The irony of some people calling themselves conservative is laughable to a truly conservative person like myself. In my decades as a bartender in Alaska I have often been the most conservative one in the room, you can imagine. But my conservativism made it easier for me to apply the rules of liquor service in a beverage dispensary setting. I've often wondered why it was that, throughout my career, I was told, after I had discontinued service to an individual, that I was the only bartender who had ever cut them off. I had heard it from so many guests, sometimes quite elderly, that I was left with one nagging question. Am I the only one that ever refuses to sell someone a drink?
That question was practically answered for me a few years ago, by the offspring of a guest of mine from the past. This adult child explained that their parent had finally ended up sober, in prison for vehicular manslaughter. At that point, they began to identify me to their family as the only friend they ever had, for I was the only one in their life that had ever refused to sell them a drink.
Now, I am just one conservative person with my own conservative thoughts, but it would seem to me that if there had been one good conservative lawyer in the business of alcohol representation, I might not have had this experience. Bartenders all over this state would have been refusing service to many guests. I imagine, also, that the people of my great state would not be nearly as oppressed, as so many are, by their life experiences with this legal drug.
The biggest irony is that the lawyer who had had the most input, dare I say the "go to" lawyer in our alcohol industry, now claims to be a conservative running for mayor of Anchorage, complete with the endorsements of both current and past mayors support. I haven't checked the records, but I'm pretty certain some of those endorsers have a stake in a liquor license here and there.
