State Rep. Taborsak: Sunday liquor sales on "life support"

Ken Dixon brings us the bad news from State Rep Joe Taborsak:

Word around the Capitol in recent days has it that the bill that would allow Sunday alcohol sales in retail locations is just a Kansas-tornado house away from ending up like the Wicked Witch of the East, only without any ruby-red slippers poking out. Rep. Joseph Taborsak, D-Danbury, co-chairman of the General Law Committee, just told the Blogster that with the March 15 “JF” deadline – for joint-favorable action – set for next Tuesday, he’s still not sure whether he and Sen. Paul Doyle, D-Wethersfield, will bring the bill up for a vote. If their meeting comes and goes without a vote, Sunday sales is dead for another year.

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”The bill has for some time been on life support,” Taborsak said in a phone interview. “It’s not dead. I subscribe to the philosophy that you don’t call bills that don’t have the votes to pass and so that’s really why the bill has not gotten called. The vote’s close enough so we can’t say it’s dead. It has a chance. It’s such a moving target.”

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