Crossed up on Crossover Day
Light posting this morning, but following up on last night's post and specifically regarding the failure of Sunday Sales to garner a vote ... does anyone else think it's pretty ridiculous that the comparable bill its supporters used to gauge its popularity in the Georgia General Assembly was one which permitted limousine carriers to sell alcohol to passengers?
I would think that a referendum on letting local communities determine what's best for them is dramatically different than, say, letting the guy driving your car around sell you rum and cola.
As an aside, Sadie Fields has no clue.
I would think that a referendum on letting local communities determine what's best for them is dramatically different than, say, letting the guy driving your car around sell you rum and cola.
As an aside, Sadie Fields has no clue.
posted by Jmac at 7:48 AM
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I agree with you, but I also keep not replying because it seems like a less-than-urgent issue. Does it matter if we have Sunday sales?
Well, arguably it's not as big as something like PeachCare, but I think it's part of a larger concern stemming from what appears to be a decrease in local control.
Okay, but where's a Masters Highlight for today?
Give the people what is important. Priorities, man!
Decrease in local control? In what sense? This law hasn't changed, has it? It's just as resistant to local control as it was 20 or so years ago, correct? Or do you see local control of liquor sales as a tradeoff for losses of local control in other areas?
Okay, but where's a Masters Highlight for today?
Sadly, I can't find any aside from that chip from Tiger Woods. No Larry Mize chip-in. No Ben Crenshaw putt and then collapsing to cry. No Phil Mickelson leaping for joy.
Very disconcerting.
Decrease might be a poor word choice on my part. It's a rebuttal of local control, which is something that most conservatives, one would think, would favor.
Ah, Nikki my dear, the Sunday sales issue does matter. I grew up here in GA so the ban has been a way of life. I hadn’t given it much thought until this bill came up. If the government had an honest concern about my well-being, like New York and their ban of trans-fat or the local smoking ban, then I would have probably continued to view the ban as a minor irritation. However, I don’t get that warm tingling feeling with the arguments against legalizing Sunday sales. Mention alcohol sales on Sunday and church leaders say we risk the wrath of God and Christians will die on the streets due to drunk drivers soon as they leave the church parking lot. Now consider this. Pork is taboo to Jewish and Muslim followers, but if a bill was submitted to recognize a day of no pork to accommodate their faith, folks would suddenly see too much government control over what they could consume. Hypocrisy is a fact of life but it seems that our community leaders think that the public may make a bad choice on this issue and that does not sit well with me. I also suspect that members of the GA legislature do not want to put Gov. Perdue in a bad spot, especially if he’s undecided on the bill. Can you imagine the uproar if the bill passed the House and Senate with the people’s support only to have the governor veto it? That would make for bad publicity. Of course, this is only speculation…
I sure hope the Georgia Liberatarians put up some strong candidates in the next few years...
I'm getting a kick out of folks blaming the Republicans for a lack of Sunday alcohol sales.
Did I miss something, or did Dems run the place for, oh, a century-and-a-half? If this is such a crime against humanity, why didn't they fix it?
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