Election endorsements

[reality_hammer]

Election endorsements for Ohio:

Ohio Governor: Ken Blackwell. A Reagan Republican!
Ohio Senator: Mike DeWine. He's no John F. Kerry!
Ohio 3rd District Representative: Mike Turner. Dayton and Ohio have benefited from his leadership.
Ohio Issues:

1. Vote yes on issue 1. State benefit funds should not be invested in non-traditional "investments".
   

Comments

[reality_hammer]

Eh, smoking is a complex issue. You can say that separate non-smoking areas are fine, but there have been restaurants I stopped going to because their non-smoking areas were a farce.

As a libertarian one would say great, let the market decide whether that works or not. Issue 5 allows for much of that, but not completely. A couple of things that won my support:

• It is a law, not an amendment to the Constitution. Therefore it is easy to overturn.
  
• Smokers. Their behavior in designated non-smoking areas (i.e., continuing to smoke) leads me to believe there needs to be tougher enforcement of non-smoking areas which this law provides for. My decision was influenced a great deal by this.
  
• Smoking would be treated like a polluting activity, which it is.
  

Libertarians talk about controlling pollution via laws/lawsuits which punish polluters, and that is what this does. I'd feel the same way about alcohol if breathing in vapors from someone else drinking adversely affected my health.

I do not, however, support federal action on this. States and cities should be the places where these decisions are made.

If this law was later amended to allow for smoking in other establishments (such as adult entertainment businesses and age-restricted businesses like bars) I would be in favor of that, too.

I will not, however, vote against "good" because I desire "perfect". That's what makes me a little-l libertarian. ;)

[blindman738]

Well, that's a hell of a lot better reason than "I don't like it!" which is what Laura Miller did in Dallas.