My point here however,is that the Colorado Dept. of Health in 1995 was pushing an initiative for a $0.50 tax on a pack of cigarettes. My fellow employees were rubbing their greedy little hands together, assuming that they would get nice salary raises.
At the time I left Colorado, there were at least three law suits against the health dept. because they had been pushing this initiative on government time, which we all know is against the law. Wish I knew how it all turned out as I left Colorado six years ago.
Ah, but scholar, in the "fight against the merchants of death" [gag, barf] perversion and corruption of the law is not only expected, it's consciously sought. Much like the People's Republik of Kalifornia's Families First Commission, aka Rob Reiner's Jackpot, which used government employees to defeat Prop 10. Reiner had the balls to stand up in a meeting and scream at Ned Roscoe, "You're trying to steal my money!" For some reason THAT wasn't reported in the press and the effort to rescind Prop 10 fell, along with any hope of fairness and justice for California smokers.