Anti-liquor meeting held today
With the pro-liquor movement already in full swing for the upcoming city referendum this November, opponents of legal liquor in McMinnville will come together today in an effort to stop the initiative.
According to Kirk Brothers, Minister at Central Church of Christ and staunch anti-liquor activist, an organizational meeting for Citizens for a Safer Community, will be at Central Church of Christ at 2 p.m. today.
“It will be an organizational meeting just to get things going,” Brothers said, noting a chairperson would likely be named to head the effort. “We’ll be discussing advertising strategies and how we’ll go about this.”
Brothers said the group will start out using some of the signs left over from the last referendum in 2000 when liquor was defeated by 10 votes. The CSC is asking all interested persons to attend in the hope of getting the movement off to a fast start seeing the referendum is about 45 days away.
During the last referendum, the CSC outspent both mayoral candidates combined in its effort to fight legalized liquor by the drink while pro-liquor forces reported spending no money on their campaign.