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New Jersey To Keep Alcohol In Speakeasies
All those people who went out to the polls to vote on alcohol laws — dry towns going wet — in New Jersey Wednesday were, well, not really interested in additional tax revenues from alcohol sales. In Pitman, the GOP candidates rode into office by blasting a ballot question asking to allow liquor sales. The Republican mayor elect of the former Methodist camp: “A lot of people were upset about seeing a liquor license (question) on the ballot, upset that it even came up.” Meanwhile, in Moorestown — the #1 place in the United States to live, Terrell Owens Front Yard Sit-Up Hall of Fame location, etc. — voters emphatically rejected liquor sales. The measure failed by a Taubenberger-like number, attracting only 38 percent of the vote. That was partially the work of Baird C. Foster, who purchased 150 yellow signs opposing the measure. “The people who care about Moorestown’s heritage and civility have spoken,” he said. “People say you can’t fight city hall, or in this case town council, and the results speak for themselves.” He also noted a man pushed his wife in a wheelchair to vote, while an old woman walked slowly with a cane. Just to vote against alcohol! So while Denver votes to tell the police to stop arresting pot smokers — joining Seattle and a few small towns who passed similar measures. Hey, the cops have more important things to do than stop people from smoking pot! The people say. The cops plan to keep issuing $100 tickets anyway. (More from the NYT.) |
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