99.8% of the time I steer clear here of so-called political things, but as election day approaches Initiative 1183 hits close to home in Washington, the State of. Living here it’s hard to avoid hearing and seeing all the bullshit hyped up advertising featuring fire fighters, nurses and cops with deep pocket funding from the liquor industry that would like to continue to make healthy profits in our current state-run liquor store system and deeper pocket funding from the grocery industry that will start making healthy profits when they can sell hard liquor.
It’s too bad all the advertising dollars spent by both sides of the issue couldn’t go towards something productive and useful for our strapped state government.
I encourage you to learn the facts and vote accordingly.
The Anti-1183 crowd is hyping up a lot of shit about how dangerous liquor not sold by the state is. But you know what else is dangerous? Only being able to buy liquor in a 10,000sqft+ store. The IGA would be your only downtown option. In some smaller towns if the old state run liquor store doesn't become the new private liquor store you'd be SOL.
