{"id":322,"date":"2011-02-01T14:16:30","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T21:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theloungeisback.wordpress.com\/?p=322"},"modified":"2011-02-01T14:16:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T21:16:30","slug":"oh-this-makes-so-angry-montana-gop-trying-to-eliminate-anti-tobacco-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"Oh, this makes me so angry — Montana GOP trying to eliminate anti-tobacco programs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Excuse my French, but FUCKING REPUBLICANS. FUCK THEM!<\/p>\n

Fucking batshit insane Montana Republicans<\/a> on a budget subcommittee yesterday voted to gut the state’s highly successful anti-tobacco programs. Why? This is a lousy $15 million, a pittance in the state budget, and the programs have been noncontroversial and extremely successful. Why? Because Republicans are FUCKING ASSHATS. Montana’s teen smoking rate has dropped dramatically the last 10 years. Why? This highly successful program is one big reason why.<\/p>\n

Like one Democrat said, “It seems to me at this point there are just random acts of cuts, when there is no reason to do this. We heard all the talk the other day about prevention, and what it’s done to prevent problems in Montana. This makes no sense. Here we go again.”<\/p>\n

That came from Rep. Trudi Schmidt, D-Great Falls.<\/p>\n

I think Republicans are doing this because they see these kinds of programs as nothing but “Nanny State Socialism.” It pisses me off. However, they have no problem with Nanny State Socialist laws telling women what they can and cannot do with their own bodies.<\/p>\n

The one good news is, they can’t cut these funds without screwing with state law. These monies are designated specifically for anti-tobacco programs BY STATE LAW, which means they can’t SIMPLY BE CUT. You have to rewrite law. And we still have a sane Democratic governor with a veto pen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excuse my French, but FUCKING REPUBLICANS. FUCK THEM! Fucking batshit insane Montana Republicans on a budget subcommittee yesterday voted to gut the state’s highly successful anti-tobacco programs. Why? This is a lousy $15 million, a pittance in the state budget, and the programs have been noncontroversial and extremely successful. Why? Because Republicans are FUCKING ASSHATS. … Continue reading Oh, this makes me so angry — Montana GOP trying to eliminate anti-tobacco programs<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,66,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-tobacco-campaign","category-teen-smoking","category-tobacco-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-5c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":469,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=469","url_meta":{"origin":322,"position":0},"title":"Montana tobacco funding bill at Legislature next week","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"March 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a really good article out of Helena on this bonehead Republican move. 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