Pro-liquor signs have been stolen too
This is a response to Tim Fariss’ letter to the editor that appeared in the Oct. 25 Southern Standard.
Mr. Fariss said, “Around McMinnville, the yard signs which support liquor by the drink remain, much as they did the day they were put up. The signs, however, for those who are against the referendum are disappearing.”
Wrong, Mr. Fariss. Signs supporting liquor by the drink also have disappeared. The committee chairman for Citizens for McMinnville Growth – the group pushing for liquor by the drink, of which I am a member – has given strict instructions that no one tamper in any form or fashion with signs from the opposition.
I challenge anyone to prove any member of Citizens for McMinnville Growth has acted to the contrary. Too, I will stop short of making a lame, unprofessional insinuation regarding what happened to the pro liquor by the drink signs.
At several McMinnville locations, there are displayed wrecked vehicles – totals – giving the impression of being the products of alcohol-related accidents. However, credible research yields otherwise.
Some of those wrecked vehicles were solicited from a junkyard and in fact were not involved in alcohol-related accidents, which equates: horrific and fatal accidents happen without alcohol involvement.
However, for the sake of argument, let’s say all those wrecks were alcohol-related. We then could conclude liquor by the drink, as such, to be voted on Nov. 5, was not a factor because it was not available.
Question: If you are so against what has caused these type of accidents, then why not go after what indeed has “caused” all alcohol-related accidents in McMinnville thus far, prior to liquor by the drink? Just think, these wrecks are history and liquor by the drink has yet to come.
To adhere absolutely to the doctrines of the anti liquor by the drink group, the more vulnerable minds could surmise all those who are pro liquor by the drink are nothing short of criminals.
I wager that on a given night, one can go to McMinnville Country Club, the VFW, or the Moose Lodge – all respectable establishments – and witness the following professionals partaking in mixed drinks: attorneys and judges, doctors and nurses, teachers and professors, CEOs and accountants.
Is it appropriate to say all or any of the above are bad people, criminals, if they partake in liquor by the drink or vote yes to liquor by the drink come Nov. 5? Last but not least, McMinnville certainly could use the tax dollars liquor by the drink would bring.
Charity Jones
215 Forest Drive
McMinnville