SMOKE!! Run!!!

SF wants to ban smoking at bus stops. Berkeley already does. Meh, whatever. Supervisor Jake McGoldrick, however, has a problem with this, because it will mostly affect poor people. What's his solution?

Find a random place where rich people go, and ban smoking there.

The committee will also take up Supervisor Jake McGoldrick's amended version of the bill, which bans smoking at public golf courses, next week. McGoldrick said only banning smoking at bus stops would constitute class inequality.

"It's usually people that have lesser income that are using the bus stop and people with greater income that use the golf course," McGoldrick said.

Brilliant!

posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 3/28/2006 03:52:00 PM #
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Are you kidding? When I lived up there, people smoked on the bus!

And how many golf courses are even in Berkeley? (Anything owned by the university would be exempt - that's state property, after all.)

# posted by  Anonymous : 11:10 PM, March 28, 2006

 

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