UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, April 15, 1994
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Finney vetoes alcohol sales bill
By Stephen Martino Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Gov. Joan Finney vetooed a bill Wednesday that would have allowed purchase of alcohol on Sundays and by credit card.
Finney said that she did not have a problem with Sunday sales but that she considered purchase by credit card to be "poor public policy."
The bill will return to the Legislature, where members can attempt to
override her veto. The Legislature will reconvene April 27 for a veto session, a time to address all the bills voted by the governor.
However, there seems to be little chance for an override because the legislation passed the House by the narrowest of margins, 63-62. It would need 83 votes to pass the House in an
override motion.
The bill would have allowed liquor, grocery and convenience stores to sell alcohol from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Sundays.
Advocates of the legislation argued that citizens could purchase alcohol on Sundays with credit cards at restaurants. They said their concern was restaurant patrons leaving the establishments drunk and driving home.
Sunday alcohol sales, said advocate and State Rep. Lisa Benlon, R-Shawnee, would allow people to buy packaged alcohol and take it home, reducing the chances of drunken driving.
The bill also would have allowed liquor sales on Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day. It would have left Thanksgiving and
Christmas as the only days on which alcohol could not be purchased.
John Webb, owner of Webb's Fine Wine and Spirits, 800 W.23rd St., said the issues presented were business considerations, not social questions.
"My competition in Missouri allows these sales," he said. "This bill would have made for a level playing field."
Kansas always has had much more conservative liquor laws than many of its neighboring states, especially Missouri. Webb said. Yet he said that his support of Sunday and credit card sales were not motivated by the thought of making more money. Webb would have had to pay his workers for one more day.
"You will spend more in overhead for making the same amount of money," he said.
Services aren't just for LesBiGays
By Denise Neil
Kansan staff writer
Services provided through LesBiGay Services of Kansas are not designed to help only lesbian, bisexual and gay people.
Eric Moore, Lawrence senior and co-coordinator of LesBiGay Awareness Week activities, said that many of the services also helped straight people deal with their feelings about homosexuality.
One of the services, a speakers bureau, consists of two men and two women from LesBiGayS OK who speak at places such as churches, organized living groups, fraternities and sororites.
Moore, who has worked on a speakers bureau, said that the speakers went through extensive training.
"People who do speakers bureaus have gone through workshops where they are taught how to field different questions," he said. "I've done them for a while now, and I've had people walk up to me and say 'Hey, I saw this speakers bureau you did, and it really made me think.'"
Two other services are designed to help the LesBiGay community. Scott Manning, director of LesBiGayS OK, said that a support group was provided for people who wanted to talk to
someone who would understand their feelings.
"It's for LesBiGay people who are not confident in coming to our more visual events," he said.
Peer counseling also is made available, Manning said. People who need to talk can call Headquarters, Inc., 1419 Massachusetts St., or the University Information Center and be connected with an individual in LesBiGavSOK to whom they can talk.
Manning, who has served as a peer counselor, said that people who were nervous about coming out sometimes felt more comfortable talking to someone who was openly lesbian, bisexual or gay.
"A lot of times, people just coming out don't want to tell anyone," he said. "They can call us and say what they're feeling. I've had parents call me whose children had come out to them. I've also had children call whose parents had come out to them."
While the peer counseling program is well used, Manning said, its use increased significantly immediately whenever LesBiGayS OK distributed filers advertising the service.
But it's not always easy to reach people who need help, Manning said.
"Other people will go tear down our fliers," he said. "Every time we put
Services
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- 864-3506 or
- 811-2975
Headquarters, Inc. - 841-2345
them up, it seems like some people are behind us tearing them down."
LesBiGayS OK also uses the help from KU Info and Headquarters to avoid harassment.
"I think all three of those services are very effective," Manning said. "They all kind of affect different people. Just one program doesn't reach everyone because people have different needs. When I talk to people from national gay and lesbian programs and tell them what we do, they're very impressed."
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