{"id":399,"date":"2011-04-12T22:29:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T02:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2011-04-12T22:29:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T02:29:49","slug":"sunday-package-sales-bill-goes-to-the-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/04\/12\/sunday-package-sales-bill-goes-to-the-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday package sales bill goes to the governor!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"269\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/03\/06\/savannah-stopover-preview-7-sanders-bohlke\/window-17\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/window6-e1299440530555.jpg?fit=67%2C77\" data-orig-size=\"67,77\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D40&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1244646881&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;38&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"window\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/window6-e1299440530555.jpg?fit=67%2C77\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/window6-e1299440530555.jpg?fit=67%2C77\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/window6-e1299440530555.jpg?resize=67%2C77\" alt=\"\" title=\"window\" width=\"67\" height=\"77\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-269\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Sorry to sound so excited about something so relatively minor, but it&#8217;s easy to grasp at anything positive that comes out of the Georgia legislature these days. Like many others, I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/02\/15\/sunday-package-sales-probably-dead-again-this-year-in-georgia-state-legislature\/\">assumed<\/a> that the bill to allow local governments to call for ballot referendums on Sunday package beer, wine, liquor sales was dead, again, for the 2011 legislative session.<\/p>\n<p>But over the last couple of weeks, there&#8217;s been a renewed push for Senate Bill 10, which tonight overwhelmingly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/georgia-politics-elections\/house-gives-final-passage-907162.html\">passed<\/a> the Georgia house 127-44. How can a bill that has so much support come so close to stalling? The powerful lobby of religious conservatives in the state exerted a lot of pressure on Republican lawmakers, especially in the senate, and that almost killed this relatively minor step. I say &#8220;relatively minor&#8221; because Georgia is only one of three states that allows absolutely no Sunday package sales, and because many municipalities will not put the measure on the ballot. Those that do &#8212; or even consider it &#8212; will no doubt face considerable pressure from religious conservatives. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, Georgians can already buy alcohol by the drink at restaurants on Sunday, and the ban on package sales has been a burdensome limit on dealers &#8212; large and small &#8212; who are forced to stock and cool product that they are not allowed to sell one day out of every seven.<\/p>\n<p>Since Savannah holds municipal elections in 2011, I hope the city council will quickly move to put the measure on the ballot. Gov. Deal has already indicated he will sign it.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to sound so excited about something so relatively minor, but it&#8217;s easy to grasp at anything positive that comes out of the Georgia legislature these days. Like many others, I had assumed that the bill to allow local governments&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2011\/04\/12\/sunday-package-sales-bill-goes-to-the-governor\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-6r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}