Texas liquor agency rebuked after investigation of Spec's
Leaders at the Texas Capitol love to bash what they call out-of-control bureaucrats at city halls and in Washington, D.C., but a recent case pitting the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission against Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods looks like state regulatory overreach on steroids.
After an investigation of the state’s largest liquor retailer, the TABC sought to yank permits for all 164 of the company’s stores — which would effectively shut it down — or hit Spec's with fines of up to $713 million, according to court documents filed last week.
The agency also put the company’s expansion plans on ice by freezing Spec’s new permit applications during the three-year probe, records show.
What did Spec’s, a family-run company based in Houston, do to deserve the business equivalent of the death penalty? That’s what a couple of Texas administrative law judges wondered last week.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/politics/texas/article/Texas-liquor-agency-rebuked-after-investigation-11260279.php
Leave Spec's alone. They have several of my favorite beer brands, olive tapenade, applewood smoke mozzarella cheese, and Zots candies.
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