egoodell
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Hi All,
If any of you enjoy a wine club or ordering wine online, I would appreciate it if you would take the time out to go to the "Save the Grape" link below and register your opposition to the current attempt of the distributors to take control over and stopping the shipping of wine online. It was a long hard battle with lots of money spent to give us this right that the distributors are trying to take away - to "protect" us.
HR 5034, the resolution is a bill being promoted by the National Beer Wholesalers of America. At this time is is being supported by 22 members of the House of Representatives.
They are trying to restrict the federal government’s ability to determine alcohol shipping policy. They want total control over the shipping and sale of wine in the USA. What is interesting is that Anheuser-Bush is not supporting this!
Their goal is to prohibit direct shipping from wineries to consumers.
This will result in no ordering wine online. No more ordering wine directly from any wineries. You will only be able to purchase wine sold in stores.
Their “argument” is that we consumers need “protection”.
You can help stop this by going to the link below on “Free the Grapes” where they have a form set up so that you can email your own representatives to tell them not to support this!
Don’t let them take us backwards! It was a hard fight to allow consumers to order wine online!! This form takes a minute to fill out and send!
http://www.capwiz.com/freegrapes/issues/alert/?alertid=14948676
Thank you,
Erika
If any of you enjoy a wine club or ordering wine online, I would appreciate it if you would take the time out to go to the "Save the Grape" link below and register your opposition to the current attempt of the distributors to take control over and stopping the shipping of wine online. It was a long hard battle with lots of money spent to give us this right that the distributors are trying to take away - to "protect" us.
HR 5034, the resolution is a bill being promoted by the National Beer Wholesalers of America. At this time is is being supported by 22 members of the House of Representatives.
They are trying to restrict the federal government’s ability to determine alcohol shipping policy. They want total control over the shipping and sale of wine in the USA. What is interesting is that Anheuser-Bush is not supporting this!
Their goal is to prohibit direct shipping from wineries to consumers.
This will result in no ordering wine online. No more ordering wine directly from any wineries. You will only be able to purchase wine sold in stores.
Their “argument” is that we consumers need “protection”.
You can help stop this by going to the link below on “Free the Grapes” where they have a form set up so that you can email your own representatives to tell them not to support this!
Don’t let them take us backwards! It was a hard fight to allow consumers to order wine online!! This form takes a minute to fill out and send!
http://www.capwiz.com/freegrapes/issues/alert/?alertid=14948676
Thank you,
Erika