The Town of Jonesboro’s controversial mayor Leslie Thompson tonight proclaimed that the town of Jonesboro was deemed “wet,” since there could be found no history of a local option election that voted otherwise.
The town’s attorney Doug Stokes backed Thompson’s opinion.
What this means is that application to the Louisiana Office of Alcohol & Tobacco Control for the following classes can be made:
Class AG – Bars, 18 Years and Older, On Premise Consumption Only
Class AR – Restaurant
Class B – Package House, Off Premise Consumption Only, Factory Sealed Containers Only
Class C – Package Liquor Store, Off Premise Consumption Only
Those applications will be approved until an election is held that directs otherwise, the mayor said.
We will have additional reporting tomorrow.
07/10/2012 at 9:57 pm |
This is great news.
I would like to see a drive thru liquor store with frozen drink machines. Open seven days a week….very good!!!
What a good idea our Mayor has to increase the revenue.
Guess the liquor store gonna need some private security since the cops are gone….wait….the liquor store can hire the laid off police.
Our Mayor…he is so smart….taking care of business…told you all
it is still good in Jonesboro!!!
07/11/2012 at 8:55 am |
The mayor has proclaimed that Jonesboro is wet. Who is going to proclaim that the mayor is f***ing stupid?
07/11/2012 at 9:35 am |
99% of us that blog on this site.
07/11/2012 at 10:19 am |
Messy,
Are you really as stupid as you sound or are you really a white person attempting to stir things up with your REALLY, REALLY, stupid comments? Just to show us that you have a degree of intelligence, name one, JUST ONE, job or business that the CTIC has brought to Jonesboro. And please explain why the white people are leaving Jonesboro for places outside ot the town. Do all of that for me and then you can go back to your crack.
07/11/2012 at 1:14 pm |
To Donald and all, It’s the Crack that does it to “Messy” and the other voters that put that piece of SH** in the office which HE does not belong!!!
As for the “WET” thing, tax income is tax income, NO SALE = no income!!!! Point Clear!!!!!!!!
Get of your soapbox R. Stringer and do something that realy matters! GOT IT!!!!
07/10/2012 at 10:09 pm |
look out………..some things can only go on for so long……there is always a bottom and me thinks tis near the bottom now.
07/10/2012 at 10:18 pm |
Why was this even being discussed? It wasn’t listed on the agenda, or did he change it at the last minute too!
07/11/2012 at 10:21 am |
Perhaps he got that idea while whooping it up at the lake. What’s church social without a little pick me up booze?
07/10/2012 at 10:24 pm |
Oh Yeah!! Can y’all say “Ebonys lounge, Ebonys lounge”. Gonna turn the old Bo-mart into a top class club and bring in some real playas. “Ehr-ma-gerd” Is this mayor really as stupid and arrogant as he seems? This has got to be one for the books.
07/10/2012 at 11:04 pm |
I know how Jonesboro is going to be saved, I have seen de light! Juke joints and flop houses on main street. Plus all that money spent on “his airport,” to fly the dope in and out! Hall le luyer!
07/11/2012 at 10:23 am |
You forgot to mention whorehouses. I think that’s what the CTIC will declare at the next town meeting. I can’t find anything that says we can’t have whorehouses.
07/10/2012 at 11:21 pm |
Who was the woman the chief was escorting from the parking lot? What did she do?
07/11/2012 at 11:07 am |
Wouldn’t we all like to know? So, Walter, who was it?
07/11/2012 at 12:13 am |
Sounds like it’s time to go back to the library and look for newspapers documenting ordinances like they had to do with the Library Board last year…
07/11/2012 at 12:37 am |
Looks like there might have been a successful local option election prohibiting in at least a portion of Jonesboro and Hodge back in 1976 that was ratified by a court case…
http://www.leagle.com/xmlResult.aspx?xmldoc=1977658343So2d315_1571.xml&docbase=CSLWAR1-1950-1985
07/11/2012 at 7:00 am |
Everyone just needs to sit back and let them pass out the liquor licenses. I have to question an attorney that would give the thumbs up to this and you obviously can with the touch of a few computer keys find the answers. I think it’s now time to officially address the actions of an attorney that appears to condone any and all actions that a particular person brings to his attention.
