Summary
Alcohol Industry Spent $3 Million in 2009 to Loosen Regulations and Defeat Billions in Taxes and Fees
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Alcohol industry watchdog Marin Institute released a new report today that chronicles an enormous outlay of beer, wine, and spirits dollars to California legislators and the Governor's budget reform political action committee in 2009. The report suggests a "smoking gun" relationship between Governor Schwarzenegger's $751 million alcohol tax proposal and its disappearance a few months later while his initiative PAC collected $671,000 in alcohol industry donations.See the full content of this document
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Big Bang for Booze Bucks
The report, A Lot of Bang for Booze Bucks: Big Alcohol's 2009 Lobbying in California, documents more than $3 million dollars funne...
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