Interesting little bit of Maryland history, here:
George P. McCeney, Laurel’s mayor at the beginning of Prohibition in 1920, felt “no compulsion to enforce” the law, according to his grandson of the same name. On the first day that Prohibition went into effect, state police pulled over a truck and discovered it was full of Canadian whiskey and champagne. Since the truck was pulled over in Laurel, the mayor was called to advise on what to do. As the younger McCeney remembers the story, his grandfather told the police to park the truck in his backyard until they figured it out. “He finished the last bottle when the law was repealed” 13 years later, said McCeney.
It’s important to pace yourself.
One hopes he unloaded the truck and put the cargo in more temperature controlled storage.
It would have been practically criminal not to.
Further testing is required. This is, after all, for science!
After checking a little, the office of Mayor of Laurel, Maryland was a “non-partisan” postion, which meant the candidate did not have to proclaim a party allegiance.
I would not be surprised to learn that Mr. McCeney was in fact a Democrat. ^_^
His party affiliation was apparently “Yes, let’s please…” 😀
He was opportunistic and entitled.
Republican fits just as well as Democrat.
Wow. Somehow I never knew that Prohibition lasted 13 years. Math.