Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe ATLANTA, May 6 (UPI) -- Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue has vetoed a bill that would have allowed restaurant diners to take home open bottles of wine. Perdue, a teetotaler, said the legislation might have led to a cutoff of federal highway aid because it would have put Georgia law at odds with the federal open container law, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Advertisement Backers of the bill, who included Republican legislative leaders, argued that the change would actually have made for safer roads because diners would not have felt compelled to chug down wine they had paid for. The governor also vetoed a bill that would have granted wineries floating liquor licenses, allowing them to sell their products at festivals.
