St. Paul mayor vetoes smoking ban

St. Paul Mayor Randy Kelly ought to just get it over with -- and change his party to Republican, a party that as it is currently constituted may as well be called the neo-con right-wing party for amoral corporate interests. Kelly apparently can't read the writing on wall, writ large by the Bloomington and Minneapolis city councils earlier this summer. He appears ignorant of, or immune to all the evidence which shows that smoking bans do not harm business over all and often even help it. Except of course the tobacco business. That must be the business Kelly is worried about when he says the St. Paul ban would "harm businesses."