LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL: … A potent cocktail of opponents, including beer distributors, organized labor, social conservatives and Democrats, along with ambivalent House Republicans, a disinterested Senate and the absence of a significant political push by Corbett, all conspired to derail the bill, observers said.
“I always gave it about a 40 percent chance [of happening],” veteran Franklin & Marshall College political analyst G. Terry Madonna said. “They always run into a combination of things that militate against it.”
With a budget deadline and summer recess nearing, lawmakers wanted more time to understand the sweeping bill, said Jay Wiederhold, president of the Pennsylvania Beer Alliance, which represents wholesaling distributors… (more)
