Comments on Advance Indiana™: Guv's Smoking Ban Has State Workers Fuming

If my recollection is correct, the Supreme Court a...

2005-11-21T15:46:00.000-05:00

If my recollection is correct, the Supreme Court already voluntarily complies with the ban on smoking in the State House. If I am wrong, would someone please correct me.

I'm still a little confused about the separation o...

2005-11-21T15:20:00.000-05:00

I'm still a little confused about the separation of powers issue. The executive branch also lacks control over the judicial branch, but it wasn't mentioned that judges and their staff would be exempted from the ban, even though they occupy some space on the Statehouse campus. Help!

Another fine example of what many Republicans do b...

2005-11-18T11:56:00.000-05:00

Another fine example of what many Republicans do best, constraint the liberty of OTHERs!

I should have pointed out that there is a separati...

2005-11-18T09:24:00.000-05:00

I should have pointed out that there is a separation of powers issue--the Legislature as an independent branch of government gets to set its own rules, and that would certainly extend to smoking rules within the space it occupies in the State House. It does create a huge disparity on this issue between executive branch employees and the legislature conducting business in the same building.

Jerame, No, the legislature is a separate branch o...

2005-11-18T08:04:00.000-05:00

Jerame,

No, the legislature is a separate branch of government. The Governor has no authority over them.

WTF? Why are the lawmakers exempted? Are they spec...

2005-11-18T02:13:00.000-05:00

WTF? Why are the lawmakers exempted? Are they special for some reason? Are they not citizens in the employ of the state just as the other statehouse workers?

It's just more elitist BS from our chronically Republican Guv.