All You Can Do Is Laugh

There was a story in yesterday’s Columbus Dispatch that Gregg Dodd is leaving his job as communications director for the Statehouse.

I’m afraid it was amusing, and, from my point of view, quite ironic.

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The Statehouse Again — Dispatch Photograph

Folks may remember my losing battle against the new footwear rule instituted at the Ohio Statehouse (its Capitol Building).

A photograph in yesterday’s Columbus Dispatch thus just added insult to injury.

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Statehouse: It’s Not Just for Ohio Any More

I heard a report of somebody recently being denied entry to the Kansas Statehouse for being barefoot.

So I guess it’s not just Ohio.

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Statehouse Redux

When last we left our intrepid hero, the Statehouse had responded to his request for a perpetual waiver from their rule by sending him a 3-page application.

OK. So, why not fill it out?

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The Statehouse Responds

You all may recall that on March 22, 2012, the day that the barefoot ban went into effect at the Statehouse, I wrote a letter to them asking for a perpetual waiver, citing my testimony about how my going barefooted helps my knees, etc..

Today, 2 and a half weeks later, I finally got a reply from them.

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Sympathetic Statehouse

Regular readers will recall our attempt to stop the shoe rule in the Statehouse. New readers can catch up looking at these earlier entries.

It turns out that the Statehouse really is sympathetic.

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Statehouse Committee Meeting Notes

The meeting notes from the Ohio legislative committee that had a chance to overturn their new shoe rule (but didn’t) are now available, here. They don’t release them until they are officially approved by the next meeting of the committee.

I thought I’d go over them with my recollections.

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My Last Day of Freedom

OK, I may be exaggerating just a bit. But the Statehouse shoe rule goes into effect today.

To “celebrate”, I made my last visit there yesterday.

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Interviewed on KIRO Radio

As a result of my Statehouse story appearing in the Columbus Dispatch on Thursday, I was contacted by the producer of the Ross and Burbank radio show in Seattle, WA. They are a CBS affiliate, and seemed to be quite serious and willing to listen, so I talked to them.

It was a pretty good interview.

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Education, Schmeducation

This is a follow-up to my entry, A Boy Named Sue, updated because of the results I reported yesterday in Statehouse Shootdown.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m all in favor of education, and educate people about the benefits of going barefooted.

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Statehouse Shootdown

The Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review held their meeting yesterday to review the Statehouse ban on bare feet.

This was our chance to get them to invalidate the rule.

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I Still Need Your Help With the Statehouse

When we last left our Statehouse saga, the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board enacted a new and improved shoe rule, making just a few small modifications to what they had proposed before. You can see my write-up about that here, in Statehouse Approves Shoe Rule — Again.

That rule must now be approved by JCARR.

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Columbus Dispatch Editorializes Against Bare Feet

Sigh.

Yesterday’s Columbus Dispatch contained a short editorial in which they weighed in against allowing bare feet in the Statehouse.

Here it is:

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The Authoritarian Mindset

It is always interesting to read some of the comments that other people make to the newspaper stories about governments attempting to make footwear rules. Ofttimes they will be pretty supportive, or at least make sense.

But sometimes it brings out those with a strong authoritarian mindset.

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Statehouse Approves Shoe Rule — Again

First, I want to thank everybody who wrote to the Ohio Statehouse Board (The Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board—CSRAB). I attended the meeting yesterday morning and talked to the members as they arrived.

There wasn’t a lot of time so I couldn’t say a lot.

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