In early June, Robin Vos, Tyler August and Rob Swearingen (the former Tavern League president) introduced a bill that did all kinds of things to weaponize the State of Wisconsin Department of Revenue against “Wedding Barns” on behalf of the tavern league. The bill goes as far as to create a new division within the Department of Revenue! No reason to re-invent the wheel here, I’ll let you see read the Legislative Council memo for yourself.
The Bill that was passed was a modified bill SB268.
Here's a link to the entire bill history
NOTE: A wedding Barn, or Venue, for purposes of my position on the bill is a venue that does not sell alcoholic beverages. A venue that sells alcohol (i.e., has a bar) must have a license. The venue that the tavern league is “lobbying” to regulate does not sell any alcohol, however the party that rents the venue is allowed to bring in their own. Since the owners of the venue do not sell alcohol they do not need a liquor license. If you own a house on a lake and rent it out, the people who rent the house don’t need, or at least shouldn’t need, the Tavern Leagues permission to have alcohol. That’s a fairly simple concept in America. Someone needs to tell Robin Vos!
The bill in itself, for me, and I suspect EVERY conservative, is completely unacceptable. We have enough agencies weaponized against “we the people”. Although the lengths that Vos and August were willing to go, to kill a growing business at the behest of the tavern league is stunning the lengths they went to, with help from the RINO’s AND democrats in the senate to push the thing through is EVEN MORE stunning.
Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty’s deputy legal council Lucas Vebber explained it perfectly..
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The bill went over the Assembly where only three republicans voted against it.
Finally, look what the Vos sycophant from WISN had to say. Even Jay Weber knows better!
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