Minnesota running out of booze, cigarettes due to government shutdown

[sasha031]

this will really piss off the right

The liquor industry has become the latest victim of a government shutdown in Minnesota.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Tuesday that bars, restaurants and stores are already running out of supplies because many of them must renew their $20 state-issued alcohol purchasing cards before replenishing inventories.

Already 425 establishments have been left with expired cards and it’s just expected to get worse. Another 116 cannot buy liquor because they can’t pay their delinquent tax bills.

“This is going to treadmill across the whole state the longer hold out,” Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton told the paper. “It’s going to hit every bar and restaurant that needs a liquor license.”

“This doesn’t just affect retailers, but wholesalers, and the manufacturers, and wedding parties, and church functions, and one day liquor licenses for charity events, and festivals and the list goes on and on and on,” Minnesota Licensed Beverage Association’s Frank Ball told KARE 11.

If the issue isn’t resolved by Labor Day, cigarette smokers could be in the same situation.
http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/07/minnesota-running-out-of-booze-cigarettes-due-to-government-shutdown/

[Snotcicles]

1. That will get the ball rolling. nt

[geardaddy]

2. The state is losing millions by the day

thanks to the idiot Repubs who want to hold the state hostage to their social engineering program.

[meegbear]

3. When they run out of toliet paper, LOOK OUT!

[TBMASE]

4. Well, it's a good way to lower drunk driving rates

and help people quit smoking.

[Ganja Ninja]

5. This could get ugly.

I wonder if the Twins games will be affected?

[geardaddy]

8. The Twinkies are privately owned.

They got us Hennepin county residents to pay for their new stadium.

[cliffordu]

6. What about travel money??? are they losing that, too???

[slackmaster]

17. What you did there, I see it!

[cliffordu]

20. Well...

:rofl:

[Kingofalldems]

7. Who is getting the blame for this in Minn.?

[geardaddy]

9. Repubs are blaming Dayton

and DFLers are blaming the Repub-led legislature.

[fivepennies]

10. I'll bet they're really

missing Jesse now!!!

[Brickbat]

12. Um, no.

No, not so much.

[geardaddy]

14. Agree.

Jesse? Nah.

[fivepennies]

15. Well, I suppose there are always some

who find a surplus objectionable. Can't make everybody happy all the time.

[vrp]

11. Now

its really serious!! I'm a native of Minnesota, and a state shutdown would have been unfathomable when I was growing up in the 50's-60s. Minnesota used to be a bastion of liberal/progressive thought. What happened?

[Brickbat]

13. It's embarrassing, isn't it? "The Good Life in Minnesota" was because government was working by and

for the people. This is a farce.

[geardaddy]

16. The creeps came out from under their rocks.

That's what happened.

[kickysnana]

24. See: Moon, GOP, CIA, Evangelical Churches, Antiunionism in workplace

...attacks on public schools in the 1980's included with that was not teaching logic and history; our newspapers and TV stations going corporate in the 1990's; DFL losing its way in the 1990's; Christian based filtering software on computers; death of our grandparents and great grandparents who did the sacrificing and fighting for the programs we are tossing away for imaginary crises because too many people were brainwashed by all of the above (except evidently their grandparents.)

[comtec]

18. They shut down before THE BUSIEST WEEkEND OF THE YEAR

The amount of money the state is loosing in taxes, license fees, et al is staggering enough...but that they could not even agree on a 2 month extension so we'd have the summer revenue (the state fair is in 4 weeks iirc) is beyond imagination....the gop should NEVER HOLD A PUBLIC OFFICE AGAIN!!!!!

I dont like the idea of one party rule, but as the dems are corporate friendly enough we should have a REAL LIBERAL PARTY... LABOR!

[JHB]

19. Lake Wobegon starting to feel woe again

[Newest Reality]

21. Interesting new

jobs creation program.

Yes, join the new, growing and lucrative Black Market. Coming to a hovel near you.

I am due many experiences, BTW.

[geardaddy]

22. Well, my MN beer and travel money

aren't forthcoming thanks to douchenozzles like Zellers and Koch.

[Blue Owl]

23. THANKS REPUBLICANS!

Now every day is like Sunday in Minnesota.