Thursday, May 01, 2008

Hope

The word today from our lobbyist is that he is very confident he will be able to get the Gourmet Beer Bill on the Senate's special order calendar sometime next week. Nothing is guaranteed in Alabama politics, of course. Although the Senate did a remarkable job passing a tremendous amount of legislation today and yesterday, tensions are still running high because of the long filibuster over gambling and how it was ended (and where that leaves the specific bills each Senator wants to see passed).

But this is the best news we've had since we passed the House. The long nightmare of the bingo filibuster is over, the Senate is doing real business, and we are ideally positioned to come up for a vote before the clock runs out this session.

Stuart will be sending out a newsletter next week encouraging everyone to call their Senator. We want to light the phones up shortly before the bill comes to the floor for maximum effectiveness.

Be prepared.

posted by Danner at 7:03 PM permanent link

8 Comments:

Anonymous said...: thats certainly good to hear!; May 01, 2008 7:32 PM
Anonymous said...: i have a feeling that the Senator's phones will be blowing up next week. I know I'll be doing my part!; May 02, 2008 9:22 AM
Unknown said...: I'm sure as soon as someone says "Tax revenue lost to Georgia" something will happen. :P; May 02, 2008 12:07 PM
Anonymous said...: I fell for you all in alabama, my prayers are with all of you and hopefully the ignorance of the senate and self pride does not get in the way.

Good luck on this!; May 02, 2008 1:48 PM
Anonymous said...: oops meant feel instead of fell; May 02, 2008 1:48 PM
Anonymous said...: I thought your comment made perfect sense! I fell for them a long time ago.

They had me at "Hops".

I really enjoyed hanging out with the FTH folks at DLD last weekend, and will be thinking about you, wishing you the best!; May 02, 2008 10:50 PM
Anonymous said...: I stumbled across this while trying to find the special order calendar schedule:

http://www.politicalparlor.net/wp/2008/03/03/proposed-special-order-calendar-for-tuesday/

looks promising; May 03, 2008 12:50 PM
Anonymous said...: That Political Parlor post is from March, and was the House special order calendar from the day we passed the House. Now we're in the Senate. The proposed SO calendar will not be published anywhere on the internet until after it is adopted, and may not be finalized until shortly before .; May 03, 2008 5:27 PM