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We're about one week away from the big vote in Asheboro... the alcohol vote. Voters must decide on four separate issues:

  1. The sale of malt beverages
  2. The sale of wine
  3. Whether ABC stores should be allowed
  4. Mixed beverage sales in restaurants


So, what do you think? Will the vote pass? Will Asheboro finally get with the times or should they stay the same, and not allow these changes?

Let us know what you think below!
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bleechers read my blog view my photos
Jul 24, 2008 | 5:43 PM

Asheboro should do what its citizens want. I happen to think that hard liquors will bring pain, poverty and death with them, but that is for the people to weigh and decide.

The problem I always with these votes is that they will keep putting it on the ballet until it passes. Once it passes, it will never appear on a ballot again.

zep20smokechic read my blog view my photos
Jul 25, 2008 | 9:15 AM

asheboro is my hometown and i still work in asheboro. and i tell yea this is bring out the nasty in everybody!! i will be glad when it's over!!!!

daddygirl1953
Jul 25, 2008 | 7:05 PM

I think Asheboro needs changes and sale alcohol is one of them.They talk about the problem we would have here .Well open your eyes.Alcohol is here already.People are going to bootleggers or driving to Randleman and biscoe to get it .Why don't we try to stop the sell of drugs in our city or the gangs that are here .The last I check alcohol was legal and drugs was not .but our town is more worried about stoping alcohol than they are stoping the drugs that isbeing sold to kids at school

shtrogdon read my blog
Jul 25, 2008 | 10:58 PM

I live just outside of Asheboro city limits so I can't vote. If I could though, I would vote FOR alcohol! It would bring in more jobs and businesses of all sorts. It wouldn't hurt us since people already buy it and bring it here. Unless Asheboro is going to make the possession and consumption of alcohol illegal, we might as well sell it and make money off of it!

SmokyBurgess read my blog
Jul 26, 2008 | 9:47 AM

If the "Yes" folks win, I see it as enlarging our local mission field. How better to show the love of Christ than to help the ravages that this drug will inflict.

So come broken families...come beaten spouses...come those will liver disease..come and find freedom in Jesus Christ.

To learn more, visit www.bbnchat.org

Bye and God Bless You

Plinius
Jul 29, 2008 | 7:18 AM

last time i checked we live in america. Our country is theoretically free from religious bias in laws. The trutrh is thet we are far from it. When another persons religious beliefs impede upon my ability to make a choice i think its wrong. When alchohol is not sold on sunday or not at all it is a group of peoples religious beliefs taking a choice away from me and therefore we need to abolish these antiquated unamerican laws

noodles12
Jul 29, 2008 | 8:42 AM

Talk about a bunch of self righteous people. when they say you should quit going to church or you will go to hell if you vote for alcohol. I say see ya there.
VOTE FOR ALCOHOL.

amymoore read my blog view my photos
Jul 29, 2008 | 9:36 AM

I think everyone in asheboro should be allowed to vote for alcohol inside & outside the city limts. I don't think it's fair for us not to vote cause we're not in the city limits. I think everyone should have a right to vote in asheboro. VOTE FOR ALOCHOL!

firewife20
Jul 29, 2008 | 9:54 AM

I hope that when this is all over, and thank goodness it will be over soon, that people take a new stance on other things in Asheboro that are illeagal and that we have NO CONTROL over. Gangs, drugs and the violence that comes along with those things.
Take a drive through a part of town you've been avoiding and see what things are going on. Wake up folks, its not an alcohol problem. And we don't live in Mayberry, as some would like to think we do.
We'll still be able to drink in Asheboro after today, it will just take longer to drive up 220 and bring it back.

shep5190
Jul 29, 2008 | 10:13 AM

The way I see it is that the folks that want more development and see Asheboro turned into a "CITY" and don't care about losing their countryside and country way of life will vote for this, the folks that are fine with the way things are and want to keep some type of Country in their hometown, will not want this. I used to love going to Asheboro, but I avoid it now. If this goes through and even more country is destroyed out that way...I am definitely staying as far away as is possible!

amymoore read my blog view my photos
Jul 29, 2008 | 11:18 AM

ALOCHOL will make money for the town/city.

