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[quote=Anonymous]Because of unions, MCGEO specifically. The county liquor stores employ 300 union workers. No one has the guts to privatize as everyone knows if the county has to compete with private sellers, the private sellers will outperform them and the county stores will quickly go out of business.

As for the "state law" thing, indeed all liquor laws are state not county law in MD, but it's up to MoCo. The way it works in Annapolis is for any law that affects just one county, the county's delegation agrees on how they will vote, and representatives of all other counties follow suit as a courtesy (which is reciprocated). Last time around, Delegate Frick tried to end the monopoly, but the other MoCo delegates, as well as the CoExec and County Council were opposed so he couldn't drum up enough support.

The DLC (MoCo monopoly) brings in $30mln in revenue and the County is addicted to it. They claim they cannot find any way to make up that shortfall if they were to privatize. That's bunk. They passed a $15/hour minimum wage which cost the county about $25mln/year and they found the money for that.

The current CoExec (Elrich) took in around $1mln in union donations via his super PAC in the last election, so you can bet he won't be fighting to end the monopoly.[/quote]

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