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Today's Poll!House clerk disputes smoking complaint
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Missouri House Chief Clerk Adam Crumbliss last week told a Fenton woman the House staff is ready to help her visit the Capitol, even though the representatives voted this year to continue allowing smoking in lawmakers’ offices.
Rossie Judd last month complained to Keith Sappington, House operations director, that allowing smoking in state lawmakers’ offices violates the federal Americans With Disabilities Act.
“The House ... is discriminating against the breathing disabled (and) failed to conduct a self-evaluation as required by” a federal regulation, she wrote in the Jan. 24 complaint.
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JCLifer 2 years, 3 months ago
How hard is it to understand that the capitol is a public building and there is no smoking allowed inside a public building?
JCsleeper 2 years, 3 months ago
Do as we say, not as we do.
wcywing 2 years, 3 months ago
well at least they did not vote away their rights, unlike JC that took away rights of the business owners.
it would be interesting to see how this pans out.
wcywing 2 years, 3 months ago
so does that mean that the legislature can make a law making people eat brocoli three times a day because it would make the public healthier? Obama is pushing his health care bill, wouldn't that affect the public health? the MO house wants a lawsuit against Obama, because he want to pass healthcare law. furthermore, Missouri voted for prop C that rejects being forced to buy health insurance. isn't that against public health?
btw i'm against Obamacare, smoking ban, and a law mandating eating brocoli. just so everyone knows.
Miss64 2 years, 3 months ago
It is called “hypocrite” – “hypocrisy” which means: insincerity; double standards; two-faced. It should “suck” to have persons use these adjectives to describe someone. Especially someone “we, the people” at some point voted for. I truly have NO faith in people in general most management, upper level types have really showed BAD judgment in the past few years and it is disappointing and disheartening, I can only keep praying these people start to turn over a new leaf and start doing the right thing and stop trying to impress others because they lack the experience to be the leaders we truly need. Yes, there is A LOT more behind these words, but this is all I can say.
wcywing 2 years, 3 months ago
well, you can find out if your rep voted to smoke in the Capitol or not. however they voted they can smoke in the Capitol. JC voted not to let the business choose how to run the business. JC voted restaurants and bars to be smoke free, so much for free choice for private business.
mykidsmom 2 years, 3 months ago
For years, I have had to suffer by breathing the air that others have deliberately took upon themselves to saturate with cigarette and cigar smoke. My only option was to isolate myself within my home, as that was the only place I had a "right" to control. Why do smokers think that it is their "right" to pollute the air of those around them, anywhere they go! The Capitol building is a public building, no matter what side of the fence you are on. The public has a right to access in a smoke-free environment. I guess the smoker's don't like a taste of what I have been dealing with all my life...........
Rison 2 years, 3 months ago
I agree with your thoughts on the Capitol building, and they should follow the same rules as the public.However, to say that your only option to get away from smoke filled air and the big bad smokers was to isolate yourself in your home is inaccurate.
Do you drive a car? When you drive, you are polluting in public.
mykidsmom 2 years, 3 months ago
I do drive a car, and yes it does pollute the air, however, I must say that I have never had my clothing or hair saturated with the fumes from automobile exhaust. I suppose it is possible, and I am sure some people are sensitive to those types of pollutants. I still say, cigarette and cigar smoke is concentrated in enclosed spaces, and harmful to those subjected to it against their will.
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