Sherwood Boehlert Quotes
Craft brewers are committed to promoting the safe and moderate consumption of their beverage, and work closely with their communities to prevent underage drinking and alcohol abuse.
Boehlert, Sherwood. "Commending American Craft Brewers." Congressional Record, Government Printing Office, 6 June 2006.
Father of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher. Father of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher
This is a very important quote for it shows the young, pragmatic, pluralistic, tolerant politician who ran for the Mayor of Istanbul. As he acquitted power he became an insular, ego maniac, intolerant, authoritarian, paranoid, and often irrational. But in his earlier years he was an outstanding leader and politician. In this quotation he instructed his campaign followers to not berate or physically assault those Muslims who drank alcohol in reseraunnts, but instead to salute them and bring them into the movement by being tolerant of all the various degrees of orthodoxy to islam. The the fundamentalist drinking alcohol is a serious sin, but doing so in a public place is a danger to the community norms and morality. He used to advocate a big tent.
Explaining why he wants alcohol-ad warnings in all alcohol ads:
This method of substance abuse prevention represents what scientists now call “environmental prevention” where instead of dealing with individual alcoholics the environment is altered to reduce the likelihood of developing fewer alcohol-related problems. Almost every state uses Locke’s principle and regulates the number of liquor outlets in any most areas. Those communities which have a very high density of bars and liquor stores tend to have more alcohol-related violence. The riots of the Watts area of Los Angeles in the late 20th century took place in one of the highest densities of liguor stores in the country.
There was no Federal regulation of food and drink then. Fast buck whisky purveyors would include all kinds of ingredients and processes, safe and sanitary or not. Many Americans died or became very sick from eating tainted food then. Even bad whisky had killed many. TR chose whisky as his example, because Congress was filled with heavy drinkers and whisky was then the favorite Congressional drink. Roosevelt, with these tactics got the first federal food regulatory laws passed over enourmous opposition, not unlike the fight over Obamacare which would take place a century later.
Sherwood Louis "Sherry" Boehlert is a retired American politician from New York. He represented a large swath of central New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 until 2007. Boehlert, a Republican, was considered to be a member of the party's moderate wing. He served as Chairman of the Science Committee from 2001 to 2006.
