Tuesday, December 16, 2008

A Cloud On The Horizon

I don't know how I missed Wark's ongoing dissection of the questions revolving around 734, but I did. In terms of the litigatory plans of our distributors, Wark is quite cynical and almost certainly correct:
The new law would allow both in-state and out-of-state wineries making less than 4,200 cases of wine per year to self distribute to retailers and restaurants in OK. GREAT!!

However, the law says that they may only do so with vehicles that they own themselves. They may not use any other types of carriers.

In addition, the bill says that if any part of this law is deemed unconstitutional, the rest of the bill will be invalidated and wineries may no longer self distribute.

This potential new law is so clearly discriminatory against out of state wineries, and on a number of levels at that, that if challenged it should most certainly be invalidated by the courts.

So…Wait for it…..Do you think the OK distributors will challenged the law once the voters approve it?…And they will approve it!

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