In reading Sara’s report on raw milk in today’s Carolina Journal, I was reminded of the debate in the 2007 Senate on Senate Bill 948, sponsored by then state Senators, US Sen. Kay Hagan and State Treasurer Janet Cowell and current state Senator Joe Sam Queen. The bill passed the Senate 34 – 16  before it was sent over to the House to die in the Agriculture Committee.  Here’s the vote count:

Ayes: Apodaca; Basnight; Berger, D.; Berger, P.; Bingham, Blake, Boseman, Brock, Brown, Brunstetter, Clodfelter, Dalton, Dorsett, East, Foriest, Garrou, Goodall, Hagan, Hoyle, Hunt, Jacumin, Jenkins, Kinnaird, Nesbitt, Pittenger, Preston, Queen, Rand, Shaw, Smith, Snow, Stevens, Swindell, Tillman 

Noes: Albertson, Allran, Atwater, Cowell, Danelly, Forrester, Goss, Graham, Hartsell, Jones, Kerr, Malone, McKissick, Purcell, Soles, Weinstein





The next year, as Sara reports, Rep Pricey Harrison
introduced Session Law 2008-88 that reversed a rule mandating that raw milk be dyed
grey.   Here?s the  109-4 vote in the House.  The vote was unanimous in the Senate.   

Ayes: Democrats:
Representative(s): Adams; Alexander, K.; Alexander, M.; Allen; Bell; Blue;
Bordsen; Braxton; Brisson; Bryant; Carney; Church; Coates; Cole; Coleman;
Cotham; Crawford; Dickson; Earle; England; Faison; Farmer-Butterfield; Fisher;
Gibson; Glazier; Goforth; Goodwin; Haire; Hall; Harrell, J.; Harrell, T.;
Harrison; Hill; Holliman; Hughes; Insko; Jeffus; Jones; Love; Lucas; Luebke;
Martin; McAllister; McLawhorn; Michaux; Mobley; Owens; Pierce; Rapp; Ross;
Saunders; Spear; Tarleton; Tolson; Tucker; Underhill; Wainwright; Warren, E.;
Warren, R.; Weiss; Wilkins; Williams; Womble; Wray; Yongue

Republicans: Representative(s): Allred; Avila; Blackwood;
Blust; Brown; Brubaker; Clary; Cleveland; Current; Daughtridge; Dollar; Frye;
Furr; Gillespie; Grady; Gulley; Hilton; Holloway; Howard; Hurley; Justice;
Justus; Killian; Langdon; Lewis; McComas; McElraft; McGee; Moore; Neumann;
Pate; Ray; Samuelson; Setzer; Stam; Starnes; Steen; Stiller; Thomas; Tillis;
Walend; Walker; West; Wiley

Noes:   
Democrats: Sutton   Republicans: Folwell; Holmes; Kiser   

Not Voting:   
Representative(s): Hackney (SPEAKER)   

Exc. Absence:   Democrats:
Parmon   
Republicans: Barnhart; Boylan; Daughtry; Dockham; Johnson