OLCC scandal makes front page! Senators reply with bonus power

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com

This last week, it made front page news that the many top executives at the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission (OLCC) were fined for cheating/mishandling their liquor inventory.

At the exact same moment, several Oregon Senators rolled out their plan to massively expand OLCC power buy allowing them to handle much of the vaping businesses by forcing certain vaping products to be only sold in liquor stores.   They are pushing Senate Bill 702.

It is as though the politicians were trying to salvage the reputation of the scandalized OLCC.

Even worse, the call to arms to rally behind more OLCC power was supported by mostly politicians’ themselves.  Just look at who responded to their Instagram town-hall on expanding OLCC power.

Here is the inside details.

Liquor stores do not want anything to do with this project.

Vaping stores do not wish to go bankrupt by being forced to surrender to their product sales to liquor stores.

The only people who want this big power-grab are state politicians.

Just look at the OLCC scandals recently:

• Abuse of government power: Forces private businesses to shut down and move their product to other private businesses to make a profit.
• Liquor benefit raises serious ethical questions.  Are they lobbying to use government power to carve out this product exclusivity?
• Handing more power to a non-stop scandal agency: OLCC has been involved in several scandals involving (1) their rare liquor inventory cheated customers (2) failure to control illegal marijuana sales (3) financial mismanagement of their new building by tens of millions of dollars and (4) transparency scandal and (5) improper executive conduct at a recent liquor control conference.

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