"Gadflies" don't back down

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | August 16, 2005| | Copyright

When Bob Minick came before the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors a few years ago, he wasn't anxious to be associated with the usual government critics.

Minick's business at the time was to protest a county plan to make it more difficult for women to obtain the "morning after" birth control pill.

Though he was now a regular Joe Public, Minick still thought of himself as more legitimate than those who regularly crowded county meetings to voice their concerns and air their rage.

"I didn't want to be close to them," Minick, 80, said. "They sounded like nuts to me."

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