblo Smoking Ban(CO)

Posted by Max McGarrity to Mark; SheLion; Gabz; Just another Joe; metesky

On News/Activism 01/02/2003 5:51 PM PST #12 of 12

Anyone want to support the freedom fighters in Pueblo? Even a letter to let them know they're standing up for all of us and we appreciate it would be a good thing.

Don Gray

Gray's Coors Tavern

Puebloans for Common Sense in Government

515 W 4th

Pueblo, CO 81003

(719) 544-0455

[Hot Tabasco]

Like I JOKINGLY said on similar thread

Well, you are a better gentleman than I. I would have meant it.....And when the council establishes the anti-nico gestapo, I and my fellow customers would whip their butts anytime they showed up in the bar......

[jdontom]

On a typical New Year's Day before the law took effect, Brooks said he would have expected 30 customers. Wednesday afternoon, there were four.

Thanks for the Ping, Witness another anti-business state like California, we are knee deep in red ink and the only thank they can think to do is hurt the business's even more, as if they don't know how to operate their own establishment........duh...duh...duh...lets all just follow the leader and not raise a stink....

[Just another Joe]

Actually, Dr. Louis Balizet, an oncologist who supported the ban, had told the City Council that about 68,000 deaths annually are caused by secondhand smoke, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Nevertheless, Davis countered, "If they're concerned about their employees, if they don't have any customers, they won't have any employees."

Number 1, the EPA report was debunked long ago.
Number 2 Davis has it down. If the economy is bad now what do they think is going to happen when the bartenders and barmaids get let go because there isn't enough business?

[TigersEye]

A Denver group is gathering petition signatures for an ordinance, but the matter has not yet come before the City Council.

Here are the people who need to be kneecapped.

[Colorado Doug]

Pueblo Smoking Ban Ping

This is my first "ping" hope I did it right.

[Hot Tabasco]

So whats up with the following:


Realtors question national affiliation
By JAN JONES
Contributing Writer

One local realtor is no long affiliated with a nationally recognized franchise and another firm is considering dropping its affiliation as well.

Keller Williams Realty, the fifth largest real estate company in the nation, according to The Wall Street Journal, will no longer have a presence in Pueblo. Additionally, owners of Jones-Healy Better Homes and Gardens Realtors also are considering discontinuing ties with their nationally franchised real-estate firm.

Less than 10 months after announcing they would open a Keller Williams office in the downtown area, Desiree Moreno, the local agency’s owner, said she decided not to renew her contract with the company. Moreno’s business partner is Oliver Frasconna, a well-known Boulder attorney who also teaches law and broker transition courses.

This week, the business name will be changed to Ideal Paradigm Realty, but the firm’s offices will remain at 600 N. Main St., its present location.

"We can’t afford the royalties any longer...since the major increase in January, everything we make goes out the door," Moreno said. "The biggest problem was we didn’t get the support we were promised," she said.

The chief executive officer for Keller Williams’ national office, however, offered a different view. Mo Anderson, president and chief executive officer of Keller Williams Realty National in Austin, Texas, issued this statement: "We understand that Ms. Moreno is very disappointed, but we have worked with her for many months to see her do well.

We have also reviewed her performance very carefully and we are confident in our analysis of her performance and our request for her to leave the system."

Last month, Moreno announced that Betty Martinez Realtors would join Keller Williams, but that merger has since fallen through.

Moreno said everything for her new company is on schedule. According to Moreno, she has 13 agents and the Jones Real Estate School will continue conducting evening classes in her building. The next class begins May 4.

In a related item, Jones-Healy Better Homes and Gardens Realtors, with offices in the Pueblo Mall, also is considering shedding its current national affiliation, according to Dan Molello, an owner of the company.

The Better Homes and Gardens name has been associated with that agency for the past 10 years. Jones-Healy also has offices at 119 W. Sixth St., and in Colorado City.

Molello said his agency is considering other options, which include another national franchise agreement or becoming an independent realtor.

"It was a very good company for us ... one of the major things was that Better Homes and Gardens was purchased by GMAC (General Motors Acceptance Corp.) and that created questions where we were concerned and brought a lot of other things to light," Molello said. "There’s some real opportunities out there for us," he added.

Jones-Healy is considered one of the oldest full-service real estate firms in Pueblo. Molello and Annette Copeland, along with other stockholders, purchased the 30-year-old company a year ago.

Although others at Jones-Healy said the Better Homes and Gardens name would be dropped by April 1, Molello declined to give an exact date of if or when that action would occur.

[Hot Tabasco]

Mark, here is an e-mail address to send your complaints to regarding Schilling

mrouth@remax.net

[Hot Tabasco]

Sent two e-mails to President, Mike Occhiato and here were his responses:

It will be the people's choice. Thanks for your comments.

It is still a free county.

And for those wishing to point out the errors in his constitutional views, he can be reached at

MOcchiato@aol.com