Remember former Seattle city attorney Tom Carr, who was on an anti-booze, anti-bar crusade?

I warned Boulder, Colorado about him. And now the Boulder Weekly has a follow up article on a strange phenomenon coinciding with Carr’s arrival: “The city of Boulder has seen a dramatic spike in the number of liquor-license violations doled out in recent months.” In fact, they’ve nearly doubled.

For his part, Carr tells the Boulder Weekly that it’s probably not more enforcement, it’s that “people are violating more.”

Uh huh.

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  5. Wait… …the effect of hiring Tom Carr as your city attorney is that the number of people committing violations increases? That means all the people of Boulder have to do to cut down crime is fire Tom Carr.

  8. @2, Mr. Sit-Lie recently finished heading up the state utilities commission. You reminded me of this blast from the past:

    Al Franken backs Mark Sidran
    By The Associated Press
    Comedian and political commentator Al Franken has weighed in on Washington state’s Democratic primary for attorney general, saying candidate Mark Sidran has the ability to win in November “or whenever the Department of Homeland Security allows us to vote.”
    Franken issued the endorsement letter after being approached by the Sidran campaign, Sidran spokesman Keenan Block said.

    “I have known Mark since I was accidentally admitted to Harvard in the late 1960s,” Franken wrote. “Mark, who got in on merit and merit alone, was a classmate of mine, and has made something of himself.”

    The two did know of each other at Harvard but weren’t close friends, Block said. The letter lauded Sidran for setting up domestic-violence and environmental-law divisions in the Seattle City Attorney’s Office, which Sidran formerly headed.

    “This is a serious race, and Sidran’s making a mockery and a joke out of it,” said Karen Besserman, spokeswoman for former Insurance Commissioner Deborah Senn, Sidran’s primary opponent.

    http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.c…

  9. Maybe Tom Carr has a drinking problem and that’s why there are more violations when he’s in town. Maybe treatment for him would reduce the criminal activity in Boulder?

  11. Popup Pete opposed I-1100. While Popup Pete correctly overlooks offences for possessing small quantities of marijuana, he won’t overlook Giggles.

    Popup Pete isn’t as liberal as he seems.

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