Some Folks Still Want us to NOT Allow Sunday Morning Alcohol Sales......At All......Anywhere

From a constituent:

"Respectfully request that this email will be considered when County Commissioners vote on subject ordinance.   Our two votes, as legal voters in Escambia County vote NO & are against the Escambia County Commission proposed ordinance. We both are unable to attend due health issues & planned physician appointment otherwise we would be sitting on the front row with our face masks. Thanking you in advance for your support and hopefully your No vote."

 My Response:

"I proposed the language change, as right now, as we speak, some stores can already legally sell alcohol on Sunday mornings but the same “type” of store, for no good reason, cannot sell on Sunday mornings.  This is currently based upon such store’s geographic location in the county.  Stores at the beaches can sell, but stores on the mainland cannot.  So right now citizens that want to do so are driving out of their neighborhoods, across the county line to buy alcohol on Sunday mornings (Santa Rosa permits Sunday morning sales beginning at 7:00AM) or all the way to Perdido Key or Pensacola Beach to legally purchase alcohol on Sunday mornings. This is backwards, discriminatory, and unfair;  my support for uniform language for ALL Licensed Escambia County retailers to sell on an equal footing and at uniform times will pass, more than likely with a rare 5-0 vote of the board.  This said—I am not advocating for folks to skip church on Sundays and go out and get drunk.  I am not making a value judgment here.  I cannot, nor can anyone, legislate morality.   But I can and I will fix language that puts some businesses on an unequal footing for reasons that are ridiculous, arcane, and obsolete—which the board’s approval of this ordinance Thursday morning will do."