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lation, he said, because the counties’ respective boards of supervisors did not notify him in time that they wanted him to get them that authority. For next session, he said, he will be asking counties to pass along any legislation they want him to put before the House by Nov. 1.
As he said he would, he voted in favor of allowing localities the option of electing their school boards. “I think it’s the best process where the people have to be responsible to somebody. The same way with me, if I don’t do a good job they can vote me out, and rightly so.”
A measure that Del. Wood sponsored would have allowed county magistrates the power to revoke drivers’ licenses for 90 days upon arrest for driving under the influence. A watered-down version of that bill, proposed by Attorney General Mary Sue Terry, would have pulled driving rights for seven days, but it failed as well in the lawyer-dominated legislature.
“If they blow a .10, so far as I’m concerned, they’re guilty of DUI,” said Del. Wood, responding to questions about due process the measure raised.
A bill that would have added local taxes to cigarette sales in some jurisdictions was opposed by Del. Wood, but he missed the vote by mistake and was not in the chamber when it came up.
He supported a bill lowering the percentage of food to liquor a restaurant has to sell from 45 percent to 35
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