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People are spilling out the doorway and standing around outside in the foyer for the liquor license bill hearing in the House Judiciary Committee this afternoon. The bill, SB 1148, passed the Senate on March 26 on a 23-12 vote; a task force convened by Gov. Butch Otter has been working on the measure for two years, to do away with the state’s current population-based quota system for liquor licenses and revamp Idaho’s system. So many people are signed up to testify for or against the bill that the sign-up sheet goes on for four pages; House Judiciary Chairman Jim Clark, R-Hayden Lake, is calling the out-of-town people to testify, in anticipation that the hearing will go beyond today. After one witness told the committee that he thinks people in Ketchum will suffer economic loss because of the bill, Mike Weems of Bellevue spoke in favor of it. Weems, who has three licensed establishments and has been in the restaurant/bar business for 35 years, said, “We’re strongly in favor of 1148 and think it’s high time that something be done.” He told the committee, “No matter what you do, everyone’s not going to be happy.”
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