Flawed road to smoking ban vote

York County Maine Journal Tribune ^ | September 2, 2003 | CHRIS CHURCHILL

[CSM]

I am just shaking my head at this letter. I can't beleive that any government openly allows a LOBBY group to do its bidding! I have to wonder what other LOBBY groups are also working directly on the gubmints payroll in Maine.

[lockjaw02]

I say it's time to call the government on using special interest groups like this to do their bidding. This is like paying taxes to support rapists, so they don't have to work for a living and can just go all day long screwing the public at large.

[SheLion]

I say it's time to call the government on using special interest groups like this to do their bidding. This is like paying taxes to support rapists, so they don't have to work for a living and can just go all day long screwing the public at large.

Hey Lock!!!!

Here is the following letter I received last week. I wrote to the Guv about this ban. Partnership for a Tobacco Free Maine working under the Human Services no less, sent me the following letter. What a bunch of chit! (I know it's dated 26th of August, but they finally sent it out to me last week).

[Conspiracy Guy]

Sheeesh!

[Gabz]

Lock says: I say it's time to call the government on using special interest groups like this to do their bidding.

SheLion - do you have a chapter of Common Cause in Maine? They might just be interested in looking into this blatant misuse of taxpayer money. And misuse of government supplies and manpower.

[SheLion]

SheLion - do you have a chapter of Common Cause in Maine? They might just be interested in looking into this blatant misuse of taxpayer money. And misuse of government supplies and manpower.

Hey Gabz!

You know what, right off the top of my head at this very moment, I have NO idea. Where would I look for something like this?

I doubt if it would help though, since they are all in this together. From the Governor on down..........

What kind of help can you offer me?

[SheLion]

I am just shaking my head at this letter. I can't beleive that any government openly allows a LOBBY group to do its bidding! I have to wonder what other LOBBY groups are also working directly on the gubmints payroll in Maine.

I have had run in's with Guv Baldacci for the past 10 years, when he was a Senator. He HATES smokers. But once I got "smart about the facts" he doesn't have the balls to write to me anymore. He has his POSSE do it for him. The chicken ball-less chicken chit. Gawd, how I hate that puny jerk. I do believe he and Gray Davis are related! PUKE!

[Liberal Classic]

Eder, a Green Party member...

This from the people who want to ban dihydrogen monoxide.

[lockjaw02]

Hey, SheLion!!!

If anyone can raise the issue about Partnership for a Tobacco Free Maine working under the Human Services I know you can. Follow the money trail. These prissy bureaucrats spending OUR money to give themselves working welfare.

http://www.maine.gov/dhs/bohdcfh/ptm/aboutus.htm

I still can't believe the gall of these goons. It's like giving them welfare to sit in a cubicle all day to figure out how to increase the size of their welfare checks from our pockets. Cheeky bastards.

[SheLion]

If anyone can raise the issue about Partnership for a Tobacco Free Maine working under the Human Services I know you can. Follow the money trail. These prissy bureaucrats spending OUR money to give themselves working welfare.

Lock? I have it posted at Forces Maine about Partnership For A Tobacco Free Maine using the Maine smokers TAX dollars to sponsor RACE TRACKS AND RACE TEAMS across the state of Maine! This Guv is ALL FOR IT! Talk about a huge waste of money.

And Maine's budget is almost as big as Kookifornia, and yet instead of using this money for health care for the uninsured and for health care for kids, they are putting that money into RACE TRACKS? You talk about being irate! I certainly am!

Kick Butts Racing

[SheLion]

I just sent the following email to "About the Partnership For A Tobacco Free Maine... "

If you and Human Services and Partnership for a Tobacco Free Maine are SO against adults who choose to smoke, (and also who feed billions of dollars into the state coffers with OUR tax money), why don't you just BAN it? Pull it off the shelves and be done with it!

I would really like an answer to this. If you are telling us that tobacco is such a killer, then BAN it! Take it off the market. Then you will have to go after some other poor suckers and dig into THEIR wallets for your money.

Too bad you don't devote more time to teen drinking and driving. Maine is losing a lot of youth because they end up in twisted pieces of metal from being drunk or on drugs.

There are plenty of us in Maine that are really fed up with your group and the miss-use of our tax dollars that you use against us just because we choose to smoke a LEGAL product.

Go ahead. BAN it! Then you and the Governor will have to balance the budget on someone ELSE'S shoulders!

DL Brennan
Caribou

I will post any reply that I should get. But we ALL know it will be more propaganda, don't we?!

[MrLeRoy]

The War On Substances is built on lies---nothing new here.

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[lockjaw02]

I think it's about time you seriously contemplated running for office. Even if you don't win, you may get some of the issues out before more of the general public on how they are giving cushy jobs to their cronies on taxpayer $$$'s.

Keep those letters. They'll make GREAT campaign posters as you tell Mary Bourque she hasn't lost her right to smoke-free air for she has the right to open her very own smoke-free establishment.

[SheLion]

I think it's about time you seriously contemplated running for office. Even if you don't win, you may get some of the issues out before more of the general public on how they are giving cushy jobs to their cronies on taxpayer $$$'s.

LOCK! I would be in a FIST FIGHT every day, working with those idiots in the state house!

[lockjaw02]

Somebody has to do it. ;)

[Madame Dufarge]

Though I'd vote for SheLion in a heartbeat, she's too genuine for politics.

She's more of a General (Five Star).

[SheLion]

She's more of a General (Five Star).

How sweet, Madame Dufarge. You make me blush.

Actually, I'm too MEAN to be in polictics. I would be in a fist fight every day being around those idiots. And you know it's true. hehe!