Assorted thoughts:
-- Is it just me, or is Gov. Blago getting wierder and wierder as time goes on? Keno isn't an expansion of gambling? Please. A $3.2 billion capital spending plan? From a state still stealing from Pocket A to pay the debts in Pocket B? One wonders just who is advising that man. Or maybe that's the problem. No one is. He's slowly becoming a one-man campaign chairman for Edwin Eisendrath.
-- Let's see. Chicago can pass a smoking ban. And their world did not come to a smoke-free end. Springfield can pass a smoking ban. And their world did not come to a smoke-free end. But supposedly progressive, educated Champaign and Urbana cannot pass any kind of smoking ban because they fear their economic world will come to an end? Or maybe what will end will be the campaign contributions (and under-the-table contributions?) from big tobacco and restaurant association lobbyists.
-- Is chosing to abstain from a pressing council vote a politically wise decision? Or just a way to avoid voting on an issue that one has not been told how to vote?
-- Bombs in Baghdad. Bombs in Tel Aviv. Hostages taken. Reporters kidnapped. Bin Laden resurfaces with more threats. The war on terror sure is going well.
-- I'm guessing the Illini basketball team will be putting a lot of practice time in at the free throw line this week, doncha think?
And so it goes.
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Don't worry the smoking issue will most likely impact the next set of Champaign City Council & Mayoral Elections.
My other prediction is Mayor Jerry won't be seeking another term.
And for the record, I also hear Deb Feinen is considering an at large run for City Council and she told me last Summer directly that she is opposed to a smoking ban.
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