Doug Bruce in trouble (again!)

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      1. The Gazette lays out Doug Bruce’s inimitable assholishness in all its glory.

         http://www.gazette.com/news/tr…

         “We were arrested because the city doesn’t want our petition to get on the ballot because it would impact city revenue and they have apparently created a new rule where the first Amendment doesn’t apply if you are petitioning to do something the government doesn’t want,” he said. “And they will use the police as their political muscle.”

         Turns out the doofus missed the signature-gathering deadline to make the Nov. ballot anyway, but it’s not like the law applies to him.
         

         Voters rejected a similar measure last fall and, earlier this month, City Clerk Kathryn Young said Bruce has no chance to get his measure on the November ballot this year after missing the Aug. 3 deadline to turn in petitions with 11,470 signatures of registered voters.

         Bruce has disputed the deadline, contending the law allows him to continue collecting signatures and submit them in time to have the proposal placed on the November ballot.

         Young has said it would be impossible to validate the signatures in the time remaining and that if Bruce turns in the required sigantures, a special election will have to be held, costing the city close to half a million dollars. Bruce has said a special election would cost no more than $250,000.

         What an ass.  

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   2. 🙂

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2. he wasn’t at Sam’s Club.

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   1. What do you have to be doing to get Costco employees to call the police for impeding customers?  

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4. There are many in the online Colorado Springs Gazette forum who are defending this buffoon.  

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   Suppose it was someone drumming up support for Obamacare.  Then is political activity OK, if its for something that you agree with ?
   
   In such a case, would free speech and the right to petition be good things ?  
   
   Would you support the Constitution in those limited circumstances ?
   
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   2. I have to wonder, in this case, if the store is to blame for limiting protected activity or if Bruce really was impeding people from entering and exiting the establishment.

      I am not now, nor have I ever been, a Kenneth Gladney.

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      1. They can tell anyone they want to leave. And you can bet Doug Bruce insists on full control of the slums he owns.

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         1. any more than I doubt that he’s well-versed on the rights of petition circulators. It’ll be interesting to see how Kickboy’s case plays out in court.  

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      2. are two distinct activities. Many municipalities have ordinances that cover the right of petition-gatherers to have access to the public outside of grocery stores and the like.

         I’ve carried a copy of regulations with me when I’ve gathered before, and used it to hilarious effect when store managers tried to run me off. But impeding business and bothering people is not a protected part of signature gathering. Never forget that you are on someone else’s turf, and apart from briefly asking people to talk to you, you do not get in the way of someone who could care less — and 95% of people could care less.

         But the Barron’s annoying implication that Dougie was standing up for the Constitution and his critics are against it is preposterous. Signature gathering on private property that is publicly accessible is a very narrowly protected activity. I have no doubt Doug Bruce does not appreciate such distinctions, since they wouldn’t suit his megalomaniac complex.

         But that’s why most protesting and rabble-rousing happens on sidewalks or at a public park–or else you’d never be able to get into a Walmart what with all the labor rights protestors.
         

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         1. I’m just wondering how the store will prove that he went too far. Perhaps they have (provable) customer complaints or store videotape.  

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