More Madison Fascism
Why do I read the news? It always infuriates me and on a rainy morning too, of course it's going to get my goat (by the way, here's an interesting history of that phrase.) Today, I wasn't even trying I just hovered over my Smart Bookmark in Firefox and the headline jumped out at me. "The Madison Alcohol License Review Committee has become mad with power" is what it screamed at me.
Another fine proposal from the Madison brownbibs (that might be too clever by half trying to mix my metaphors, but oh well) that says if you have a DUI then you lose your bartender's license. So basically, get a DUI and you lose your job. Of course Driving Under the Influence (or OWI's now because there's only one level of intoxication, there's no "under the influence" anymore) is terribly dangerous, but when there's already a hefty fine associated with it, you're going to add the stress of unemployment? Peg Lautenschlager didn't lose her job as Attorney General (but did lose to "I'm Gonna Run For Every Office I See" Kathleen Falk in the primary) when she got a OWI in 2004. Anyway, so now the city can tell you where and how you can work. Wow, I hope we can all be employed by the city one day and they can tell us all the wonderful things we can do in the name of the state.
That's being sarcastic (which doesn't usually help things any) but it's a bad idea to let the government take people's jobs away. The people who are going to be affected by this the most are the people who are going to have the hardest trouble paying the fines, taking away their source of income isn't going to do anyone any good. And it's a bad idea to let these things slip through without anyone knowing about them. I'm not an eligible Madison voter (since my mailing address isn't Madison proper) so there's not much I can do, but I urge anyone who lives in Madison to let this guy know that this shall not stand. Here's his info:
Michael Schumacher
City Alderman, Madison
district18@cityofmadison.com
Another fine proposal from the Madison brownbibs (that might be too clever by half trying to mix my metaphors, but oh well) that says if you have a DUI then you lose your bartender's license. So basically, get a DUI and you lose your job. Of course Driving Under the Influence (or OWI's now because there's only one level of intoxication, there's no "under the influence" anymore) is terribly dangerous, but when there's already a hefty fine associated with it, you're going to add the stress of unemployment? Peg Lautenschlager didn't lose her job as Attorney General (but did lose to "I'm Gonna Run For Every Office I See" Kathleen Falk in the primary) when she got a OWI in 2004. Anyway, so now the city can tell you where and how you can work. Wow, I hope we can all be employed by the city one day and they can tell us all the wonderful things we can do in the name of the state.
That's being sarcastic (which doesn't usually help things any) but it's a bad idea to let the government take people's jobs away. The people who are going to be affected by this the most are the people who are going to have the hardest trouble paying the fines, taking away their source of income isn't going to do anyone any good. And it's a bad idea to let these things slip through without anyone knowing about them. I'm not an eligible Madison voter (since my mailing address isn't Madison proper) so there's not much I can do, but I urge anyone who lives in Madison to let this guy know that this shall not stand. Here's his info:
Michael Schumacher
City Alderman, Madison
district18@cityofmadison.com
posted by Sunspot_Mike at 9:42 AM
5 Comments:
Yeah, that's pretty much bullshit. I too, am not really a Madison resident. D'oh.
Serving alcohol is a serious responsibility, as evidenced by the fact that the city requires licenses to do it. If you drive drunk, you don't deserve the privilege of serving alcohol.
I do live in Madison, and will be urging the alders to support this.
Next time try to be more sanctimonious. You need to have a license to cut hair too, is that a serious responsibility?
Well someone has to take this city/state's problem with alcohol abuse seriously. We are #1 for DUIs in the country, you know.
The issue is that they've been allowed to serve alcohol (it's a privilege, not a right) and then proven that they cannot be responsible with alcohol. It's not as though they are proposing that everyone who gets a DUI should be fired. They are simply saying that drunk drivers shouldn't be allowed to serve alcohol. Makes sense to me. It is, after all, a very easy law not to break.
I'm on the fence on this one, really. The Jurist makes good points, though. I wouldn't want my hair cut by a guy who has a shitty haircut that he did himself. Then again, I'm bald. I'd say a good compromise here would be a 3-strikes type of thing. Maybe 2 (since we all know if you get a SECOND OWI, chances are it's not REALLY only the second time you've been drunk driving, right?). Anyway, I'm gonna have a beer now. It's fuckin' Friday. Enough of this politics! :)
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