Tishomingo Co. Voting On Alcohol

[HipLib]

Originally Posted by lkstiles

alchol brings crime.... yes people can get it anywhere, but when it's more easily to get your hands on children go unfed, bills go unpaid, and crime increases... crime and death will increase!

I live next door in Alabama. Fayette county is dry but is THE most corrupt county in the state. Just a few years ago the sheriff was convicted of bootlegging on a grand scale. Basically providing most of the liquor in the county. He served a little time in prison, ran for sheriff again and got REELECTED! He's out of office now and the new sheriff is trying to clean up his mess. During the time this man was sheriff Fayette became the methampheptemine capital of Alabama. The new sheriff is trying hard but meth is still rampant. Almost all the honest people have to drive 40 miles or so south to wet Tuscaloosa or west to wet Columbus to work. Fayette has lost all the industry it once had. What business wants to locate in a place where the big wheels can't even have a drink after work?

[IUKAMSNICK]

just thought i would let everyone know that some how the petition that was passed around town to get the voting started has just up and vanished. it's always amazing that when something trys to happen here that might get into someones pockets here it gets lost or the dog ate it. oh well maybe it wasn't a good idea but atleast someone was trying to do something for this town. thanks for all your replies. nick

[oldenfatt]

I agree with the feeling that I don't want my use of a legal product curtailed by politicians pandering for publicity by jumping on the nicotine-nazi bandwagon, but even I don't smoke close to my own children. Non-smoking areas of open restaurants and bars are a joke- they really are like the non-peeing section in a pool. The idea of dry counties keeping alcohol out are also a joke.

I am not in Tishomingo county, but I am close enough to have to worry about your citizenry imbibing near my home and then hitting the same highways used by my friends and family. Thanks for the tax money, but please stop polishing your halo long enough to consider keeping your people at home.

[misconduckt]

It is absurd to think that no one will drink if it isnt available...everyone goes to the line, TN or AL for their beverage of choice and everyone knows it...keeping this country dry is just another way to stay out of the 21st century..this place hasnt changed since I have been on earth..52 years and I dont see it changing ever unless the churches quit running the joint

[Inkedchic]

I have read a lot of posts on here bashing the "Sheriff" that went to jail, not for bootlegging but for taking kick backs from the bootleggers... no one has once mentioned the "sheriff" who vowed after Norris to "clean" up the town and went down for protecting the drug dealers... Now THAT is what is trying to be cleaned up... I would rather have a sheriff that promoted alcohol than one who allowed meth labs to run rampant!!!