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Republican Senate candidate, Eric Hovde, past comments trashing the industry that is a major part of his own states of Wisconsin's economy surface as his other questionable stances surge into spotlight. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report.

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GOP Senate Candidate Took Bold Stance Against the Sale of Alcohol … in Wisconsin

"Wisconsin is famous for its booze. The brands Miller, Schlitz, Pabst, and Blatz were all founded in Milwaukee, a city whose baseball team is the Brewers, and which is often called the “beer capital of the world.” Across the state, bars outnumber grocery stores roughly three-to-one, for a total of about eight pubs per every 10,000 people. To say alcohol is an important industry in Wisconsin is to undersell the fact: It accounts for more than 161,000 jobs that pay out roughly $3.2 billion in wages a year and generates $2.6 billion in tax revenue, according to the most recent figures available from the Wisconsin Tavern Association.

All of that is why it’s surprising to hear a political candidate vying to represent the state in the U.S. Senate say it was a bad idea to commercialize alcohol. In 2017, when he was considering another run for office, Republican Eric Hovde said that, if it were up to him, alcohol would only be available to people who brew or distill it themselves. Acknowledging that it would be difficult to wind back the commercialization of alcohol, Hovde went on to say: “The horse is out of the barn, and it’s going to be hard to put back.”"

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