It is good to see that we may finally have a referendum on whether the citizens of this city want to approve packaged alcohol sales or not within the Lubbock city limits.
We congratulate the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce for taking the lead on this one. We also applaud their desire to bring the issue to the forefront instead of leaving it in the background and shadows where it has always remained.
The Chamber has organized a “Let Lubbock Vote” committee which will be responsible for organizing a petition drive to secure the needed number of signatures to trigger an election.
According to story on local NewsChannel 11; “Chamber leaders announced they would lead a drive to put alcohol sales to a vote on August 12th. They need more than 19,000 signatures for a petition drive in all of Lubbock County. It would be more than 16,000 signatures for just the city of Lubbock”.
Regardless of how one feels about the issue; we strongly believe that the issue should be put to Lubbock voters once and for all. We see the changes which are taken place all around us; like the increased development in Wolfforth and question whether or not this city is leaving some tax dollars on the table by not making some changes.
In this case; we are of the opinion that Lubbock voters should be given the opportunity to let their voice be heard.
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M Gutierrez
Good for El Editor. I have always wondered a little of the "anti-alcohol" really meant "anti-Catholic," which in this part of the world also can mean "anti-Latino."
Did anyone see the news video from the Lubbock Area Baptist Association meeting the other day? There were no faces I saw like mine--Latino and young. There werent even that many young Anglo faces for that matter.
I would be fine with El Editor printing this comment as a Reader Letter too.
(2008-09-14, 10:57:10)
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