Lawmakers blowing smoke in voters’ eyes

Richard DePaso, Henderson

Thursday, April 23, 2009 | 2:01 a.m.

I can’t believe what I’m reading about our legislators in Carson City seeking to change the smoking ban law that we the voters wanted and put in place. This is similar to politicians saying we don’t like whom you elected, so we are going to put someone else in that spot.

It shows again how our lawmakers are beholden to special interests and lobbying groups and not the will of the majority of the people. There is nothing worse than trying to eat a meal where you can barely breathe because of the smoke.

This is just further evidence of our electing the wrong people to Carson City. Anyone in the Legislature who voted for this, I’ll never vote for again nor will I go near any restaurant that would allow smoking while I’m trying to eat.

In this legislative session, the legislators should be putting in place a compliance mechanism to enforce the smoking ban, but maybe because that required making their campaign contributors unhappy, they went in a different direction. If we thought our state was the nation’s laughingstock before, we are certainly adding to the image.