07/11/2012 at 7:08 am |
Maybe “Coach” Stokes and the Mayor can open a store together….
Yes, it is time for coach get off the taxpayers gravy train!
07/11/2012 at 11:08 am |
Maybe Stokes can be disbarred
07/11/2012 at 12:39 am |
http://www.leagle.com/xmlResult.aspx?xmldoc=19771338345So2d993_11064.xml&docbase=CSLWAR1-1950-1985
07/11/2012 at 8:43 am |
I don’t support the mayor, but y’all are being a little ridiculous right now. There’s absolutely no reason people shouldn’t be able to sell liquor in the town. We aren’t living in prohibition. Suddenly we’re all against it because the mayor wants to do it? Give me a break. Pick your battles, folks. This one isn’t it. It comes across as petty.
07/11/2012 at 12:52 pm |
Is it really about the liquor or the stupid way the Mayor and Stokie are running ramshot????
07/11/2012 at 12:57 pm |
I just think it’s unfortunate we can’t have civil discourse anymore. On any given issue you have to pick the mayor or not the mayor. That’s not the way things should work. I just believe we could make money and give people the liberty to make their own decisions about what to put in their bodies. I’ve advocated for liquor sales in Jonesboro (and everywhere mind you) well before the mayor weighed in, and I’m not about to change my mind simply because the mayor and I happen to agree on this one thing.
07/14/2012 at 11:23 am |
who cares?
07/11/2012 at 9:14 am |
I am not against selling alcohol in the city limits either, but we seem to forget there is no longer a police dept. So picture this. A new business opens up,lets just say a bar. The people that goes to said bar gets drunk then drives home drunk. Oh lets not forget the fights that occur in these kinds of places. Do you feel safe now?
07/11/2012 at 9:58 am |
There’s no question the mayor’s decision to abolish the police department has created a safety hazard for the town. That safety problem would exist with or without the sale of liquor in the town. At least now responsible, law-abiding people can have a drink if they so choose. But yes, everyone would certainly feel much safer (and would be safer) if the mayor hadn’t abolished the police department. Clearly a bad move there.
07/11/2012 at 10:12 am |
This is the part i can’t make sense of. On one hand thr mayor sits and expresses so sympathetically that ” it is nothing personal with the dissolution of the police department.” But then one the other hand he says he is fine with paying the same amount, if not more, to the S.O. for protecting the city. I can’t see the financial reasoning in that. That is what makes it look obvious that YES it is personal, because it makes no sense what so ever!!
07/11/2012 at 10:20 am |
EXACTLY!!!
07/11/2012 at 11:01 am |
Maybe he just wants to drink all his problems away ! He might just put in a wet bar with dancers in the town hall !
07/11/2012 at 11:11 am |
Me thinks the deacons will still slink off to Ruston and Monroe and Shreveport for their libations.
07/11/2012 at 12:00 pm |
Do not forget Winnfield….the A-1 Mayor Mobile can find it’s way to Winnfield quite easily ….along with his councilman that was arrested in Winnfield last year
07/11/2012 at 3:05 pm |
“Mayor of Jonesboro all wet.” Renee Stringer proclaims
07/11/2012 at 9:51 pm |
If you don’t know Doug Stokes personally, then keep your opinion to yourself, please. He is a fine, upstanding, Christian man!
07/11/2012 at 11:53 pm |
But Mayor Thompson likes his 40 oz and a nickle bag. It’s all good.
07/12/2012 at 4:56 pm |
Maybe his time has come to retire…..
07/14/2012 at 9:28 pm |
i honestly could care less bout wet or dry. it’s not like you can’t buy alcohol here. what bothers me is the fact that this is what he considers a pertinent issue. aren’t there other things in this parish that need to be dealt with other than liquor?