Posted
1/26/2004 09:37:00 PM
by Douglas
Don't rock the boat if you live in a town called
White Settlement:"This city has 15,000 people, and we don't have one grocery store because they can't sell beer or wine," said Ron White, a member of the Citizens for Progress committee that is running a petition campaign.
I can't believe that no grocery store isn't going to open up there just because they're losing alcohol sales, but with public minded, free-thinkers like this, you can see why no one want to move there:
Down the road in this mostly working-class town, Faith Baptist Fellowship pastor David Dye said, "You can find 800 drunks anywhere. I'm not saying everyone who signed the petition is a drunk. I'm sure some of them think they're doing good for the city."
You've gotta give it to them for standing up for what they believe in, but if they think they're keeping hooch out of the town, they're sorely mistaken. They're surrounded by one of the biggest cities in Texas. If they want to buy a beer from time to time, it's going to take more than the wrath of a Baptist preacher.