MY LETTER TO G&W

[Jerry D Mead]

//You too can send a missive to G&W at services@geerwade.com //


Your support for the Orrin Hatch bill is not only disgustingly self-serving, but extremely short-sighted. You are supporting people who are not just anti-interstate shipping, but anti-wine and anti-alcohol period.

One of the supporters, through your fellow monopolists the wholesalers, is ARAA which has already come out against even the "intrastate" shipping on which you flourish.

To support anti-wine, anti-free trade, legislation simply to enhance what you see as a short term competitive advantage is not just simply stupid...it is dangerous to all wine lovers.

As a result, I will do whatever I can to discourage wine lovers doing any business with you for so long as your persist in supporting the bad guys. Lay down with dogs...get up with fleas! I'd say you already have them (fleas)...next thing you know you'll be barking too.

Jerry D. Mead
Nationally Syndicated Columnist
Editor & Publisher, The Wine Trader
Box 1598
Carson City, NV 89702
(775) 884-2648
E-mail: winetrader@aol.com