Public Smoking Ban in Communist Newport Beach

The Orange County Register has this article which shocked the heck out of me...

"Newport Beach considers smoking ban in 'public places'"

Wow.

First no smoking on the beaches...which if you go to the beach,

1. You'd know is practically impossible to enforce.

2. By the hundreds and hundreds of cigarette butts found by my toddlers EVERY weekend, is not being enforced.

3. Have created quasi ashtrays in the planters which border the beach.

Obviously, any Councilman who visits our beaches would notice any of the top three things.

So since that is working SOOOO well...what's next for a Nanny City Councilmembers to do?

Ban Styrofoam (oh wait...)

Ok...how about Ban Smoking in Public Places?

Which would include "sidewalks, parks and outdoor dining patios."

And who are the two geniuses spearheading this?

Mr. "Walking" Don Webb who spent his entire working career off the government trough, and would love to see the Government take the biggest role in everyone's life.

and

Mr. "My Own Neighbors didn't want me as their Councilman" Steve Rosansky.

Now...you may be asking, why do I care about smoking in Public?

Other then the self explanatory reasoning that the outside is still free?

I don't smoke cigarettes.

However, I do enjoy a weekly cigar or two, especially when I walk my dog...on the beach...with my cigar (yes, I do live life dangerously.)

In fact, I've enjoyed quite a few cigars in a "GASP" public place with Mr. "My Own Neighbors didn't want me as their Councilman" Rosansky himself.

And he didn't seem to indicate that he cared what our fellow public place patio patrons thought of the horrible Cuban cigar derived smoke at the time.

Wow. To think that what I want to do in public (within reason) can be infringed upon more...

Times have certainly changed.

First Socialism in the White House.

Then, Taxes Bonanza in the State.

and now...public smoking ban in Newport Beach.

I am going to have to start saving up my pennies to pay those no smoking in public and on the beach fines...because I'm not going to obey that law...

Next...someone is going to tell me that you don't have to win your own City Council district to represent that district.