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MADD Criticizes Obama for Beer Summit

By Lawrence Taylor

It’s interesting that Mothers Against Drunk Driving has taken no position against texting or talking on a cell phone while driving — practices which have repeatedly been proven more dangerous than drunk driving.  See, for example, Inebriated or Texting: Which is More Dangerous?.  If anyone still questions MADD’s underlying agenda…. MADD, Industry Clash Over Beer Summit Politico.com.  Aug 3 –President Barack Obama’s beer summit may have made peace among its participants, but the event seems to have inflamed a long-simmering fight between Mothers Against Drunk Driviing and the alcoholic beverage industry. "MADD is no longer an organization that opposes drunk driving, but an anti-alcohol group that has been hijacked by the modern day temperance movement,' Sarah Longwell of the American Beverage Institute said in a statement emailed to reporters...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on August 03, 2009 (boomark / email).