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Support The 2nd wrote:
To my knowledge, not one county has even discussed the resolution in committee much less voted for it. Now before you go off with the "it takes time" crap, consider that there are counties enacting smoking ban and other ordinances. The ordinance comes out of nowhere on a Friday, is approved by committee on Monday, and is in front of the whole board for adoption within a few weeks. THIS IS HAPPENING, but the RTKBA resolutions have gone NOWHERE since August.
Even Doug, an elected Town official who has MORE pull than the general public, cannot get it up for consideration.
We may be making MINOR inroads, but we have not achieved the success we had hoped for. We were misled by the disorganization of the Wisconsin Patriots. The resolutions were a great idea that was mishandled, and have now died. The net result is that it has made us supporters look like radicals and it has hurt the cause greatly.
PEOPLE WANT SMOKING BANS way more than they want OC. It's just that simple. People are PUSHING the government and won't take no for an answer.
How have we been misled by the Patriots? The organization has done everything they said they would do....collect signatures, send in petitions to the counties, send in petitions and copies to all the legislators, copies to the AG, and copies to all county DA's. Now its in the government's hands.
If your tired of waiting then march down to your county buildings and ask to speak with someone on the board. Ask to speak with the chief of police. The resolutions also depend on people taking interest and pushing the government to consider it. The Patriots are only so big.
Made us look like radicals??
Well if encouraging counties and LEOs to respect the rights of citizens is "radical", then America is DOOMED. The state should already be doing that. Also,
is the idea of helping people to be secure in their persons while in public (when police aren't there to save you) such a radical idea?
Consider these things before attacking this organization. I am fighting for OC. If you want to wait around for the WI political climate to change, you'd better bring some high calorie food.
edit: added last paragraph