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MA. and direct shipping
01-15-2010, 01:06 PM,
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Read the whole deal this morning after first hearing it on the news. This is actually the second loss for the ban. It was first struck down a year ago in a lower court, but an appeal was lodged by the MA Attorney General, Martha Coakley, at the urging of the Mass Beverage Control Commission backed by Wine and Spirits Wholesalers Assoc. This latest rebuff was from the Federal Appeals Court.

You all may have heard of Martha Coakley recently. She's a Democrat trying very hard to capture the "Kennedy seat" in the Senate. She's opposed by Republican Scott Brown, and as his numbers are surging her campaign has been running a huge number of campaign attack ads against him with partial information to make him look bad. All it's done is to make his numbers go up more. Now he's either even with her or slightly ahead, depending on the poll. I hope he wins, because it's about time someone came in to start to break up the Dems stranglehold on Massachusetts politics. As a for instance, the last three speakers of the MA House (all lawyers) have had criminal indictments lodged against them, and all have been disbarred. I could go on and on about the callous ways the Dem lawmakers have screwed the citizens here, but there's just not enough time. I mean, in a ballot referendum a few years back, we voted overwhelmingly for term limits and the legislators chose to disregard the will of the people and throw out the vote. It just goes on and on like that.
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