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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, 51, humiliated while trying to buy spiked lemonade from a liquor store
Daily Mail ^ | 19 Sept 2024 | Sarah Ewall-Wice, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Posted on 09/19/2024 8:11:15 PM PDT by blueplum

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was planning to celebrate a victory in the state with a new law allowing the sale of ready-to-drink cocktails...

The 51-year-old showed up at a Rutter's convenience store in central Pennsylvania to buy liquor after recently signing a new law expanding the sale of canned cocktails...

A local reporter in attendance observed him make his selection, Surfside Lemonade & Vodka, which is from the state.

Shapiro reportedly picked up several cases and claimed they'd be on him.

But it was not meant to be after he realized he did not have the proper identification to make the purchase....

Video shows one person jokingly asking if they were going to card him as the governor laughed....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: cannedcocktails; pennsylvania; realitychecks; shapiro; voterid
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To: MayflowerMadam
I’m closer to 80 than 70, and am asked for ID every single time. Tennessee.

Yeah, but you look about 26.
21 posted on 09/20/2024 4:41:30 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: mmichaels1970
A guy who is so obviously over 21, that it would take a stupid mandated law, that allows zero room for common sense, to prevent him from purchasing alcohol or tobacco.

If the store has been busted for serving alcohol to minors, management may say card everyone. I've seen this at a couple of grocery stores I go to. I know the clerks, but that is the new policy.

22 posted on 09/20/2024 4:56:30 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: EVO X
management may say card everyone.

Yes. And I support their right to do so and to refuse service to anyone. What I don’t support is a government MANDATE that denies you that use of common sense. And I believe, if I understand the issue correctly, that PA has such a mandate.
23 posted on 09/20/2024 5:00:50 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: riverrunner

The ones in control. I’m 70 and look every day of it, yet I get carded at Costco and other locations when making liquor purchases. My eldest daughter, the same when she goes into the pot shops to get products she uses. It’s a blue state. No brains.


24 posted on 09/20/2024 5:01:44 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: mmichaels1970

Yeah; that’s the ticket!


25 posted on 09/20/2024 5:24:54 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the convicted felon with the pierced ear. )
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To: Erik Latranyi

Exactly


26 posted on 09/20/2024 5:27:18 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: mmichaels1970

The Beer Rule is definitely idiotic, but they are selling 6-packs in grocery stores now (and yep, you’re gonna be carded)

.... In Defense ...
Santa was a drunk, skinny, sketchy-looking guy they grabbed from somewhere in or under the stands when the real guy didn’t show up.

& What accent??

Yo!, now I need a drink of “wooder”, youse guys (LOL)


27 posted on 09/20/2024 6:01:13 AM PDT by twyn1 (“An evil man will burn his own country to the ground to rule over the ashes”)
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To: alexander_busek
Shapiro is a scumbag and apparently a pampered prince that must be chauffeured everywhere. Why wouldn’t he have a ID a in his wallet like a regular Joe.? An out of touch elitist.

Reminds me John Kerry’s “ Can I get me a hunting license here “ from 2004.

28 posted on 09/20/2024 6:28:18 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: blueplum
The liquor laws in his state are RACIST!

Pennsylvania is obviously denying minorities the ability to purchase alcohol, being that they require a PHOTO ID.

29 posted on 09/20/2024 6:29:26 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (7,525,799 Truth | 87,979,589 Twitter)
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To: blueplum

Surprised he didn’t go to delaware or maryland or new york like everyone else. oops.


30 posted on 09/20/2024 6:52:21 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (H)
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To: mmichaels1970

“What I don’t support is a government MANDATE that denies you that use of common sense.”

What I don’t support is the government turning minimum wage store clerks into law enforcement. Make it illegal to BUY alcohol if you’re under age; don’t put the burden on business to have to worry about it. Quick story: my sister, a career waitress, got baited by alcohol police. Two people sit at a table during very busy time. One orders alcohol, one does not. My sister cards the one. Later, while she’s running around like a chicken with her head cut off, the other person orders alcohol. She forgot she did not previously card that person. They did not arrest her (which they could have), but scared the crap out of her totally unnecessarily. That’s ridiculous. And don’t get me started on turning businesses into tax collectors.


31 posted on 09/20/2024 7:54:15 AM PDT by suthener ( )
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To: mmichaels1970

I’ve seen an uptick with clerks scanning DL’s. I suspect the stores are data harvesting and selling customer info..


32 posted on 09/20/2024 8:13:15 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: twyn1

It is not just that you need to be carded, but the transaction must take place at a special cash register.

It is not like you can go to the grocery store, pick-up everything you need for dinner plus a bottle of wine and go to the cashier.

No.

The groceries get scanned at one register, then you need to go to another register to pay for the wine.

It is ridiculous and why everything bureaucrats touch turns to feces.


33 posted on 09/20/2024 8:18:27 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Yep — I know — I live in PA.

And half the time, the person who has to take care of the “booze” register is also stocking shelves and helping out in the deli area, so you have to track them down in order to pay.


34 posted on 09/20/2024 9:37:26 AM PDT by twyn1 (“An evil man will burn his own country to the ground to rule over the ashes”)
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To: EVO X

this happened to my 70yo better half = not just carded, but scanned the DL into their computer. We asked a local popo friend if that was legal - yup - California idiots made the rule, the same idiots that championed ‘real id’ rule. Who knows how that impacts the security of ‘real id’.


35 posted on 09/20/2024 5:07:42 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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