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Jump to full article: The Washington Post, 2005-07-07
Author: Eric M. Weiss and Lori Montgomery / Washington Post Staff Writers; Page DZ02
Intro: Council member Carol Schwartz (R-At Large) is relearning the elementary school lesson that sometimes things said in jest can still hurt people's feelings.
That is apparently the case with Michael Ferens , a now-former Schwartz political supporter who was not amused when she proposed a ban on alcohol as a satire on a very real smoking ban in bars and restaurants the D.C. Council is considering. ("I'm also now looking at some other legal choices to ban -- like driving, or sex -- for they, too, can be dangerous to your health and the health of others," Schwartz said in her wink-wink proposal.)..
In a recent letter to Schwartz, Ferens wrote about the effects of secondhand smoke he experienced when he was a bartender and the pain of losing his father last year to lung cancer. His father had smoked for five decades...
Ferens cited his work on Schwartz's campaigns and added, "as a result, I receive this mockery and laughing at me because I suffered second hand smoke, and my father died.
"Thanks a lot Carol.
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