Posted on 09/20/2021 1:15:09 PM PDT by CedarDave
Some of the reservations in CA are so bad, when cops serve warrants in some of those venues, they go in 3 units full of cops.
Another part of the law, applicable to the entire state, makes the convenience store clerk responsible if a drunk driver does just that - pays for gas at the pump and then drives away. The clerk never sees him but is somehow made responsible for the sale.
If you need a gas receipt, one store, Allsups, never has the printer at the pump working so you have to go inside to get a receipt. I guess at that point the clerk could observe the condition of the driver, but there would be no way to keep him from driving off as he paid for the gas already.
Seems that George Munoz doesn’t businesses aren’t in business to provide essential services. They’re in business to make money.
The amendment specifically targeted McKinley County gas stations. McKinley County is in the west/northwest part of the state, one county south of the Four-Corners region which is mostly covered by San Juan County. I-40 runs through McKinley County on the way to/from AZ. Biggest city is Gallup, NM. Lots of natives come in to Gallup to buy liquor.
Governments spend all their time making counter-productive laws that hurt people.
And, as usual a government hack that knows none of that. Plus, think of the overhead in buying and selling a bottle of bourbon, compared to buying and selling thousands of gallons of gas and diesel. No brainer.
For many of these stores, all their money is made in the store, not at the pump given the margins, taxes, etc. Get rid of the gas pumps, one less thing to worry about.
Apparently, QT is going to try and fade away from pumping gas as well. They make so much in the stores with the food and drink that the gas isn’t worth it.
Anyone who thinks that banning liquor sales will reduce drunkenness has his/her head firmly planted. It has never worked and will never work.
Want to reduce drunken driving? Have more outlets, not less.
Stop talking sense.
I would have put up a wall and created a new business to sell gasoline out of the other part of the same building.
Sometimes you need public bathrooms and gasoline to get cars to pull off the road and spend a little time in the store to pay $2.50 for a dime's worth of coca-cola.
Plenty of drunks can appear dead sober. I’ve known more than a few. Making the clerk at the counter responsible is an evil act. Legislators are scum.
Yep, more likely than a casual drinker for sure.
I thought the law specifically stated the clerk had to have had interaction with said drunk in order to be charged. If they pull up, pay at the pump, pump the gas and leave, no way could you charge the clerk.
That’s awful.
Why doesn’t the criminality lie with the drunk?
Why doesn’t the Navajo NATION tell the state to go eff itself?
I agree. The QT by me is always packed. It seems that most of it is folks at the pump going in to buy something, so I’m thinking they’d be losing at least half their business.
But, I’m not the CEO or on the board, so what the hell do I know?
I remember in the late 60’s, early 70’s buying 6 packs of beer in bars in Rio Arriba County. In and out real quick.
Leave it to a DemonRat politician to have no clue why people engage in business.
“Life is hard. Damn hard.”
And it is harder if you are stupid. Unfortunately, many tribes approve of socialism and government dependency. Now add that the Navajo Nation is located on hard-core desert, and...
Pity. I like the Navajos I’ve known.
State Sen. George Muñoz, D-Gallup, who lobbied for the amendment, said the gas stations’ choice to close “wasn’t unexpected.” But he said it represents a choice owners made to put profits above an essential service
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Obviously the owners are in direct contravention of Directive 10-289, Point 1 and the purpose of the Unification Board.
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