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DEL.ICIO.USMore on Sunday sales, for those with a finger to the wind
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This morning, it was noted that many lawmakers are waiting for a high sign from Gov. Sonny Perdue before they commit to a bill that would permit grocery stores to sell beer and wine on Sunday.
Here’s one possible hint: Advocates for the measure, which would allow localities to hold referendums on the issue, have hired Derrick Dickey, of Dickey Strategic Relations, to help them communicate. Until November, Dickey was the spokesman for Gov. Sonny Perdue’s re-election campaign. Before that, he was part of the governor’s state-paid press staff.
And here’s another: We’re told that, as a state senator in the 1990s, just before the Olympics came to Georgia, Perdue cast a vote in favor of allowing local communities to decide whether restaurants should be allowed to serve alcohol on Sunday. The measure passed.
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By David Sarosi
January 16, 2007 4:59 PM | Link to this
Oh please King Sonny… we who have elected you, pay your salary, are supposed to be your bosses and who you are supposed to answer to…beg and plead that you see it in your infinite grace to allow us the most insignificant of freedom to be able to purchase overpriced beer and wine from the monopolistic cartel that the legislature has granted sales priviledges to. Though we are but lowly peons in the scheme of things, and though the elected representatives of the legislature are also supposed to be answerable to use, the folks who pay their salaries, etc. we realize that we are probably far too irresponsible to handle such freedom.
After all, we have all only managed to survive to at least the age of 21, have completed at least 12 years of schooling, possibly an additional 4 or more of college. We have raised children, worked at responsible jobs, been responsible for hundreds, thousands, maybe even millions of dollars of budgets both at home and in our jobs. We vote, we feed ourselves, we interact successfully with our neighbors in the diverse world that is our society, and we uphold the laws, the ones that derive from consistent moral foundations and the ridiculous ones the government passes as well.
So we certainly understand how such as complex and life-altering freedom such as this may be beyond the diminished capacities that we all enjoy, but if you could see your way, we would all certainly be humbled by the magnanimousness of your gesture.