Ed-SPLOST, Sunday Sales Pass, Locals React to Changes

By 8:30 Tuesday night, polls had closed and the results had already be unofficially announced that the and the Sunday alcohol sales referendum passed in both and Cherokee County.

The sales tax passed with a slim majority—54 percent yes, 45 percent no.

Leslie Cushman, one of the board members for the National PTA, sent an email to the supporters congratulating their efforts.

“It is a true indicator to prospective businesses that we are serious about education,” Cushman wrote in an email. “I hope that every principal, teacher and citizen remember who the players were in trying to defeat this initiative.”

Georgette Thaler with the Cherokee County Democrats said this issue went beyond partisanship.

“This was a true non-partisan effort in which both Dems and Republicans, educators, bankers and other businessmen worked together for a common goal, and what is possible when we collaborate for the betterment of future generations of children in Cherokee County,” Thaler wrote in an email. “I believe it will also attract other families who wish to live in a family friendly county which while part of Metro Atlanta, affords young families the best that life has to offer, starting with providing a solid, forward thinking educational foundation through our public school system."

Cherokee County Sunday alcohol referendum had a larger divide—68 percent voted yes while 32 percent voted no.

The Holly Springs Sunday alcohol referendum passed with 72 percent of voters in favor.

People on both sides of this issue posted on the Holly Springs Patch Facebook page saying it “is time to end the dark ages of Sunday prohibition” and that we should ban alcohol permanently as it is the “devil’s poison.”

Also in Holly Springs, for the Holly Springs City Council in a majority over Kevin Bailey and Andrew Whitaker.