New Jersey

JustAnotherGen

(33,555 posts) Wed Sep 2, 2015, 06:02 PM Sep 2015

Assembly Bill 4627 - Liquor License Expansion

Anyone here aware of this? I've had a response from my State Senator that he would like to meet with me and a few of the other folks in our borough.

For those of you for this or opposed -

Why? I have my own talking points - but interested in thoughts of others regarding this.

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Assembly Bill 4627 - Liquor License Expansion (Original Post) JustAnotherGen Sep 2015 OP

This reminds me of when will we see a federal bill allowing online poker again. randys1 Sep 2015 #1

The present laws were a response to temperance and prohibition. They are outdated. Hoppy Sep 2015 #2

1948 in NJ JustAnotherGen Sep 2015 #3

The battle now is against the people who hold the licenses and distributorships. Hoppy Sep 2015 #4

I think it's against the state too JustAnotherGen Sep 2015 #5

randys1

(16,286 posts)

1. This reminds me of when will we see a federal bill allowing online poker again.

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Wed Sep 2, 2015, 06:19 PM

Sep 2015

Hoppy

(3,595 posts)

2. The present laws were a response to temperance and prohibition. They are outdated.

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Wed Sep 2, 2015, 07:34 PM

Sep 2015

JustAnotherGen

(33,555 posts)

3. 1948 in NJ

Reply to Hoppy (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 2, 2015, 08:00 PM

Sep 2015

Thats when the statutes were put on the books.

It's so bad that down in Cherry Hill a few years ago someone paid 1.5 million dollars for a consumption license.

Meanwhile in Wildwood - with a permanent residency of 5300 - they have 61 licenses.

My town - zero. And we are not a dry town.

Hoppy

(3,595 posts)

4. The battle now is against the people who hold the licenses and distributorships.

Reply to JustAnotherGen (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 2, 2015, 10:49 PM

Sep 2015

JustAnotherGen

(33,555 posts)

5. I think it's against the state too

Reply to Hoppy (Reply #4)

Thu Sep 3, 2015, 03:15 AM

Sep 2015

This bill will allow a restaurant at main street to serve wine, beer, and spirits as long as it is served at a table. The 35 dry towns can remain dry - but those that aren't - need Trenton to get out of our way.

The distributor license is very different than the retail consumption license.

The distributors could win big in this scenario - as could the wholesalers - and entirely different license.

I think the "a" plan (how I'm approaching this) needs to be wine, beer, and spirits. . . The win could be just wine and beer.

We don't (in our town) want to be New Hope PA - but a "date night" destination. A successful Tapas restaurant from the town I used to live in made clear to me . . . jag - we could do a second restaurant with wine and craft beer. Their clientele does the small plate almost always with a tasting of the country's wine or a beer. When they looked at the wealth demographics of our county - and then our borough (county seat) - it could be a money maker.

They don't draw from us in our old town - we tend to go over the border to New Hope.

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