Wine Politics Again!

[Alan Olsen]

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At 09:26 PM 5/9/97 -0800, Tim May wrote:
>At 4:09 AM -0800 5/9/97, Robert Hettinga wrote:
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>>X-Sender: mcooley at pop.tiac.net
>>Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 22:25:28
>>To: dcsb at ai.mit.edu
>>From: Marianne Cooley <mcooley at nethorizons.com>
>>Subject: Wine Politics Again!
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>>Hello friends of the Virtual Vineyards and family wineries. Remember the
>>felony direct shipping law in Georgia I wrote about a few weeks ago? Well,
>>Governor Miller signed it, unfortunately. Ship a bottle of wine, go to
>>jail. Amazing.
>...
>
>Thanks, Marianne and Bob, for the news.
>
>I am shipping a few bottles of California's finest merlot (much nicer that
>the trendy cabernets) to my sister and her husband in Hollywood, FL.
>
>Always nice to poke a sharp stick in the eyes of the fascists while also
>adding to my list of felonies (should I ever again enter Florida, which
>seems doubtful, at least not for a while).
>
>Chiles and his co-conspirators should be shot for high crimes against the
>Constitution. After Clinton, Freeh, Kerrey, and the other traitors.
>
>Every day that passes, I'm more convinced that McVeigh did the right thing.
>Some innocents died, but, hey, war is hell. Broken eggs and all that.

Florida is just following the lead of Kentucky (I am not sure of the state. 
Check the Wall Street Journal from last Thursday or Friday.) that has also
made shipping alcohol by mail a felony.  Seems the local distributors have
been having a fit about companies like Liquor By Mail cutting into their
monopoly.

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