The campaign to defeat Costco's Initiative 1183, which would end the state's control of liquor wholesaling and retailing, just released this teetotaling, booze-is-dangerous, think-of-the-children ad:

The campaign website goes on to declare that this measure is "just another attempt to profit at the expense of our public safety, kids and communities."

It may occur to you that these anti-liquor talking points—and and the claim that this is about the other side's profits—seem very weird when you consider that 96 percent of the campaign running this ad is funded by the liquor industry. Plain and simple, the liquor industry doesn't want to lose its wholesaling partnership with the state; that's the issue. Not the safety, not the kids.