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Wine measure makes ballot
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The main opponent to the wine in grocery stores measure is liquor stores.
The question of wine in grocery stores will be on the McMinnville city ballot in November alongside the proposition for legal package liquor.According to election administrator Donna Smith, proponents of the initiative were able to get the required number of signatures to get the question on the ballot. Only McMinnville city voters were allowed to sign the petition and only city voters will get to vote on the measure during the municipal election this November.“Looking at the addresses on the petition, it appears someone was out canvassing and going door to door to get the signatures,” Smith said of the petition drive.The measure failed to make the ballot two years ago when many cities around the state ratified wine in grocery stores. The state only recently passed a law that allows such sales.