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News Regional & State News Governor Corbett renews call to sell PA liquor stores
Friday, 25 November 2011 04:46

Governor Corbett renews call to sell PA liquor stores

Written by  Mary Wilson

(Harrisburg) -- Opponents of privatizing the state liquor system say the move would benefit large corporations and wholesalers, and terminate thousands of state store jobs. But, Governor Corbett says he can’t get past the logic of a state in the business of selling liquor. Heading into the commonwealth’s booziest holiday, especially in terms of traffic accidents caused by impaired driving, it may strike the casual observer as odd that the state is both selling alcohol and penalizing those who abuse it. Governor Corbett is repeating his mantra that the state should privatize its liquor system, which he says poses a conflict of interest. "We are enforcing the liquor laws, we are enforcing the drunk driving laws, we are enforcing the drinking laws, yet we have the main agency when it comes to liquor saying, ‘drink more,’" he says. "Get out of the business." Some 62 percent of Pennsylvania voters surveyed in a recent Quinnipiac University poll said they supported privatizing liquor stores. Last month, a private group commissioned by the governor to size up the state’s liquor system advised the stores should be sold off.

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