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Article: Proposed smoking ban delayed: City Council sponsor wants to wait until O'Malley is governor, for fear he'd kill bill as mayor.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Byline: Doug Donovan
Dec. 1--The chief advocate of a proposed smoking ban in Baltimore said yesterday that he plans to delay a final City Council vote on the measure until after Mayor Martin O'Malley becomes governor in January.
Councilman Robert W. Curran said he fears that if the council approves the bill at its final 2006 meeting next Thursday, O'Malley -- who prefers a statewide ban -- would kill the bill before he becomes governor Jan. 17.
Curran said he believes the bill would have a better chance of passing if the council votes on it Jan. 22, after Council President Sheila Dixon has become mayor.
"We're in the shadows of the ...