Attorney General Nominee A 'Scrapper'

Giving ANCs the power to run the show in wards 2 and 6 could give ANC 1D the opportunity to reverse a moratorium that has been in effect in Mount Pleasant for eight years. Graham introduced legislation Tuesday that would extend the moratorium, which expires in October. In an interview, Graham said the local neighborhood association, unlike the ANC, favors the moratorium.

At Tuesday's meeting, he said there has been less public urination and a drop in arrests for disorderly conduct because of the moratorium.

But the ANC wants the city to come up with a better approach to public drunkenness, said Jack McKay, who is in his sixth year as a commissioner.

"Cutting off single sales is not going to change their behavior," he said of the people who drink beer on the street. "They are not going to become upstanding citizens because you cut off single sales."

"It's a feel-good solution that simply moves the problem to somebody else's neighborhood," said McKay, who has lived in Mount Pleasant for 34 years.

Mount Pleasant will have to see whether the extension stands, and if the moratoriums in wards 2 and 6 are passed as written. Gray mediated for Graham, Evans and Wells on Monday. And the next day, when Evans and Graham were bickering at the meeting, Gray put a stop to it.

Graham said he plans a hearing on the Evans and Wells bills. But Evans said he reserves the right to propose his measure as an emergency July 15.