For those of you not wanting the full story, the gist is this:
On Aug. 1, 2005, smoking bans enacted by the state and the city to protect workers from carcinogenic second-hand smoke went into effect. As an unintended side effect, it dealt a crushing blow to NDAD's bingo parlors - including the Bingo Palace in Grand Forks - whose customers are, by and large, smokers. The parlors had been the main source of funding for NDAD, allowing the group to help Perkerewicz pay for her medicine and Schiele pay for a powered wheelchair and taxi service.
Does anyone find this ironic? Health and "do-gooder" groups spent a lot of time and effort instituing a state wide smoking ban in ND to protect the public from itself. Now it turns out all they accomplished was to make life harder for those among us that have a challenging life already!
Liberals who want to tell you how to run your life simply don't care who they hurt in their pursuit of utopia.