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	<title>Comments on: Wine Communism: U.S. State&#8217;s Non-Compliance to Wine Shipping Laws</title>
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		<title>By: Joe Roberts, CSW</title>
		<link>http://www.1winedude.com/index.php/2008/01/23/wine-communism-us-states-non-compliance-to-wine-shipping-laws/#comment-33</link>
		<dc:creator>Joe Roberts, CSW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What&#039;s great about FreeTheGrapes.org is that they have pre-populated note (which you can edit if you like).  You type in your ZIP code, and it will find your legislators and e-mail the note to them (&#039;signed&#039; by you).  So they&#039;ve done most of the legwork for you, which is awesome.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I&#039;ve personally used this in the past, and I&#039;ve had one of the legislators respond back to me in support of the views.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;You can check it out here:&lt;br/&gt;http://www.capwiz.com/freegrapes/issues/alert/?alertid=115967&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Interestingly... I&#039;ve checked some of the stats for my blog traffic for this post, &lt;i&gt;and I&#039;m seeing activity coming from  domains like &quot;state.pa.us&quot; and &quot;senate.gov&quot;&lt;/i&gt; - so it looks like it&#039;s already getting some minor attention!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What&#8217;s great about FreeTheGrapes.org is that they have pre-populated note (which you can edit if you like).  You type in your ZIP code, and it will find your legislators and e-mail the note to them (&#8216;signed&#8217; by you).  So they&#8217;ve done most of the legwork for you, which is awesome.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve personally used this in the past, and I&#8217;ve had one of the legislators respond back to me in support of the views.</p>
<p>You can check it out here:<br /><a href="http://www.capwiz.com/freegrapes/issues/alert/?alertid=115967" rel="nofollow">http://www.capwiz.com/freegrapes/issues/alert/?alertid=115967</a></p>
<p>Interestingly&#8230; I&#8217;ve checked some of the stats for my blog traffic for this post, <i>and I&#8217;m seeing activity coming from  domains like &#8220;state.pa.us&#8221; and &#8220;senate.gov&#8221;</i> &#8211; so it looks like it&#8217;s already getting some minor attention!</p>
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		<title>By: SB Wine Advocate</title>
		<link>http://www.1winedude.com/index.php/2008/01/23/wine-communism-us-states-non-compliance-to-wine-shipping-laws/#comment-32</link>
		<dc:creator>SB Wine Advocate</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Joe,&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Would you be willing to share the letters you wrote your congressman. Maybe people could use those as a start to send in their own letters. Its astounding to me how this stuff is still allowed to go on but then I get mad that there&#039;s and IRS and not just a flat tax for everyone.. Too many people have too much money to gain by preventing free access to wines. Not to you can&#039;t buy healthcare insurance from another state.. less competition there too.. and thus high insurance rates..  Where&#039;s my Presidential candidate.. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;That was a rant.. I had too much coffee.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Joe,</p>
<p>Would you be willing to share the letters you wrote your congressman. Maybe people could use those as a start to send in their own letters. Its astounding to me how this stuff is still allowed to go on but then I get mad that there&#8217;s and IRS and not just a flat tax for everyone.. Too many people have too much money to gain by preventing free access to wines. Not to you can&#8217;t buy healthcare insurance from another state.. less competition there too.. and thus high insurance rates..  Where&#8217;s my Presidential candidate.. </p>
<p>That was a rant.. I had too much coffee.</p>
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		<title>By: Joe Roberts, CSW</title>
		<link>http://www.1winedude.com/index.php/2008/01/23/wine-communism-us-states-non-compliance-to-wine-shipping-laws/#comment-31</link>
		<dc:creator>Joe Roberts, CSW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks, Matthew!  I appreciate the comment.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;I enjoyed the press release - especially the part about being able to buy missile parts on-line more easily than wine! - I wish I could purchase wine from your site... but of course you know the Communist-wealth of Pennsylvania would consider us both criminals if that happened! ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks, Matthew!  I appreciate the comment.</p>
<p>I enjoyed the press release &#8211; especially the part about being able to buy missile parts on-line more easily than wine! &#8211; I wish I could purchase wine from your site&#8230; but of course you know the Communist-wealth of Pennsylvania would consider us both criminals if that happened! ;-)</p>
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		<title>By: Matthew</title>
		<link>http://www.1winedude.com/index.php/2008/01/23/wine-communism-us-states-non-compliance-to-wine-shipping-laws/#comment-30</link>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great, great post.  Very well presented information.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;We recently responded to the wine.com situation over at Classic Wines, but in our press release we inform the reader that the real menace is american shipping laws.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;We&#039;ve joined the SWRA and free the grapes, and encourage others to listen to the dude!&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;In case your interested, &lt;a HREF=&quot;http://www.classicwines.com/shipping-laws.php&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;view our press release regarding wine.com and shipping laws&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great, great post.  Very well presented information.</p>
<p>We recently responded to the wine.com situation over at Classic Wines, but in our press release we inform the reader that the real menace is american shipping laws.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve joined the SWRA and free the grapes, and encourage others to listen to the dude!</p>
<p>In case your interested, <a HREF="http://www.classicwines.com/shipping-laws.php" REL="nofollow">view our press release regarding wine.com and shipping laws</a>.</p>
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