We were really hoping to bring our bill up today, but things just didn’t work out. At least some of the blame rests on the flooding in Montgomery today, which shut down the State House and threw everything into disarray. The legislature had to abandon the State House and its modern computer system for the [...]
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Incorrect information in FTH blog post
In an earlier blog post, Dan Roberts was quoted to explain the situation in the state senate. Specifically, he was quoted to explain the reason why Phil Poole had been filibustering earlier in the session. At the time, we assumed Dan was giving an objective summary of the situation. We were simply trying to keep [...]
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Limbo
Obviously, our chance for the chair to call our bill up and get it passed didn’t occur yesterday. We’re in limbo, waiting for Erwin to be persuaded not to filibuster, or for him to be out of the chamber. There’s really not much constructive updating I can do at this point. The Senate will meet [...]
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Amendment Update
I’ve just received the latest update on the Brooks Amendment. So here’s the scoop. My own speculation was correct in that the amendment applies to retailers that have an “off-premises” only license, while most upscale grocery stores have “on and off-premises” licenses. It would not apply to any grocery store that has an on/off-premises license [...]
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Insanity Plus Some Craziness
What a day in the Senate. First, I heard through the grapevine that we had a very high position on the special order calendar, which was very good news, and that turned out to be true. We were 6th on a calendar of 61 bills. Very good. But the first unpleasant moment was when I [...]
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The Big Week
Alright folks, lock and load. All hands on deck. Get on your mark. And any other overused phrase that comes to mind. The Senate Rules committee has informed us they intend to get a vote on The Gourmet Beer Bill this week. The exact timing is still a little up in the air because the [...]
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Marathon
I was downright impressed by the Senate yesterday. They adopted a special order calendar with 104 local bills and made it through almost the entire calendar. Amazing. There were some tense moments, such as when the Greene County bingo bill was brought up early in the day based on the belief that several opponents to [...]
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Big Day
Yesterday the Senate really worked. They convened at 1pm and started out the day passing a few random bills and going through their usual procedural stuff before bringing up the state education budget, which they debated for a few hours. Finally, a little after 6pm a cloture motion passed cutting off debate on the budget [...]
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Contact your senator today!
Unfortunately, the Senate is up to its old tricks again this year. Once again, they are regularly deadlocking themselves in filibusters and voting on little to no legislation. We are in the final weeks of the legislative session, and our bill is still sitting there waiting for them to get some work done. All they [...]
Bad News, Good News
The bad news: the legislative day today was squandered by filibuster. The good news: the people in the know are confident FTH will get its shot at a vote on the Gourmet Beer Bill. That said, let me speak to the post below. In the comments section there is a lot of anger directed at [...]
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