Is time right to sell state stores? State senator pushes bill to privatize liquor sales
Source: By Steve Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA), Tuesday, June 12, 2007
A Montgomery County state senator wants Pennsylvania to get out of the retail wine and liquor business -- and one of his proposals involves selling a 51 percent stake in the state store system to a private equity firm to "wring out" inefficiencies before selling it off completely.
Other possibilities include an outright sale or contracting long-term leases.