Hallelujah! Bill Would Allow Liquor Sales on Sundays

By Greg Janda
|  Wednesday, Mar 25, 2009  |  Updated 9:20 AM CDT
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Hallelujah! Bill Would Allow Liquor Sales on Sundays

All of this is not sellable on Sundays, but one Tex. State Rep. wants to change it.

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State Rep. Roland Guiterrez is no friend to the "draconian" liquor laws that don't allow liquor stores to sell on Sundays. That's why he's introduced a bill to allow 7-day sales weeks for Big Daddy's and the like.

We think it's a long time coming, but we're definitely in the minority -- a poll conducted by the Texas Package Store Association (quoted in the Star-Telegram's article about this bill) says 67% of Texans think opening liquor stores on Sunday is a bad idea.

We'll have to disagree, especially when you can drop by the grocery store to grab a case of beer, but you can't go get some rum to make that cake. It seems like a double-standard to us...

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Posted Jul 17, 2009
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