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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Tuesday by way of an administrative order extended the ability for the City’s restaurants to continue selling alcohol for off-premise consumption through June 30.
As with the original order, which was set to expire May 20, all sold alcohol must be unopened.
Here’s the language from the update:
Administrative Order 2020-14 directs the Atlanta Police Department (APD) to refrain from taking any action to enforce any prohibitions against the sale of unopened wine and/or malt beverages by the package for off-premises consumption by restaurants and other eating and drinking establishments licensed for the sale of those beverages through June 30, 2020.
The updated order which is one of three is meant to “assist Atlanta residents and businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Bottoms’ extension of this order reinforces the Mayor’s messaging that Atlantans should continue staying at home even while Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has lifted his “shelter-in-place” mandate and has allowed restaurants to reopen dining rooms as of April 27.
“My concern in our state in and in our city is that we’ve gone back to normal, and there’s nothing normal about where we are with COVID-19,” Mayor Bottoms last week told CNN.
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I thought KLB said Phase One was voluntary.
This guy is just a testosterne-poisioned control freak.
He didn’t sue any other cities in GA that had similar guidelines.
And from my understanding he didn’t sue the COA, he sued KLB, and the City Council.
What a d!ck…
It seems he might have a problem with (Black) women in charge…
Oh hush that’s bogus and assumptive to say the least. This has nothing to do with being a woman of color nor if he has a problem with the later. KLB ( as you all call her) was going to literally break the small business! Which would have put thousands out of work creating a ripple affect from there. So hush! You can’t go backwards to phase 1 and force mask wearing in public ( which doesn’t stop or curve a “virus”). There is something else going on here and the Governor is standing up against it for ALL small business owners of ALL colors again stop trying to play the race card this would have messed everyone up that owns a small business .
Oh please, you told me to hush the last time I mentioned this.
Read the article, the reopening rollback was voluntary. KLB was not shutting small businesses down.
She was trying to make masks mandatory in public spaces (grocery stores etc). What’s the big deal with that?
Kemp didn’t sue the Mayors of Athens and Savannah, which made similar requirements.
Race aside, Kemp is the shake boy for Pence/Trump. And we know how those two think about women. One likes to grab them by the puzzy, and the other calls his wife Mother.
Kemp’s lawsuit was a power play– it’s not about the concern for anybody’s health or small business.
Granted, Kemp wants to keep the Georgia financial engine running, but I think the Mayor and the rest of us want to do that as well– safely.
Kemp’s a big southern macho man wannabe who doesn’t like a woman that appears to override his authority (remember his campaign ads with his guns and pick-em up truck?).
KLB has the balls Kemp wishes he had.
Dingus-ery