Yeah, ‘Cuz Bringing Home the Bacon and The Riesling Is Our Job
Pennsylvania Republican Governor Tom Corbett knows what is important to women. Liquor laws, that’s what!
He wants to reform liquor laws in his state to help the little woman.
“I think a lot of people want to be able to walk into a grocery store,” Corbett said. “Particularly, a lot of the women, want to be able to go in and buy a bottle of wine for dinner, go down buy a six pack or two six packs, buy dinner, and go home. Rather than what I just described, is at least three stops, in Pennsylvania.”
Yeah, and we can pay them less if they only have to make one stop on the way home.
Now, I have to ask, if the little woman is bringing home a bottle of wine, 2 six-packs of beer, and one dinner, you think maybe she’s on the verge of killing some damn man?
LOL … that should be TWO bottles of wine and not some cheap Dago Red either; and only ONE 6 pack of Bud or whatever and then hubby can damn well take her out to dinner so she won’t have to cook … besides, after 2 bottles of wine, she probably shouldn’t be too close to an open flame on the stove anyway!!
1With a governor like this, it’s amazing that more women aren’t bringing home Jack, Johnny, Grandad, and the Captain.
2I’m sorry to say that this ridiculous utterance is the least of his peccadillos. His goal is to kill anything with the word “public” in front of it, and he has all the hallmarks of a Third World dictator who lets First World mining companies plunder the state’s natural resources and pay nothing for it but a generous donation to his personal (campaign) account. Even Texas has a resource extraction tax.
3What the bleep is he talking about? Pennsylvania had Canadian liquor laws? I remember a time when women had to enter a pub via a different door than the men and they were seated on the “women’s” side of the room. He really met be severely cut off from reality!
4Put more women to work and send them out for a couple of 99 packs and a tanker truck full of wine and the neighbors can bring their own food.
5Some PA commenters on Balloon Juice were saying that Corbett may be hearing more from women about this. It’s not the best way to put it, though. You can’t buy a six-pack in Pennsylvania, you have to buy beer by the case. The selections in the state liquor stores are really limited.
6Pennsylvania has so much more wrong with it than this piddling problem!
7I have bought six-packs of beer from places who serve food and also sell beer, in PA. Corbutt is clueless on so many things, but on this issue, he’s attempting another union bust.
8The Pittsburgh Labor Council told him not to march in their Labor Day parade. He’s also drained a billion from PA schools, forcing them to cut music, art and phys ed, while giving away the store to the oil companies who are polluting our water and land with the chemicals they use to frack. His voter ID law was struck down by the state courts.
He’s on track to lose to Democrat Tom Wolf in November, god willing.
I’m freaking amazed. Most of the grocery stores in my area, (except one, which is new, have a selection of wine and beer… I called and asked… they carry beer only,) but most carry a reasonable selection of alcoholic beverages….. both in the bottle, and in the carton. I can get a decent Red or White, (don’t drink beer…. too much salt) or whatever…..at most any grocery in my area.
If it’s not available in Pennsyldamnedvania….. maybe they do need a new Governor.
Or maybe they need “Fiesta” with their adjacent “Beverage Stores”…… whatever. Or H.E.B. with their lovely wine selections. Geessh.
It isn’t just women. Men also shop for that “______ Light” stuff to go with the grillin’.
How backward are these people …… anyway???
9With Corbett telling the women of Pennsylvania what their priorities are (liquor laws), hopefully those women will return him the favor, and vote to give him a nice long vacation from the governor’s mansion.
He won’t have to prioritize his time once he’s unemployed either, with all the time he’ll save buying his booze.
10It hasn’t been that long since liquor laws were very arcane, in Texas, Oklahoma, and all over the place. I remember when you couldn’t legally buy liquor by the drink in Texas, and we had to go to Oklahoma to buy anything with alcohol. You had to go to a state liquor store to buy anything with more than 3.2% alcohol, and they couldn’t serve it cold, only room temperature. We had to drive more than 100 miles to buy beer in Texas. There are still places in the U.S. of A. that still haven’t made it into the 20th Century.
I also remember when it was a felony to carry wire pliers (pronounced “war plahrs”) in Texas.
11PA has state stores for wine & liquor purchases. We also have Beer Distributors for beer by the case & kegs, soda etc…. Six packs to go can be purchased at some pizza joints etc….
Over 50 years in PA and I have never heard one person complain about the lack of selling alcohol in grocery stores.
