[ohioman]

Berkeley is a friend to all that is fascist.

[Just another Joe]

The bill is worse than useless but the comment by Andy Ludlow is also.
What has 20 feet from a doorway, homeless people, and politically correct have to do with each other?

"Honest, officer, I was just passing by very slowly."

[lewislynn]

"It's ridiculous and persecutes the smoker who pays more taxes than the average person," said Ray Domkus,

Don't think of it as a tax, think of it as a fine Ray.

[SirFishalot]

Will this include "medical" marijuana smokers?

[hexpoppy]

The thing about all this outdoor anti-smoking---What about the bus,car and truck? A taxi stopping to wait for a fare will emit far more lethal fumes than a whole passel of smokers. What if someone wants to fire up a barbecue grill? or start a fire in the fire place?

[tracer]

But people smoking marijuana are exempted from this law, no doubt...... 8)

[NormsRevenge]

GO SIMON

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Tom McClintock for CA State Controller

[Revolting cat!]

I have it from a usually reliable source in Berkeley that these laws are passed for the sole purpose of generating (provoking) adverse publicity and Internet forum threads such as this one. Otherwise, they are as enforceable as the homicide laws in the O.J. Simpson case and many others like it.