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DEL.ICIO.USVoters like Sunday beer and wine sales, says Casey Cagle’s own pollster
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The bill to allow grocery stores to sell beer and wine on Sunday is in dire straits, clogged in the Senate Rules Committee. Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle has issued strong hints that the measure will still be there when the session ends.
To help squeeze the bill out onto the Senate floor for a vote, the forces in support of Sunday sales released yet another poll late last week, showing that Georgians like the idea of local choice in the matter.
This survey tapped 300 likely voters — scattered in the districts of three influential Republican senators: Renee Unterman of Buford; Ronnie Chance of Tyron; and Lee Hawkins of Gainesville. Hawkins is a newcomer, but the district is the one Cagle represented.
In each district, S.B. 137 received the support of more than 60 percent of voters — even when just Republicans were counted, said Jim Tudor, president of the Georgia Association of Convenience Stores.
Not only did the group poll the lieutenant governor’s former district, but it used Cagle’s pollster, Jim McLaughlin — the one who helped him Cagle into his current office at the Capitol.
“We thought it would lend credibility,” Tudor said.
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By Hank
March 25, 2007 7:43 PM | Link to this
It amazes me that the legislators - when the people clearly want this - still cringe in fear at what the hypocritical Sadie Fields will do to them.
Grow up, people, and represent your constituents, or get out of the government and let someone else make the decisions.
By John Vestal
March 26, 2007 11:23 AM | Link to this
In the March 2 online edition of the AJC, it was mentioned that Senator Dan Moody (R - District 26 N Fulton), an opponent of the Sunday sales bill, was added to the Regulated Indistries and Utility Committee at the recommendation of David Shafer, presumably to help bog it down.
Sunday Booze Backers Fear Setup - AJC
Moody is quaoted in the article, “I would like to see us leave Sunday as a day we’re not selling alcoholic beverages in any fashion.”
Yet, his website MoodyforGeorgia.org states the following in regard to “Government Efficiency”:
*Government efficiency is a goal that is not only attainable in Georgia, but should be expected. I believe that the government entity closest to the people should be the first choice when undertaking public tasks. Only if they are unable or unwilling should a larger government entity take up the task.
In practice, the task should first be tackled by the community or city and if the city cannot handle it, then the county. Next, the state; and only if no smaller unit can possibly do the job should the federal government be considered. This is merely the application to the field of politics of that wise and time-tested principle of never asking a larger group to do that which can be done by a smaller group. It is more cost efficient and the results are tailor made for the community.*
So, Senator Moody, which is it? Are the counties/cities unable to handle this issue themselves, or unwilling?