Alabama Town Votes To Allow Alcohol Sales
A small town in Alabama that has outlawed alcohol since it’s founding has now voted to allow businesses to sell booze.
FOX News Radio’s Eben Brown reports:
Hollywood, Alabama: population 1,000… has been a dry town since the 1800’s.
(Duke)�”It’s the Bible belt in this part of the country.”
But Mayor Frank “Buster” Duke was worried with the TVA shuttering local power plants, they’re out tax revenue…
(Duke)�”About�$2,000�a month. And in a little town like this, you know we depend on that tax.”
So the old town voted in alcohol, hoping it brings in a gas station selling beer…
(Duke)�”That will�bring sales tax and gas tax into the�city, so we can repair our streets.”
Maybe restaurants, but…
(Duke)�”No bars, no joints, anything like that.”
And if the booze brings the bucks, they’ll be happy.
(Duke)�”Have one on me!”
Eben Brown, FOX News Radio.