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(JDcrowe@al.com)

Gov. Kay Ivey is warming up to her Lower Alabama/Gulf Coast voter family by signing the crawfish bill, which allows traditional on-the-street crawfish boils as long as Mobile bars and restaurants comply with a few new safety regulations.

Crawfish boils are a big part of the culture down here. If you can't boil bugs on the street and feed 'em for free to thirsty beer drinkers in Lower Alabama, what's the point of acting like life is good?

Kudos to Rep. Margie Wilcox - the "Crawfish Queen" - and Sen. Vivian Figures for working to make this common sense bill happen.

Good call for signing it, Gov. Ivey.