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This public meeting got lots of air time on Long Island's local News12 channel.

It was loud and boisterous, and even appeared to begin outside the building. It looked like a large crowd with lots of people on both sides. Interestingly, there was one group of children who were backing the ban. From what I could see on the news clips, most of them were minority kids -- and the public meeting portion began at 2:30. Shouldn't they be in school? Of COURSE they should! What in the hell were they doing THERE?!

I actually have hope for Suffolk County, as I've spoken to two sponsoring legislators (including my own). Both of them told me they put their names on the legislation to hopefully water it down drastically. We'll see how well they do with that endeavor. Both of them were also appalled at the obvious collusion between all the downstate counties to ram this all through within days of each other. I mentioned that if these separate governments had been businesses instead, they'd all be facing RICO charges. It's obscene.

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