A need to privatize: Selling the LCB can solve a host of
problems  Written by Susan Mannella on .  State Rep. Mike Turzai
may have found a sales pitch for privatizing Pennsylvania's wine
and liquor monopoly that lawmakers will buy.  The House
Republican whip, from Bradford Woods, says Pennsylvania should
sell licenses for as many as 750 retail stores and 100 wholesale
distribution centers for alcoholic beverages, excluding beer, in
order to raise at least $2 billion. That would go a long way
toward resolving the state's looming pension crisis, or filling
some other funding gaps.  Many of the earlier efforts to abolish
the antiquated remnant of Prohibition were based on the
perfectly reasonable attempt to make it more convenient for
adults to buy wine and spirits, but the arguments never won the
day. The most vocal opponents were employees of the state stores
and Mothers Against Drunk Driving and other groups that fear
widespread abuses without state control over the sale of
alcohol.  Mr. Turzai's proposal con