Fenton Woman Files ADA Complaint Against Missouri House for Smoking Policy

Rep. Jeanette Mott Oxford (D-St. Louis) distributed a complaint filed this week by a Fenton woman named Rossie Judd alleging that the Missouri House's decision to allow smoking violated the Americans with Disabilites Act. 

In her complaint to the chamber's ADA coordinator, Judd alleged that the decision to allow smoking means she is unable to gain "meaningful access" to her elected leaders because of breathing disability.  

Oxford maintains that there was bipartisan support for a rule change prohibiting smoking in members' offices, but "Majority Floor Leader [Tim] Jones signaled that all GOP members were to vote no instead of allowing each member to vote his or her own conscience on this matter."  It's still unclear why Birther Tim insisted his colleagues vote against the best interests of the public, their staffs and themselves on this matter. 

Judd's complaint to the House can be read below the jump.