Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:09:39 EST
From: Ed Williams
Subject: Liquor by the drink
When I was a kid growing up in Wilmington, NC was a “dry state”. You cold only buy liquor at State ABC stores, in counties that permitted them. The common saying was that it was “the Baptists and the bootleggers” who kept NC dry. Now, there are only 4 “dry counties” in NC. We’re growing up.
But now, besides religious and commercial “reasons”, Jonathan (CC3280 # 1) has added anti-development as a “reason” for keeping liquor by the drink out of Chatham County. Gosh, we don’t want more development (by the Big Developers – of course, Big Anything is bad for these left-wing kooks) because this would bring more jobs, and attract “out-of-county’ people to come here.
He talks about the damage caused by development here in Chatham, specifically pointing to Hwy. 87. He doesn’t clarify what part of this road he is talking about. I recently went from Pittsboro to Moncure, and i am trying unsuccessfully to recall anything along the way that looked like “damage caused by development”.
I think it would be nice to be able to go to one of the nice newer restaurants/bars in and near Pittsboro and order a Margarita or a Cosmo. Incidentally, do the religious objectors to alcohol think that Jesus Christ turned water into grape juice at the wedding feast at Cana? Let’s have a vote on the question of liquor by the drink!
Ed Williams