Mother Myra
No gambling. No smoking.
No. Fun.
Rep. Myra Crownover, R-Denton, is carrying the statewide smoking ban (gasp!) (get it?) just like 17 hours after talking against the Indian gaming bill (and yes I was there then, too). At midnight.
What's next, Myra? No drinking? No shopping? No mom and baseball and apple pie??
Ok, I'm kidding. Sort of. Color me a little testy right now - not because of her bill, but because I was waiting until after it was over before going to lunch, and she just spent 10 minutes talking about it to no one in particular on the front mic - BEFORE yielding the floor to amendments. So thanks to her long-windedness (get it?) it's nearly 3 p.m. and I haven't yet eaten lunch.
Crownover's calling it an "employee safety measure" - which I suppose is a little true. But really, what it's about is levelling the playing field. The places in the cities that are banning smoking are losing business to the places that haven't, just a city limit away.
THAT'S why the restaurants got on board.
Comments
Debbie Riddle, Linda Harper-Brown, and Myra Crownover are the three most worthless members of the House.
Posted by: Thomas | May 4, 2007 3:05 PM
I agree. I thought the purpose of a R majority was to get government OUT of our daily lives. Go back to China with your social engineering, Myra.
Posted by: Bubba Galt | May 4, 2007 3:46 PM
Do you think we could get Debbie Riddle a one-way ticket to the "pits of hell?" You know, the places where they inconcieivably give people a free education.
Posted by: Thomas | May 4, 2007 4:14 PM
great stuff karen! good blogging from the DMN for the first time in almost forever!
Posted by: Dan M | May 5, 2007 1:29 AM
Dan -
Thank you, sweetie, but ...
OMG Have you *not* been reading Capitol Letters for the last four months?!
/Jesus, what do I pay you for?!
Posted by: Brooks | May 5, 2007 1:36 AM