SALT LAKE CITY -- Utahs scandal-plagued, state-owned liquor business will have a new management scheme. After weeks of back-room negotiations, legislators and the governor have found a compromise.
Right now, in Utah the governor is mostly excluded from liquor policy. He will get a lot more power in liquor. But he will have to share power with the independent liquor commission. All of this change is in the hope of avoiding new scandals.
We have reached a compromise on the governance for alcohol policy for the state of Utah, said Sen. John Valentine. Governor Gary Herbert wanted the liquor commission to disappear. He wanted the governor to run liquor, as he runs other state departments. Prior to 1977, we had it all under the executive branch, said Valentine. But Valentine studied history. When liquor was under the governor, distilleries donated booze to the governor's fundraising gala. And in 1976, under Governor Calvin L. Rampton, there was a scandal. We ended up with five indictments. We ended up with a governor who ended up with 30 cases of booze up at the mansion that we couldnt account for, said Valentine. So the legislature created the liquor commission. But now under the commission, former Liquor Chief Dennis Cullen is accused of insider dealing with a firm owned by his son. In running the state liquor business, Utah moves from scandal to scandal. Utah has tried the governor running liquor, and tried the commission running liquor, and after this latest scandal, Utah will try a combination of the governor and the commission.
(Copyright 2012 Sinclair Broadcast Group) Legislators, Governor Find Comprise For Liquor Business Management
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