Letter: Liquor referendum will do town no good

There’s a rumor and letter floating around Troutman promising us that if we rush out and vote for the liquored-up-by-the-drink referendum, we’ll all suddenly have a rosy future and money coming out of our kazoonkas.

The so-called “Troutman Partners for Progress” even uses the word “progress” a total of six times.How do you measure progress? I must admit they paint a very pretty picture. They promise it would allow “taxes to stay low.” Remember, we were promised that if we passed school bonds, we wouldn’t have our taxes raised.

Then we were promised if we passed the gambling — I mean the education lottery — the students would benefit.

Yeah, right.

That letter was filled with concerns for profits for Troutman. All we have to do is pass a referendum to allow someone to get plastered then get out on the roads around Troutman. Yeah, that’s what we need.That “extra money” will do a lot of good when someone —maybe you — has to lower a loved one’s casket into a grave, because they were taken out by a drunken driver.
I urge every voter in Troutman to vote May 6 for keeping the roads safe and the crime rate low in Troutman. Now that’s real progress.

Don Riddle
Troutman