[Booze Laws] The Utah Legislature tinkers with Utah liquor law every year. Even when the laws don't need tinkering. Most often they make a mess of it. They are about to again.The governor has proposed doing away with Utah's arcane system of private clubs. His idea is one of normalizing, not liberalizing. It's not normal to have to join a drinking establishment in order to have a drink, entertain guests, or simply socialize. Utah isn't normal. Tourists know it. Drinkers know it. And non-drinkers know it. It's the whacks on the right who think it's hunky-dory.
Senator after senator makes ill-informed comments about "private clubs" like this from Senator Waddoups: "They help us track drunk drivers." Even the Utah highway patrol knows that's not true. You may know that the Senator's wife was once hit by a drunk driver. At 9 a.m. Clubs don't even open until 10 a.m., so go figure.
Sane Utahns made a big mistake when they began educating Waddoups on this and other wrong headed thinking. Now it's proposed that instead of having Private Clubs, all persons as in ALL PERSONS entering a club must have their ID scanned which will store their barcode information for 30 days. Not even I have had a 30-day hangover from one night on the town, so start there and go backwards. The state doesn't need my information for 30 days. Nor 15, nor 10 nor 5, nor 1. Scanning all patrons is the exact opposite of what a "Private Club" was and ought to be. It's a conflict in terms--what's private about having your ID scanned? That's Anti-Private!!
Let a scanner check ID if they must to eliminate human error on minors who started shaving in 8th grade. But don't scan everyone’s. And don't store data. That's flat out wrong.
Get the governor's bill back on track. Get rid of club memberships. It's the right bill. (John Saltas)
Let a scanner check ID if they must to eliminate human error on minors who started shaving in 8th grade. But don't scan everyone’s. And don't store data. That's flat out wrong.
Get the governor's bill back on track. Get rid of club memberships. It's the right bill. (John Saltas)
What are they going to do with out of state or country visitors who dont have bar codes on their ID? What about those who use a passport?
ReplyDeleteI'm a 55 year old man and stopped going to The SL Jazz Festival when I was required to wear a wrist band to get a beer. Fuck this place and all the in-breed mormon slime.
Gotta comment on Greg Curtis, the X Speaker of the House. Played the mo card until voted out now is pimping for the tobacco industry. Why doesn't this surpirse me?
To Anonymous Above. They are slime balls all around. Good point on Curtis.
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