Aw, shucks, it sounded like a good idea anyway -- But Let's [keep trying to] Get Both Georgia's on the Move . . . .

Let's Get Both Georgia's on the Move . . . .

So reads the caption on two of the three pages of my website. Well, it seems that our fellow South Georgia brethren in Valdosta thought they may have found a simple and inexpensive way to get the other Georgia on the move -- Sunday alcohol sales.

"In 1999 , we had major discussions on the issue," [City Councilman David] Sumner said. "People on Council at the time felt Sunday sales would further help us in becoming a metro community. But when it went to the polls, it failed miserably."

[In 2004] Sumner said he had talked to many people -- colleagues, constituents and businessmen -- and few were in favor of the referendum. When he talked to developers, asking them if business would improve with Sunday sales, they told him it was things like proximity to the interstate and infrastructure that made people want to put businesses in Valdosta."

A vast majority of the people I talked to were not in favor of the ordinance, and would feel uncomfortable drinking on Sunday anyway," he said [unless you are a Episcopalian taking communion, he could have added].

[A] 5-2 vote [in 2004 by the Valdosta Council] kept a referendum from voters. (Michelle Taylor's story entitled "The alcohol referendum that wasn't" is in the Valdosta Daily Times.)
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Oh well, once again we find out there's no such thing as free lunch. It's back to the tried and true and, yes, expensive way: transportation, transportation, transportation.