Comments on: Oklahoma alcohol reform back in the news

By: charlie

charlie — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:35:37 +0000

I agree Nick. Let’s start by allowing stores to be open on Sunday. Personally do we really need to buy bad wine at WalMart??

Who is on the commitee? I read there was a brewery, winery, joe public etc.

By: BC

BC — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:06:44 +0000

The part that baffles me is every other state that surrounds us (and the majority of the country for that matter) has “some how” figured this thing out, yet we are still sitting around looking at each other in dismay. This CAN’T be that difficult. There is going to have to be some compromise, but until then we look like the idiots the stereotypes portray us to be.

The first problem was creating a task force of 300 people (I am being sarcastic about the number of people) from all walks of life to “figure” this thing out. Let me get this straight, you created a task with well over a dozen people, all with different political views, stake in the game, and desired outcomes and expected them to come to a reasonable solution that everyone is accepting of. Good luck with that. I often feel the State Government creates such task forces in order to further delay what we are asking for. Looks like I am correct in my assumption as that is exactly what is happening.

Come to Oklahoma – where our State and Local Government protects us from the harms of fantastic tasting beer.

I, for one, don’t know what I would do without your protection. Thanks Oklahoma!

By: Amber Hinkle

Amber Hinkle — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:43:59 +0000

I absolutely 100% agree! The only part you missed was being able to take your kids into the liquor stores with you! I know this sounds crazy, but seriously. If I’m going to buy alcohol for my 5 and 8 year old daughters I am probably not going to pop open the bottle of Cuervo in the liquor store and hand it over. I’m going to at least wait until I get home (humor!) to give it to them! They can stand right next to me in the grocery store while I put my 6pk of Amber Bock in the cart… What’s the difference? Oh yeah, the ABLE commission doesn’t think 3.2 beer is intoxicating. Hmmm…..