New Campaign Aims To Keep Plano Liquor Free

A vote will be held Saturday to allow liquor stores in Plano.

Supposedly, $500,000 is at stake in annual sales tax revenue.

Well a campaign complete with a website and even a billboard have surfaced called “Save Plano” Allegedly, 150 liquor stores are set to move into the area, a number Save Plano spokesman Billy Horton informed News 8 he calculated by focusing on Plano’s population and available retail space.

“The bottom line is, the population of Plano can only sustain so many stores,” said John Hatch, a spokesman for the pro-liquor group, Citizens for Economic Equality. “How they can come up with 150 — when that would be twice as many as Fort Worth — is just ludicrous.”

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