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To: Madame Dufarge
AUGUSTA: "The Department of Human Services is proud to announce that we have submitted to the state Legislature a statewide, smoke-free restaurant bill with broad, bi-partisan support," announced DHS Commissioner Kevin W. Concannon today. "Our goal with the bill is to protect workers in Maine restaurants as well as Maine children and adults rom the toxic hazards of secondhand smoke."

Regardless of smoking/non-smoking debate. WE HAVE GOVERNMENT PUSHING BILLS TO OTHER BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT SO THAT YET OTHER BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT CAN INCREASE YET MORE GOVERNMENT?

Is it me or is there some sort of critical mass starting to build up here? What ever happened to the people. Oh, I forgot, they are sitting in front of the tube, waiting for a government check, unless they are working for the governmet, or just plain old working, in which case they are too exhausted to protest (how convient).

44 posted on 09/07/2002 1:53:55 AM PDT by Leisler
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To: Leisler
announced DHS Commissioner Kevin W. Concannon today. "Our goal with the bill is to protect workers in Maine restaurants as well as Maine children and adults rom the toxic hazards of secondhand smoke."

This is the same Kevin W. Concannon whose department was "protecting" Logan Marr to death:

Sally Schofield, the foster mother of Logan Marr, was found guilty June 25 of wrapping the 5-year-old's body with 42 feet of duct tape during a "timeout," causing the little girl to suffocate.

Six weeks before she was killed, Logan was on a visit to her birth mother when, in the presence of a child-welfare worker hired to supervise the visit, she complained that her foster mother was hurting her. "She did this to me and I cried 'cause it hurts me," the child is heard saying on a videotape, although she isn't seen. Despite this information, there was no immediate investigation and Logan's child-welfare worker failed to make a required quarterly visit to the foster home.

"In Maine, they don't even try to visit children more than once every three months," Wexler told ABCNEWS. "And they weren't even doing that until the scandal surrounding the Logan Marr case."

45 posted on 09/07/2002 4:34:10 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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