CWPMA – Colorado Legislative Council staff has released language for a proposal to expand the amount of allowable liquor store licenses in Colorado. This is only relevant to CWPMA members in that the related initiative being run and financed by our members at 7-11 in conjunction with grocery interests will also make the ballot. The Below in being financed primarily by national liquor store chain total wine and spirits, who attempted to buy their way into a last minute legislative fix this last session. importantly this helps highlight how politics play into the initiative process.
“Taken as and excerpt”
“This measure does not impact grocery and convenience stores that currently sell only beer, which are allowed to have an unlimited number of locations. Additional information about retail liquor stores can be found in the summary and 18 analysis.
Because this measure may appear on the ballot fairly close to the initiative to expand the current beer license to include wine – the inclusion of this language is essentially a political maneuver to suggest that Convenience stores and grocery stores somehow have and advantage over national predatory chain liquor stores and as such is unfair….
More on this alter but I thought it would be salient to highlight the process here.
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