The time has come for McCaysville voters to decide who will lead their city for the next four years and whether or not beer and wine will be sold in restaurants on Sundays.
Polls will be open Tuesday, November 5, from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. for citizens to exercise their all-important right to vote.
The jobs of the mayor and council are critical. These elected must decide how tax money will be spent and how citizens will best be served. Voters must decide who will best carry out this mission.
The beer and wine question of alcohol sales on Sunday has raised the normal debate in addition to concern over the ballot wording.
The words “distilled spirits” appear in the ballot question. These words mean liquor under Georgia law. But the law also requires the words on the ballot when Sunday sales of beer and wine are the voting topic.
The Georgia Senate did an extremely bad thing here – the wording came from them – because the ballot question says something local officials say it is not designed to say.
Voters in favor of Sunday sales must decide if they trust the new mayor and council, and future ones, to always abide by the beer and wine only promise, or if they will be opening a legal door to liquor sales.
Whoever your choice, whatever your opinion on Sunday sales, if you are a McCaysville voter, go vote. It’s your right and it’s also your duty.
Rights that are not exercised disappear.