Make no mistake, I’m no fan of Tim ‘I want to control all of DT SF like it is my own Kingdom’ Kant. This is the same guy who got a facade grant from the city to upgrade his building that he sells liquor and tobacco in (yeah, great use of taxpayer money.) Now Mr. Kant wants an exception to the smoking ban.
“We’ll lose quite a bit of business because of it. Because, probably 50 to 60 percent of the people that come in here are coming in to smoke a cigar. So, we’ll lose that business there’s no doubt,” Kant said.Â
What part of smoking ban do you not understand Tim? The only way the smoking ban will be successful is if it applys to ALL drinking, eating and gambling establishments. Besides the ban would not stop you from selling cigars and people would still be able to smoke on your patio that covers almost all of the 11th-10th Phillips Avenue block.
If the ban passes I hope the legislators supporting it have enough sense to tell Mr. Kant, no exceptions. Besides, if it does not pass and it gets on the ballot, you’ll be screwed for sure, because it will be much stricter than what our legislators want.
So let’s review;
– Tim wants government interaction when he needs them to close the loop to teenagers so he can open his high-flalooting bar.
– Tim wants government interaction when he needs FREE money to replace windows on his tobacco shop and bar.
– Tim doesn’t want government interaction when he may have to follow rules that every single other establishment like his will have to.
What a doofus.
I had a post all typed up for this, and you beat me to it. You need to get a job, mister.
I would like nothing more than for Doucheez to suffer for the smoking ban. But I have a feeling that he and the other downtown elite will piss and moan enough to get some kind of exception.
I like the part where he says,”Stogeez Cigar Lounge in downtown Sioux Falls is one of only a few bars of its kind in South Dakota”. I guess your douche bag friends will have to find somewhere else to knaw on their phallic symbols. Suck it, Kant.
Would this ban apply to the smoke shop too? Seems a bit silly to have a non-smoking smoke shop. Just a little sillier, in fact, than a non-smoking cigar bar.
AG- email your views, and I’ll stick it in this post under ‘AG’s TAKE’.
GoD- I guess he will have to change the name to ‘Crybabeez’ besides, people will still be able to smoke on the patio.
I scrubbed it when I saw you had posted.. I summed it up with the “Suck it, Kant”
How ironic that 99.99% of all other businesses will have to follow the smoking ban, but he shouldn’t have to. What an arrogant prick.
Stogeez is only a cool place for one reason – they had the homebrewing contest there a while back. Regular folks were drinking great home brew and having a good time. Now it seems like every time we go by there its the same wannabe yuppies drinking wine and smoking over-priced cigars.
I think if he changes it into a social club he will not have to follow the ban. I heard that they will be exempt since they do not ‘sell’ alcohol to their members.
lets see how long it lasts as a social club for rich douche bags. He’ll skirt a ban for as long as he can, but ultimately it won’t survive. The day it closes, we should PARTAY!
He’ll figure out a way around it. He must have dirt on someone in high places.