(Never a dull moment – promoted by Colorado Pols)
He was detained and issued a summons for trespassing in the parking lot of a Costco in Colorado Springs Saturday. No respect for private property rights, apparently.
http://www.denverpost.com/news…
From the Denver Post:
According to Lt. David Whitlock, spokesman for the Colorado Springs Police Department, officers from the department were called to the Costco store at 5885 Barnes Road in Colorado Springs after receiving a call about solicitors on the store’s property that the business wanted removed.
On arrival, the police officers contacted the unwanted parties and “gave them a lawful order to leave the premises numerous times,” said Whitlock.
“Both males refused to comply with those orders,” said Whitlock. “They were then detained, and issued summons and complaints” under the city’s trespass ordinance.
John Wynns, Costco general manager, said Bruce was at the Costco store’s front door collecting signatures involving a storm water tax. He said that Bruce was impeding people entering and exiting the store, and store personnel called police.
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The Gazette lays out Doug Bruce’s inimitable assholishness in all its glory.
http://www.gazette.com/news/tr…
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.
What an ass.
🙂
he wasn’t at Sam’s Club.
What do you have to be doing to get Costco employees to call the police for impeding customers?
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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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.
They can tell anyone they want to leave. And you can bet Doug Bruce insists on full control of the slums he owns.
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.
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.
I’m just wondering how the store will prove that he went too far. Perhaps they have (provable) customer complaints or store videotape.