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Looking Ahead 2009: For remaining dry, for civil discourse This "No" vote and the "Yes" in the post script brings the percentage in the wet moist survey to 67% for wet/moist, 33% against By Billy Joe Fudge Whew! It's about time to just a take a moment to get my breath. It has been like watching a big time prizefight. A left jab here and a right cross there, a step back, or a lunge forward with a definite winner emerging. The winner is the people of Columbia and Adair County. A constructive dialog in the public arena is definitely conducive to building a better community. I believe that we as individuals have a responsibility to contribute to a moral, safe, and sustainable community in which to live, work, play, worship, and raise our families. I also believe that we as a community have a responsibility to promote moral behavior without falling prey to the temptation of legislating morality. We enact laws to protect law-abiding citizens and society from the lawless and (we must not forget) to preserve personal freedom. As for now Columbia and Adair County are dry. Let all of us who want it to remain that way continue to proclaim the virtues of our present condition.Conversely, let all of us who want our community to be either moist or wet continue to acclaim the worthiness of a moist or wet condition. So until a vote at some future date will either affirm or change our present dry status let us continue to jab and cross, attack and retreat, and dance the dance of democracy. And let us not forget to compete fairly in the ring of public opinion by not demonizing those with which we disagree. Thanks. Adair County may never get around to having a wet-moist vote, but your letter is a very important statement on the discussion. Campbellsville's dry leaders insisted on civil discourse in the recent election their. They did not demonize those who had contrary ideas, and they did not accept out-of-county liquor money. And they insisted that it was not a religious issue. My own policy is not to encourage the use of alcohol, but to be a realist. We believe that regulated sales would be preferable to illegal sales, and we believe that regulated sales would help in the fight against illegal drug use and at the same time tourism, that taking a baby step--making Columbia at least moist--would be a worthwhile change. - ED WAGGENER Here are some related links:
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