Corbett’s searching for something that ain’t there and blaming it on women.
12Origuy, You can buy a six pack. You have to go to a bottle shop, where your purchase is limited to 72 ounces.) We now have two grocery stores that sell beer (got the licenses to serve beer in their food courts.) At least locally, our selections are pretty good. The number of single malts is impressive. The PLCB has even experimented with a subset of stores having extensive wine collections. When I can’t find special things for gifts in the stores, the people in charge are very good on special orders.
I think the store stock depends on what sells in a particular area. I personally think they assign too much space to blush wines and flavored vodka. Come on people, rose is just as good as the blush. For the latter, get the cheap stuff and go to a store that sells baking supplies to get the flavorings then mix the vodka and flavoring with simple syrup, but this is a college town and that would be too complicated.
13Great news! Corbett finally saw the light and accepted the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare for PA. He is doing anything he can to get reelected, but it’s too little, too late!
14I stand corrected. I know Pennsylvania has lots worse problems than not being able to buy beer in the grocery store. I’m just going by what I read elsewhere.
15Love the irony in that each time a Republican goober reaches out to women, he inserts both feet in his mouth and lands on his butt. “See here, little ladies, I’m a good guy. I’ve made it easier for you to buy your husband’s beer and dinner.” Oh yeah, those 50s era stereotypes will just wow the women folk. Reince, a year at Miss Potter’s would not polish your boys.
Oh, and Reince, the DREAM youth are really clowning your boys. Three blind mice, see how they run …..
BTW Reince, where’s the Republican outreach in Ferguson?
16In the entire state of Pennsylvania, all wine and all liquor is purchased at state-owned stores called, appropriately enough, Wine and Spirits. That’s it. No other places can legally sell wine or ‘spirits.’ It’s been that way for a long time. And all the jobs held in those stores are good-paying Union jobs. The Governor wants to privatize it so he can bust the Unions and cut loose the public aspect. ALL BEER is purchased – only – at ‘beer stores’ or distributorships, and you can only buy it by the case, not a mixed case, but an entire case, at these beer stores. They are all privately owned. If you want, as I might, just a six-pack to keep on-hand, you have to go to a bar and purchase six – or twelve – or whatever – beers. It’s arcane, a leftover that mixes the worst from the Quaker history in PA with the worst of Mafia control there. I moved.
17Hilary has it correct. While I think it is stupid to have to make three stops for beer, wine and food, I wouldn’t trust our gov. one inch to make good decisions, and I believe he is union busting too. So far, he hasn’t managed to privatize this, reform pensions or property taxes, and he opens his mouth around women and the damnedest things come out, so this one is nothing new. So far, Tom Wolfe has him beat by about 25%. He invented his own medicare thing, which passed muster with the US just today, and he was forced to NOT require people to be searching for work to qualify. He’s really a one-man farce, and we can’t wait for him to go. Voter ID perished, tho, so that was a good thing– he isn’t challenging it. Our legislature, the largest in the nation, and the laziest, is totally useless. We seem to be run by no one, and we have smarmy Toomey as a senator, so we are equally blessed in that department, too.
18Sorry– Medicaid thingy…
19I remember the ABC stores from my brief sojourn in PA. Yuck.
20You aren’t really going to argue that it is a legitimate role of government to provide high paying union jobs to clerks in state run liquor stores, are you? I can’t think of a valid reason to have the state run any retail operation selling every day products to the general public. Keep in mind that the stated goal of Pa. Liquor laws at the time of enactment was to make buying alcohol as expensive and inconvenient as possible.
21Mr. Moderate, I think the real issue of the state stores should not be that the state is providing union jobs but that the state is so short of money that it can’t really afford to let go of its monopoly on wine and spirits.
22Corbett’s campaign manager just accused the state’s most prominent pollster of trying to influence the election with bad polls. “Bad” as in, the Rs are getting their butts kicked.
23http://keystonepolitics.com/2014/08/pagov-meltdown-corbett-campaign-manager-accuses-terry-madonna-unfairly-influencing-election-bad-polls/
I live in PA. My husband does the shopping and the state store is right next to the market. No big deal to walk out one door and into another. If they sold beer in the markets it would put a lot of small business owners out of business because that is who owns most distributor stores. Bottom line is some tycoon that owns a grocery chain is paying him to change things. That is how Buttcore operates. And now he is showing the world just how out of touch he is when it comes to normal everyday people. He has no clue that a lot of men are the shoppers in today’s world.
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