Pop The Cap, the effort to allow North Carolinians to enjoy better beer, has fizzled in the State Senate, according to the Greensboro’s News and Record’s Capitol Beat blog. According to the blog, Senators John Kerr, Jim Jacomin, and Larry Shaw — all from the Fayetteville/Goldsboro area — led the efforts to quash the bill, kicking it back to committee and keeping it from being voted on.
Why not take a minute to call these fine representatives and find out why they chose to keep good beer from the good people of North Carolina? I mean, what are they afraid of?
Update: Listen to their “debate” here (3MB mp3).
You can buy Everclear but not a good beer??? … is Coor or another mass produced crap beer behind this??? … I thought it was crazy on my recent vacation in Pennsylvania where you can’t buy beer in the grocery/drug/convinence store … politicians should add this to their platforms along with abortion, gun control and gay marriage … I shall raise my glass of “Fullers ESB” in the direction of North Carolina.
Matt
Mmmm…..Fullers ESB….
I think we’ll get the draconian law changed eventually. Just got to get a clue to a few state Senators.