Anyone else watching this bullshit! I just wrote my congressman. God save me from my government trying to save me.

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h5034/show
http://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2010/04/open-letter-to-the-american-wine-trade-who-among-you.html
http://www.examiner.com/x-21001-Philadelphia-Budget-Wine-Examiner~y2010m4d17-Stop-HR-5034-Keep-Competition-and-the-Free-Market-Alive

Hope and change, baby. Hope and change.

I emailed my Congresscritter, for all the good it will do. I'm sure he takes contributions from the wholesaler lobby.

What do you expect from a congressman from Hackachusetts!!!

I see one of the NH reps ( not my district ) is a co-sponsor too. He's running for an open Senate seat this fall so hopefully he'll just disappear. I expect the one from my district will join in too since they con't seemed to think for themselves.

and he's retiring, not running for reelection in November .. read doesn't give a shit what the voters think (not that any of them ever really do)

nice big fat check in his pocket, and a future job lobbying for these fucks I bet

"Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win."
- Robert Heinlein

Look, when it comes to hooch, the whole system is rigged against us. Those who are supposed to speak for us have a nice gig. They get exclusive rights to distribute the booze, they don't have to worry about competition, and the state makes sure that that whatever it skims, the distributors get a piece of the action. It's as perfect a storm as you can get.

If you think you can make a change by talking to your congressman, then you're living in a world of unicorns, rainbows and free sodomy.

You say that like it's a bad thing, Gbob

Even better, sponsoring Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (yes, that Jesse Jackson), of IL owns major liquor rights throughout Chicago...Conflict of Interest? Nahhhh.