The final day of the 2013 regular session of the Alabama Legislature Monday was also last call for Wetumpka’s attempt to schedule a vote on whether to loosen the city’s restriction on alcohol sales.
Neither of the two local bills submitted by the city of Wetumpka — to permit a referendum on draft beer and Sunday on-premises alcohol sales — was able to navigate the last-minute logjam, not to mention the dueling personalities involved.
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