The Polling Has Begun

One of our Klickitat Democrats was called the other night.

I got one of those “taking a poll” calls on Saturday. The primary focus of the call seemed to be that they were polling people to see If they thought it was a good idea to get rid of 800-900 union jobs for the State Liquor control, close all the state liquor stores and put the sales of liquor in the grocery stores. For some reason, I tend to think the poll might have also been related to Safeway, Costco or Walmart, because my attitude toward all three was asked.

I don’t agree with putting liquor sales in the stores. Too little control on who buys it….

We've got some serious budget issues in our state, as do most of the lower 48. There will probably lots of polls coming to take the pulse of the people. Usually you can't figure out where they are coming from until near the end, when more questions are asked about your reaction to specific companies, people or products.

So it would be interesting if our readers would send in their polling experiences. Gives us all something to think about (in case we get called). Feel free to share comments and experiences.

As for the State Liquor stores, this writer has lived in half a dozen states with laws that range from all alcohol, including wine and beer, sold in liquor stores only to all alcohol sold everywhere and you can drink it in public as long as it is in a plastic cup (think French Quarter). I have no problem with WA having State Liquor stores, for control purposes as well as the alcohol awareness programs they fund. Alcohol abuse is a serious problem, especially among our young people. I drink mostly wine and beer anyway, conveniently available in grocery stores. Getting rid of state liquor stores is not high on my priority list of issues, though I'm sure the big chains which would like to get a piece of the action disagree.