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Is There a Financial Interest in Legalizing Alcohol Sales?

There's no real room for the general public unless they somehow get organized as a coalition of concerned citizens or something. No one has an incentive to organize unless you like really passionately cared about legalizing alcohol sales. In Arkansas there are no liquor stores at all in these counties. There's no one that could sell it and so Walmart often end up being the financial interest that will fund the legalization efforts. They have actually been the financialinterest that has been driving. The Walton family, who own Walmart personally funded some attempts to legalize this but were not always successful. You know I'm not exactly sure why anyone from Walmart corporate wants to call me and tell me what their position is on  alcohol

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