A judge blocked the ridiculous soft drink and "sugary" drink limits imposed on NYC by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who recently bought the 2nd Congressional District seat of Illinois.
At the same time, Chicago Alderman Ed Burke, the wild spending, incompetent finance chairman is proposing an equally ridiculous ban for "energy drinks" for Chicago.
Now, we learn from sources that Aurora, Illinois, which under Mayor Tom Weisner, has been seeking to be "second to none" for corruption and wild spending is watching to see what happens with both ridiculous schemes before seeing if it's possible to do something similar.
Aurora's current wild spending, incompetent finance chairman, bumbling Bob O'Connor, who has made taxes "second to none" for taxpayers, reportedly said it's "something to look at" if it gets passed in Chicago and New York and "if that's what the mayor wants" since O'Connor, who after three decades is nothing more than a rubber-stamp.
Weisner's regime has a long history of big brother, "we know better" tactics, from seeking personal information of people who attend public meetings to scanning everyone's license plates to wanting auto repair shop owners to provide customer information to wanting to know every hotel guest's credit card information to refusal to provide public information unless they know who's who.
Carie Ergo, the spokesgirl for Aurora Mayor Tom Weisner, could not be reached to confirm or deny the schemes.
However, one viewer noted to us in an email that "as ridiculous as these bans would be, I do acknowledge there's an obesity problem in Aurora. Just go to a city council meeting, talk to the current Alderman of Ward 2 (Garza), Ward 5 (Peters), Ward 8 (Mervine) and Ward 10 (Elmore) and ask them."
Do YOU support limits or bans on soft drinks or energy drinks?
11 comments:
Soft drinks are food, and I think trying to ban specific foods is kinda silly, BUT I wouldn't see anything wrong w/ saying public assistance money can only be used for healthy foods. That could save money, especially since fountain drinks (the kind of stuff Bloomberg wants to limit) are a HUGE ripoff. They cost the store pennies to fill that huge cup, then they charge an unbelievable mark up.
As far as energy drinks, they need to be properly labelled. Energy for the human body is measured by calories produced by fuel (food). These "energy" drinks would be better labelled stimulant drinks. They don't give you fuel, they give you the feeling you've gotten energy so you keep going -- then crash even harder when your body realizes it doesn't have the fuel it needs. And there should be labelling so people buying them know they can cause cardiac arrythmias and other serious health issues.
A few years ago at the Committee of the Whole meeting when they were debating the smoking ban at the new Police Palace, Kifowit, Saville, Garza, and Schuler were falling over themselves in their excitement over the prospect of expanding the ban to apartment building, condos, etc throughout Aurora.
I don't need the government telling me what to eat or drink.
Rest easy, aurora. If Bill Catching wins as township supervisor, you can bet the township will NEVER go dry! HAHAHAHAHA
Portion Control People! The bigger the drink and larger the portion of fat & carbos the smaller/shorter your life span. It is your choice. Education is the key not regulation.
City Council should set a good example. Bring in "The Biggest Loser"! Maybe more people would attend City Coucil meetings to watch the weigh in.
The "Aurora Way" to handle this situation would be to create a "Energy Drink" Commission that would be headed by his Lordship the Mayor. If some kid has a bad reaction to drinking two cans of this stuff, then the commission springs into action......the problem will easily go away after a fundraiser is held within Aurora City limits for the re-election of the Mayor. It's amazing what $5,000 can do.
By the looks of the picture we should ban Carrie Ergo from pop if we pay for her health insurance.
She looks like a poster child for scandal at the library's Food for Fines program...
or she IS a poster child for the ill-effects of sugar-laden drinks.
Real display of class here.
At least it's not the mayor "spinning" her, or she'd have her own gravitational pull.
She left an "r" out of her first name to try and look thinner.
She looks like a Sara Lee gold card member.
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts has nothing on her or they'd still have a local store.
There's a strong possibility she might see these comments if she makes a typo when she visits her favorite web site: Open Line Blob
(yawn)...fat jokes are too easy...zzzzzzzzz
This is just the type of thing that that egotistical, arrogant, blabber mouth, know nothing Rush Limbaugh predicted would happen 20 or so years ago. Now looks like he definitely knows what he is talking about in spite of his shortcomings.
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