Booze Sales to the Rescue! Ohio Bond Deal Touts Job Creation

Booze Sales to the Rescue! Ohio Bond Deal Touts Job Creation
FILE -In this Monday, Nov. 19, 2012, file photo, cocktails are photographed in San Francisco. Airlines have found a way to take the edge off the stress of flying and make a few extra bucks along the way: fancy new cocktails, craft beers and elegant wines.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
FILE -In this Monday, Nov. 19, 2012, file photo, cocktails are photographed in San Francisco. Airlines have found a way to take the edge off the stress of flying and make a few extra bucks along the way: fancy new cocktails, craft beers and elegant wines.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Just as Ohio officials were preparing to issue about $1.5 billion of bonds backed by sales from liquor, the state Supreme Court announced that it would review a challenge questioning the legality of the entire funding plan.

The announcement came on yesterday, the same day the state began pricing the tax-exempt and taxable bonds. The deal, the brainchild of Gov. John Kasich, has been a long time in the making. One of the governor’s goals after coming into office in 2010 was to create more jobs in the state. Plans evolved to entail creating a private company that would eventually be funded by the state’s lucrative liquor sales. Eventually, the company that would issue the bonds, JobsOhio Beverage System, came to fruition.

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