This is it folks. Our bill to raise the alcohol content allowable in beer sold in Mississippi is before the Senate Finance committee. It must receive favorable action by Tuesday 19 February or it’s dead until next year. The reality is more urgent that that, however. The bill is up for consideration in the committee this Thursday 14 February. That’s the day after tomorrow for those of you not paying attention.
That means the fate of this bill will be decided the day after tomorrow!
If we are to have any chance at this we MUST have citizens pick up the phone and call the members of the committee now. This is how democracy works, people. If we don’t get a lot of people involved immediately this will end and Mississippi will be stuck in the neo-prohibitionist doldrums for another year.
The members of the committee:
Dean Kirby, Chairman
Eugene S. Clarke, Vice-Chairman
Sidney Albritton
David Baria – Our sponsor. Thank him for sponsoring the bill!
Terry W. Brown
Nickey Browning
Hob Bryan
Kelvin E. Butler
Deborah Jeanne Dawkins
Tommy Dickerson
Joey Fillingane
Billy Hewes III
John Horhn
Robert L. Jackson
Kenneth Wayne Jones
David Jordan
Tom King
Chris McDaniel
Nolan Mettetal
Walter Michel
Eric Powell
Gray Tollison
Johnnie E. Walls, Jr.
Giles Ward
Michael Watson
Lee Yancey
I can’t stress enough how important it is that everyone interested in removing this restriction to consumer freedom so act now. It has been my experience that legislators genuinely appreciate hearing from citizens on the issues. Don’t be intimidated. These are literally your neighbors. Just talk to them respectfully and tell them what you want (make sure to tell them SB 2851) and why it’s important to you. Please check out these talking points that might help you when talking to people about the issue.
Lastly, anyone with a blog, webpage, MySpace, Facebook, whatever. Please spread this around and encourage everyone to act now.
Butch
Reposted courtesy of ButchBailey.com
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Here is a list of all the e-mail addresses for the members of the Finance Committee members minus one which was not listed. If you don't have the time to call, please send them an e-mail with a heading such as SB2851 so they know what it is in regards to.
dkirby@senate.ms.gov, bclarke@senate.ms.gov, salbritton@senate.ms.gov, dbaria@senate.ms.gov, tbrown@senate.ms.gov, nbrowning@senate.ms.gov, kbutler@senate.ms.gov, ddawkins@senate.ms.gov, tdickerson@senate.ms.gov, jfillingane@senate.ms.gov, bhewes@senate.ms.gov, jhorhn@senate.ms.gov, rjackson@senate.ms.gov, kjones@senate.ms.gov, djordan@senate.ms.gov, tking@senate.ms.gov, cmcdaniel@senate.ms.gov, nmettetal@senate.ms.gov, wmichel@senate.ms.gov, epowell@senate.ms.gov, gtollison@senate.ms.gov, jwalls@senate.ms.gov, gkward@senate.ms.gov, mwatson@senate.ms.gov, lyancey@senate.ms.gov
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