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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Liquor Stores: Voters Support Privatization

Pennsylvania’s governor announces his plan to privatize liquor sales and a poll shows voters favor privatization. What do you think?

The idea of privatizing Pennsylvania’s liquor stores is not new. The majority of voters support the idea, according to a Franklin & Marshall College Poll. Of those polled, 34 percent strongly supported and 19 percent somewhat supported privatization, while 10 percent somewhat opposed and 24 percent strongly opposed. Historic data shows an interesting swing in support. The combined support of both strongly and somewhat was 53 percent in this February 2012 poll and in a June 2002 poll, the combines support was 55 percent, but the breakdown was different. In 2012, 34 percent strongly supported privatization, which is down from 42 percent in 2002. In 2012, 19 percent somewhat supported privatization, which is up from 13 percent in 2002. Gov. …

waldo von erich

12:59 pm on Sunday, February 17, 2013

The idea of privatizing Pennsylvania’s liquor, iam in favor of it, the state should not be running liquor stores. why does not the retail clerks union buy some of the state stores so they can be employee owned and operated ? liquor control board is another group that should dissolved .   more ›

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Unions Happy New Booze Bill Won’t Close Stores

A union spokesman says that the stores not closing is the only thing they support in the new bill.

In what looks to be a welcome holiday gift to some 3,800 liquor store workers, the state legislature this week rewrote a privatization proposal for the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board so that the employees can keep their jobs. The union appreciates the change in the bill that means the stores would remain open, said Bill Epstein, a spokesman for the labor union that represents most of the employees, but that's all the union supports in the bill. According to Epstein and other sources, the state House Liquor Control Committee this week stripped out all sections of House Bill 11 that would have eliminated the Control Board, and the jobs of all of its employees. They inserted new language that will liberalize laws governing the sale of wine…

Jim

12:50 am on Monday, February 6, 2012

Hey Gil Specer, did you and your A.H. buddy Phil Heron see the results of this survey? Read it and weep you Scap! Show it to your two scap buddies,your Editor, of that scap rag, Phil Heron and Pat Meehan,the man with a thousand faces.Your boys Phil and Patty tried to be one of us when he was posing for holy pictures in Marcus Hook at Sunoco! Don,t forget senior citizens to come out and vote …   more ›

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