Washington State Members

[Gravity]

King County Council members are at it again! I got this e-mail from Rain City a couple of days ago -


As if the total indoor smoking ban is not draconian enough, the King County Council now wants to ban all tobacco use (cigarettes, cigars, pipes & chewing tobacco) in all King County parks and recreational areas. The county operates 200 parks and 175 miles of regional trails.

The proposal would help reduce littering of cigarette butts (no matter that we already have litter laws) and health problems associated with secondhand smoke, (impossible to quantify in an outdoor environment) county official says.

Read the text of the proposed ban here: http://mkcclegisearch.kingcounty.gov/custom/king/legislation.htm

If you would like to help stop this latest ban, please contact the King County Council.
By phone: 206-296-1000
By e-mail: council@kingcounty.gov

Find your King County Council member here: http://www.kingcounty.gov/council/councilmembers.aspx
Your voices need to be heard! The forces of anti-tobacco are already pushing the council members hard for passage of this ban. The council will vote on this ban next week. Let them know that this is not reasonable or good public policy.

 

[AlohaStyle]

Yep, was just smoking cigars with a group of guys at a park downtown Bellevue a couple nights ago talking about this...

 

[Hot_Sauce]

Over the last few years this state and especially king county has been passing or trying to pass some laws that are really pissing me off.

This law will probably pass and another one of our rights will be gone.:hanghead:

 

[Gravity]

Over the last few years this state and especially king county has been passing or trying to pass some laws that are really pissing me off.

This law will probably pass and another one of our rights will be gone.:hanghead:

Yup, sadly it most likely will. Starting to wonder why I'm even a member of the CRA. The only action alerts I get are for either California or the east coast, have never heard a single thing about Washington state, when it has had quite a few laws passed in just the last couple of years that are far worse than the small fights they choose to inform me about. The whole situation here is severely ticking me off.

I'll ignore this law, just like I do most of their other hairbrained laws, but it's reached a disgusting level of loss of rights for the cigar enthusiast.

 

[pnoguy]

When I eventually get back to the great state of Washington, I'll continue to ignore laws that say I can't have a cigar outdoors. The zealots are really just on a tear to ban all smoking of any kind anywhere, not because they believe it's harmful, but because they don't like smokers. If they truly wanted to protect the public health, they would have to ban outdoor grilling with charcoal as well. There's an awful lot of carcinogen in charcoal smoke, but so far, nobody has even brought this up that I'm aware of. Perhaps one of you civic minded Seattlites needs to bring this up in the form of a letter to your local representative.....let them know you won't be voting for anyone who continues to allow clearly harmful carcinogens to be released into our public spaces by those nasty outdoor grills.

 

[Gravity]

When I eventually get back to the great state of Washington, I'll continue to ignore laws that say I can't have a cigar outdoors. The zealots are really just on a tear to ban all smoking of any kind anywhere, not because they believe it's harmful, but because they don't like smokers. If they truly wanted to protect the public health, they would have to ban outdoor grilling with charcoal as well. There's an awful lot of carcinogen in charcoal smoke, but so far, nobody has even brought this up that I'm aware of. Perhaps one of you civic minded Seattlites needs to bring this up in the form of a letter to your local representative.....let them know you won't be voting for anyone who continues to allow clearly harmful carcinogens to be released into our public spaces by those nasty outdoor grills.

That was brought up a couple of months ago, I remember reading about it on KOMO.

 

[NickThePyro]

King County is full of pathetic people who have nothing better to do than find something to bitch about and make illegal for some reason. I HATE living here, we have more restrictions than we do freedoms. We are worse than California. Even our gas last week was the HIGHEST PRICE IN THE NATION (60 cents above national average). As soon as I finish college I will be happy to say I am not a resident of Washington anymore. This state disgusts me. The worst was the whole Christine Gregouire having dead people vote for her and having multiple recounts until she won. Then they let that witch be in charge of this state, she should be in jail. If they let that fly, I dont even want to know what non-public garbage is going on in this state. Not smoking cigars is the least of my worries, I want all my freedoms back.

 

[Gravity]

King County is full of pathetic people who have nothing better to do than find something to bitch about and make illegal for some reason. I HATE living here, we have more restrictions than we do freedoms. We are worse than California. Even our gas last week was the HIGHEST PRICE IN THE NATION (60 cents above national average). As soon as I finish college I will be happy to say I am not a resident of Washington anymore. This state disgusts me. The worst was the whole Christine Gregouire having dead people vote for her and having multiple recounts until she won. Then they let that witch be in charge of this state, she should be in jail. If they let that fly, I dont even want to know what non-public garbage is going on in this state. Not smoking cigars is the least of my worries, I want all my freedoms back.

Amen


It's gone so far that I'm not even allowed to legally BBQ on property that I OWN!

 

[Hot_Sauce]

Glad that you guys feel the same as me about this.

And don't get me started on how they want to go after our gun rights:cursing:

 

[NickThePyro]

Glad that you guys feel the same as me about this.

And don't get me started on how they want to go after our gun rights:cursing:

My date with Kent Police is on the 27th to be fingerprinted and have my background checks run for my CPL. Already have the paperwork all filled out and ready. Doing anything I can to keep my rights :bangbang:

 

[Gravity]

Glad that you guys feel the same as me about this.

And don't get me started on how they want to go after our gun rights:cursing:

No kidding, they are trying to change us into a "May" issue state... argh!