Bill best handled separately from current budget pressures

From the pressconnects.com comment page.

“Gov. Paterson’s push for wine sales in grocery stores has hit a wall, having been nixed by the Assembly and Senate. Even by tying the proposal to an estimated $300 million revenue bonanza, Paterson and grocery store-sales proponents have been unsuccessful again in getting this through the Legislature.

But the concept, first introduced nearly 30 years ago, shouldn’t be sent away to become legislative landfill. Instead the Wine Industry and Liquor Store Revitalization Act deserves more study, discussion and deliberation, separate from the desperation of the current budget process to which the bill has been linked. After all, 35 other states in the nation allow wine sales of one sort or another in outlets other than liquor stores. If they have managed it, why can’t New York?”

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