My name is Myke P. Golben
I'm 52. Divorced with two teenage sons. I have lived in St. Paul most my
adult life. I currently have a condo in the Battle Creek area. I make my
living as a heavy equipment operator for the Morton Salt company.
I am proud to have been a union member most my working life...26 years
Teamsters. AFL-CIO and UAW past memberships as well.
I also have performed as a saxophone/ keyboardist in various bands over the
years. You pick a bar or ballroom around the 5 state area and more than likely
I've played there. I'm probably in more wedding video's around here than Don
Ho. That's safe to say since he's in Hawaii. I played First Ave back when
it was Uncle Sam's. That should give you an idea. I'm currently serving on
the board of the Minnesota Association of Songwriter's.
I also am the president of the Family Group at Lake Owasso Residence in
Shoreview, where my brother Ted lives. Lake Owasso is an Intermediate Care
Facility for Mentally Retarded people.
I'm a lifelong Democrat. Only once did I vote for a Republican...Dave
Durenburger...and that was because I thought him to be more liberal than Bob
Short
who I couldn't stand.
But I have worked on many, many campaigns for DFL candidates.
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O.K.
I have to throw in my two cents worth here about this smoking ban issue
because SOMEBODY should tell the other side.
I, for one, will NOT support Coleman or Ortega for two reasons. One, is
because they are both arrogant self ambitious people. That just rubs me the
wrong way. I get no warm fuzzy feelings from either of them. And now I read
here
that they both support the smoking ban. I have just been blessed with
another good reason not to endorse either one.
I don't like Kelly either. He's a bad boy for endorsing Bush. What were you
thinking Randall?? But he gets points for his stand on the ban. He gets
points for wanting to connect Ayd Mill Road to major expressways.
To smoke or not to smoke is a personal issue and should never be dictated by
government. Free enterprise is at stake here. Why should a politician tell
me what I can and can't do with my business? That's a right reserved by
customers. If customers boycott my business, then it will be my free will to
accommodate to them or not. Government has no place here. This is a dangerous
precedence.
If you don't like the smoke, don't patronize the bar. Period. Alright so
you haven't already.
Give me a break, you people who say that you would go to music places if the
air was cleaner. Maybe once a year. You are not a regular. Certainly, you
are not bread and butter. But you're going to vote anyway and probably as a
majority.
It's amazing to me that a country that prides itself with spreading democracy
all over the globe, we here at home are losing more and more freedoms
everyday.
AND, it's amazing to me that Democrats, (who are distinguished as the common
man freedom fighter), are bullheading this smoking ban push. I am
dismayed...(not to be confused with Le May...whom I would never vote for). I
feel that
Democrats are going Right Wing on me suddenly. I understand there's some Dems
who are Pro-Life...(a term I hate and don't agree with anyway).
Whoa.......what's going on???
I vote too. And I am going to be very careful of who I support. This
smoking ban is the doorway to other freedom infringements lurking around
corners. I
haven't forgotten that it was Levander who gave this state the 3 cent sales
tax. Or Rosalie Butler, who put naked women behind glass. That was a sad day.
And I'm not going to forget Dave Thune benedict arnolding his fellow
musicians in the business. Though, I suppose I just now made him a hero.
Myke P. Golben
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