St. Louis Wing Week Returns April 8-15, 2024

Butt Heads (StL County)


St. Louis County	SUPPORT BAN? (Y/N/U)	SMOKER? (S/NS/Q)	PACKS (#/day)	BRAND	YRS SMOKED (#)	TIMES TRIED TO QUIT (� = SUCCESS)
NAME/TITLE
Charlie Dooley, County Executive	Y^S	Q	n/c	n/c	n/c	n/c
Garry Earls (Dooley - Chief Operating Officer)	Y^S	NS
Mike Jones (Dooley - Senior Policy Advisor)¹	n/c	NS
Darin Cline (Dooley - Dir., Intergovernmental Affairs)	Y^S	NS
Mac Scott (Dooley - Communications)²	Y^S	Q	"A lot"	"I don't remember"	n/c	1^�
(Council 1) Hazel Erby	BUTT HEAD
(2) Kathleen Kelly Burkett	BUTT HEAD
(3) Colleen Wasinger	BUTT HEAD
(4) Michael O'Mara	BUTT HEAD
(5) Barbara Fraser³	Y	NS
(6) Steve Stenger	BUTT HEAD
(7) Greg Quinn	BUTT HEAD
Robert McCulloch, Prosecutor	BUTT HEAD
Joan Gilmer, Circuit Clerk	U	NS
¹I could never figure out how to inhale — it was too much damn work! But I did think it looked cool with a drink and in the movies after sex. I never went there, though.
²I had visions of my grandfather dying of emphysema. And I reached a point where I realized I wasn't going to live forever.
³I went to Ireland last year, which has a ban, and was quite frankly flabbergasted. It did not seem to have a negative effect at all in a place where smoking is so much a part of the culture. The restaurants and bars were full of people.
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Darin Cline, St. Louis County director of intergovernmental affairs When my father got married to my stepmother, they had to cut a deal. She had to stop smoking and I think he had to sleep on flowered sheets. That was the Seventies. I've never seen my stepmother smoke since. I tried it once, but people said I didn't look cool.

Mike Jones, St. Louis County senior policy aide There was a time when smokers smoked in front of people who didn't. And now people who smoke excuse themselves to go smoke someplace else. So as a nonsmoker, I don't see myself put upon by smokers. There's a whole lot of other behaviors that don't make a lot of sense to me. Like this notion of having a constitutional right to shoot a deer with an AK-47 is insane. I think that all the Kool-Aid drinkers on the Second Amendment are way more dangerous to civilized society than the Marlboro Man. I'd outlaw assault weapons and automatic pistols before I outlawed cigarettes.