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Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Ohio’s wine-shipping laws: will legislators fix — or ‘fix’?
A VERY interesting story out of The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer headlined Wine shipping fix changes little for Ohioans.
So … legislators who admitted they muffed the punt the first time are trying to fix the state’s confusing, restrictive wine-shipping laws that they messed with before in what was, for all practical purposes, secret legislation. But a sponsor of the newest proposed “fix” says he has encountered opposition to relaxing the shipping restrictions from Ohio’s Wholesale Beer and Wine Association (no surprise) and from the Ohio Department of Commerce (huh??) — all behind closed doors, of course. Spokesmen for those groups say, essentially, “Who, us?”
And the questions remain: Will these most recent proposals — which are being kicked around in private among lobbyists and legislators — receive full and complete public scrutiny before being tacked onto an existing bill and rushed into law?
And most important: Who represents the consumer in these deliberations? Who is sitting at the negotiating table representing the consumers??
Just wondering …
Mark Fisher
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