Tennessee Senate updates

Crap! I looks like I won't be able to carry a flask in my car. I'm not sure how the new law reads, but I think they are doing away with the "open container loophole" in Tennessee. Senator Beverly Marrero was violently against this, which I was proud of. It will take a LONG time to get Tennesseans to quit drinking in their cars! Really, it will just add to the taxing of the poor for being poor because, like Marrero said, the rich can still get as drunk as they want in their limos. I am against drinking in the car, but I just don't see this law doing anything positive. Also, they added an additional $250 to the already high ($2,000) fine for a DUI. Proposed by Sen. Raymond Finney, this is yet another law that will not do anything but further hinder the poor. Who gets charged far more often upon conviction of a DUI? The poor. Who could go to jail if they cannot fork up an extra $2,250 in a year's time? The poor. I want to see some good laws proposed. Oh yeah, I'm also not sure about the terms of this law, but the republicans were trying so hard to pass this law against abortion even though the TN Constitution might be amended soon in a way that would render this law useless. These guys ALWAYS say "If it could save one life... just one life... why would you not pass it?!?" Moral highchairs! Upidste!