For the first time a liquor privatization bill has passed the Senate. It took 82 years but there is light at the end of the tunnel for Pennsylvania consumers. While there is no guarantee a deal can be made with Governor Wolf the next election rotation looks good to increase the Republican majority enough to over ride his veto. Perhaps by then he will be able to read the writing on the wall and do what most residents want. Close the state store system.
Please don't forget to write your Legislators to thank them or to point out the folly of trying to hold on to the past.
END IT! DON'T MEND IT!
Unlike what all the "modernization" mumbo jumbo would lead one to believe, there absolutely are possibilities for a compromise between privatization and saving PLCB jobs as far as I'm concerned. All PA needs is to do like NJ and require supermarket chains to buy liquor licenses, just as bars/restaurants do, and give unionized chains first preference in who gets what. The state would have to be sneaky about this though and somehow hide the fact that union chains are given first choice, in order for non-union chains to not get upset and sue. Most likely, supermarket chains though will be pressured into opening liquor stores completely detached from the supermarkets themselves, to ensure that selection isn't decreased from what the state stores have, and to ensure that ex-state store workers stay employed.
ReplyDeleteThe general assembly voted to force Wolf to veto. The should not be confused with a liquor bill. If Wolf signs it a few Republican Senators would crap themselves.
ReplyDeleteAnd ALL the Democrats would too.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you misunderstood. I meant Senators that made a calculated vote for the bill only to force a veto. Even Scott Wagner knows this is BS. Same Mcillheny frankenbill your railed against last year. I have to say at least the opinions on this blog are flexible!
ReplyDeleteWolf hasn't vetoed the privatization bill yet. It only took him 3 hours to veto the entire budget but so far no word on the privatization bill. A little horse trading going on perhaps?
ReplyDeleteThat well could be. There is a meeting between the Guv and Republican leaders today. House Majority Leader Dave "I won't let liquor hold up the budget" Reed will attend. Sen. Joe "I'll let Chuck pass the same mess he made last year" Scarnati will be there too. Speaker Mike Turzai has spurned the Governors invitation. Hm.
ReplyDeleteBTW. I'm doing my future comments on Geno Washingtons commercial real estate blog. You folks seem to only publish selectively. The list of comments you didn't publish that's circulating is a long and damning.
ReplyDeleteGeno will do well with that blog. LOL. So all you anonymous posters somehow found out who each other are, got together and complied a list of posts that didn't get published and are circulating it. Send me a copy. Once I get it I'll give you a good price on a bridge in exchange.
ReplyDeleteIt's History all right. You should have been a fortune teller.
ReplyDeleteCloser every time and you only have to lose once. You better hope Wolfie doesn't want something bad enough to do some trading too.
ReplyDeleteThis wasn't close at all. Just a sideshow. This has been over since June of 2013. Carry on.
ReplyDeleteYou should post you name, your phraseology just gives you away you know. In any case this is another in a long line of "it's never gonna happen" told by the UFCW. It's never going to leave committee, it's never going to pass the House, it's never going to make it past, L&J, It'll never leave appropriations,The Senate will never pass it, the House will never agree. Wrong just one more time and that is it.
ReplyDeleteYou can't stay and keep the citizens in the past forever.
Not unless it was needed to. Do you really believe it passed law and justice and the Senate on merit? I don't think so. This is not as simple as you would like. Keep on man, you have a tiny tribe living with you in your world. They need you man. Shelter them. There was a good article in the Pottstown Mercury the other day the sums thing up pretty honestly as commercial media goes. I'm sure you saw it. I'm sure you haven't shared it.
ReplyDeleteWhen you have half the legislature obstructing what the citizens have wanted for decades you can't expect perfection. That will be less of a problem next election cycle when the majorities are even larger.
ReplyDeleteAt least one more ethics problem, the feds looking into the PLCB, Kane should be indited by then and wonderful job Wolf is doing will see to that. Don't forget SCOTUS in that equation either. Closer every time.
Two of the three new senate members voted against it. The third immediately began supporting modernization before the ink was dry on the Veto. The traditional Senate supporters of the State System voted yes, with the guarantee from wolf he would veto, to shut up Wagner. Pretty sweet larger majority we have in the Senate!
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