Called Scheub's office and he seems to be seeking legal advice. I suggested that core political speech might make the non-solicitation clause in the contract in this case a federal civil rights issue, especially with the new tack the Supreme Court has been taking lately regarding campaign donations.
He said he'd bring it up in a legal counsel meeting. He seemed a great deal focused on the unfortunate circumstance that there's an anti-civil rights commissioner who wants to ban gun shows entirely and that the Paul donation jar might have given him some ammunition to eliminate these events.
If this fellow really exists (Scheub didn't give me his name so I can't check), he is an even bigger civil rights offender. From my impression, Scheub made a tactical mistake and might be brought around to do the right thing.
I hope that we end up with fair grounds contracts that don't discriminate against our exercise of any of our rights whether they are 2nd amendment rights or 1st amendment rights.
I'll bet that the "anti-civil rights Commissioner" is Roosevelt Allen Jr.
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Anyone go to the Commissioner Meeting this morning? What's the report? I didn't attend since, 1) I didn't see what I would add to things by asking a dumb, obvious question if it even would be allowed at the end of the meeting (I don't know if ending questions/comments are on the agenda), 2) I didn't know if anyone else was going to be there, and wasn't up for an early solo party, 3) I stayed up until 4 a.m., so was beat when the bell rang at 8, and 4) wouldn't the County Fairgrounds corporation be a more appropriate venue? All I know is that the grounds and the August fair belong to some type of independent corporation, not the county directly. When you rent space to have an event, you rent from the corporation, and they should have all the contracts with the wording. Now to see who heads that, do they have meetings, and do they take input from the public?
http://www.lake-county-fair.com/
I disagree with the characterization that I'm piling on commissioner Scheub. It's the facts that are piling on him. I'm being as fair as I think is reasonable and gave him every chance to lay out his side of the story with me.
I hope that he ends up doing the right thing. He has an opportunity to do so. He sounded like he might. That's a second best outcome but I appreciate that he at least listened.
It's unfortunate that he did not show the instinct to do the right thing without prompting and I suspect that a qualified opponent at his next election bid is going to use this against him. Lake county needs people who will listen and learn but even more it needs people who will do the right thing before a problem blows up into the media. It's not like Lake County is a paragon of transparency.
Commissioner Allen, Jr. has tried several times to prevent the gun shows at the fairgrounds. I think what relly kept them there is a court decision out of South Bend (I think) in which a promoter colleted big $$$ from the city (county?) after it shut down the shows in a public building which is available for rental.
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