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Jun 17, 2013 By Robert Wilder Comments 0
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11.10.2011
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Take me out to Fort Marcy
Beer and Baseball are coming to Santa Fe
By R Harrison Dilday
The City Council voted last night in favor of the amendment to allow beer sales at
Fort Marcy ballpark.
During the public hearing, overwhelming support of bringing baseball to Santa Fe was heard, but opinions were split on the issue of beer and the use of Fort Marcy.
When neighborhood residents expressed their desire to have the Pecos League play elsewhere, “class warfare,” could be heard whispered throughout the crowd and sometimes even shouted out.
Students from local public School Capital High School spoke against the amendment, describing the effects of alcohol abuse in their communities. One student even went as far as to accuse Mayor Cross of flip flopping, citing Cross’s stance against substance abuse in last year’s Take Back The Neighborhood March.
Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce President Simon Brackley was one among many to voice support for the amendment last night.
After hours of talk of and debate the vote finally came down to a tie in the council that was broken by Mayor Cross.
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The reason "class warfare" was mumbled or called out IMHO is that they City holds a liqour license to sell beer and wine at the Marty Sanchez Golf Course. There they are not imposing a 3 beer/wine limit on their customers. They aren't banished to some sort of "beer tent or garden" off to the side. They actually have a pretty young lady in a golf cart stocked with ice cold beer, who will drive throughout the golf course to deliver beer to the golfers out while they are playing.
One can drive a golf cart, with their kid, drink brews, and play 18 holes. I wonder how how beers one can pound over 18 holes?
It's drips of hypocrisy. There is a precieption that players (obviously NOT MLB) /fans of golf and baseball come from very different economic backgrounds.