Galveston City Council Sucks!

This was going around Twitter yesterday but I thought this bears repeating through here and it really needs to be shown again and again.  Galveston, TX: what the F!  This hits close to home since Galveston is less than an hour away from me, but seriously this is the process for having a business’ right to choose how it conducts its business stripped.  The video shows Galveston city council discussing a proposed smoking ban inside public places.  There was very little thought given to the consideration of tobacco retailers.  So, you can buy a cigar, you just can’t smoke it inside the cigar shop or cigar bar.  What the hell are we?  California?!

I’m not sure where the local citizenry was or where the local cigar shops were to fight this proposal.  Maybe no one knew about it, but someone should have.  We Texans dropped the ball on this one…big time.  The word needs to get out, because while it’s just Galveston, TX now, if it’s not already your town, it could be next on the chopping block.  I’m going to go have a glass of wine and fondly remember the Texas that was proud to stand up for individual rights; it seems to be a memory.

Let’s contact the city council and let them know how disgusted we are:

District 1 – Tarris Woods: tarriswoods@cityofgalveston.org
District 2 – Linda Colbert: lindacolbert@cityofgalveston.org
District 3 – Elizabeth Beeton: elizabethbeeton@cityofgalveston.org
District 4 – Susan Fennewald: susanfennewald@cityofgalveston.org
District 5 – Danny Weber: (409) 744-7025
District 6 – Karen Mahoney: karenmahoney@cityofgalveston.org

Or you can email everyone at once by clicking here: EMAIL EVERYONE!!

Edit: Read this excellent post about this same topic here!!

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