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GOP Senate Candidate Took Bold Stance Against the Sale of Alcohol … in Wisconsin
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Last Edited | RP Mar 13, 2024 12:37pm |
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Author | Tessa Stuart |
News Date | Wednesday, March 13, 2024 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | Eric Hovde, who’s running for office in a state famous for its booze, bemoaned the commercialization of alcohol in 2017
Wisconsin is famous for its booze. The brands Miller, Schlitz, Pabst, and Blatz were all founded in Milwaukee, a city whose baseball team is the Brewers, and which is often called the “beer capital of the world.” Across the state, bars outnumber grocery stores roughly three-to-one, for a total of about eight pubs per every 10,000 people. To say alcohol is an important industry in Wisconsin is to undersell the fact: It accounts for more than 161,000 jobs that pay out roughly $3.2 billion |
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