When I started Free The Hops back in the fall of 2004, there were 5 states that prohibited all sale of beers over 6% ABV: Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and West Virginia. And only a few months before, there had been 6, as Georgia had just recently raised their 6% limit. Then in [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Baby Steps
I was flabbergasted when the very first thing the Senate did yesterday (after the normal procedural stuff) was pass the AT&T dereg bill. Unfortunately, so was at least one of the bill’s opponents. A filibuster was threatened. While some negotiations took place off the chamber floor, a dozen or so bills did pass, which was [...]
And The Beat Goes On
Yesterday the Senate intended to accomplish two important tasks: pass a long list of local bills and move past the AT&T dereg issue. You might not be surprised when I tell you they accomplished neither. They made it through less than half of a list of 40+ local bills and never got to the AT&T [...]
Also Expected
As we expected, today our bill was near the bottom of the Senate’s special order calendar and also as expected, they never got that far into the calendar. They made it through maybe 10 bills before getting bogged down on the smoking ban bill. Tensions were running high. Lots of Senators have grievances against lots [...]
As Expected
The Senate behaved as expected yesterday. They worked less than 2 hours, all of it spent on the AT&T dereg bill. Still no resolution there. We expect our bill to be near the bottom of a proposed special order calendar today, which means there’s an outside chance we could come up for a vote. Today. [...]
Full Stop
The Senate will convene again today. The legislature meets 3 days this week instead of the usual 2, and they’ll work a few more 3 day weeks in order to wrap up the session by mid-May. Unfortunately, we expect them to spend yet another day bogged down on the AT&T mess. There is a slim [...]