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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!!!!

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!

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

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!

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!

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

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!)

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.

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

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