EXCLUSIVE: Local Liquor Stores File Lawsuit After I-1183  My Fox
Spokane Biz EXCLUSIVE: Local Liquor Stores File Lawsuit After
I-1183  CHENEY, Wash. - You may remember during last year's
election, one of the biggest issues on the ballot was initiative
1183, which privatized liquor sales in Washington state. With
its passage alcohol sales were handed over to private vendors on
June 1st. But it hasn't exactly been an easy transition, and
because of that today Spokane Attorney Kevin Roberts filed a
lawsuit on behalf of several current and former liquor stores.  
Prior to 1183 there were two types of liquor stores in the
state: those the Liquor Control Board owned, and those it had
contracts with. The stores they owned, the L.C.B. stocked the
shelves, all the money went to the state, and when 1183 passed,
those stores closed and people were out of work. At the contract
stores, the L.C.B. still stocked the shelves, the money went to
the state, but the private manager got a commission and with
that commission the