The_Infamous_J
Jul 29, 2008 | 12:03 PM

You know what is amazing to me is that people are trying to act like voting "FOR" will send you straight to hell or something. I challenge all of you to go to the Courier-Tribune website (Asheboro's local paper) and read some of the letters to the editor being sent in. I've never heard such hate filled, close-minded speech in all my life from the people that are supposedly Christians and members of this "anti" organization. One stated that "you'll go to hell" if you vote for it while another stated that if we do get alcohol all victims of drunk driving accidents could blame the people who vote "FOR". I'm sorry, but did I just miss something there? Where's the compassion and love from the people claiming that it's all in the name of God? I knew there were a bunch of hypocrites around here, but this just like putting a spotlight on them...

And this comment about "drunk driving" increasing and blaming the people who vote "FOR" is just baffling. Having lost one friend to a drunk driver down in Wilmington, I fail to see how that is anyone else's fault but the person who drank and then drove. I could point out that the person that killed him and his father had been arrested and released SEVERAL times prior for drunk driving. I could also point out that our judicial system is failing us by not keeping a person like that behind bars, but I think that would be a little over the top since my first point was enough.

I also find it interesting that the people for a "Safe and Healthy Asheboro" popped up when...alcohol...was brought up. Not ONCE have I heard anyone mentio

The_Infamous_J
Jul 29, 2008 | 12:04 PM

looks like some got cut off...oh well.

JessicaW view my photos
Jul 29, 2008 | 12:41 PM

I will be relieved when the voting is over and a decision has been rendered! I truly feel as though it will pass by a large majority.

Frankly, it is embarrassing to me to have to explain to my out-of-town guests what all the "Vote For" and "Vote Against" hoopla is about. Imagine what the thousands of Zoo Visitors think about the dozens of signs on the road to the Zoo and huge banner on 64 (besides how unattractive it is!).

The truth is- when I attempt to explain the why and how of Asheboro's "dry" status, I really don't know what to say. WHY and HOW are we still a dry county in 2008?

Lastly, I didn't really have a strong opinion on this matter. While it would be nice to buy wine at Wal-Mart in Asheboro instead of elsewhere, I was not invested to the point of truly caring or even to the point of voting. UNTIL, that is, the "Christian" bookstore put up a huge "Vote Against" banner and the owner admitted he knew it was illegal. That is what prompted me to not only vote, but to ensure that all my neighbors and friends plan to vote as well and I use that example of hypocrisy as the catalyst for change in this city!

(The final straw- being damned to hell if I vote yes. People, please!)

The_Infamous_J
Jul 29, 2008 | 12:53 PM

Amen to that Jessica! I had no intentions of even taking a side in the issue until I saw that stupid sign go up on 64. The fella who put it up felt that it was his "Christian duty" to do that.

Then the city said that they had 30 days to get it down before they had to bring it down.

Now, if I went out there and put up a "LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE" or "CATHOLIC PRIEST TOUCH LITTLE BOYS" sign I'd get 30 days to bring that sign down?

Give me a break. I actually go to church just about every Sunday when I'm in town, and this whole issue truly embarrasses me...as a Christian.

ms77nc
Jul 29, 2008 | 1:18 PM

Whether or not you truely believe that Alcohol will have any such impact on Asheboro's economy is still to be determined. Truth is that Alcohol in not the answer to our problems. I'ts a nice cover up by the alliance for the passing of the sales, but it will not bring the long term good paying jobs we are in need of here. How big can Asheboro really get? I personally do not want another Greensboro here. If the people for the sales will be honest for once and come out and say the real reason they would like this in Asheboro is they would like to have a drink with there meals, I would understand. But to pervert the truth with all their claims and benefits is disgustingly wrong. If you want to drink while eating out, then just say so, don't make the truth what it's not.

amymoore read my blog view my photos
Jul 29, 2008 | 2:32 PM

I can't wait to see what happens. I really hope it passes.

mayberryman
Jul 29, 2008 | 3:47 PM

The only way this will pass is if the Baptists are too hung over to stagger to the polls.

NCSaltH2o
Jul 29, 2008 | 4:40 PM

Hypocrites are of every denomination mayberryan, not just the Baptists.

mayberryman
Jul 29, 2008 | 4:50 PM

Ok, you're right--the Pentecostals, too.

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