'Threatening' shutdown tactics turn everyday business owners into outlaws
Posted on AllSides May 11th, 2020
From The Right
Joseph Tahanian’s Wine Cave is an “essential” business as far as he’s concerned, and that is why he vowed to reopen in defiance of California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus shutdown orders.
Then the state lowered the boom on Mr. Tahanian’s popular wine bar in Modesto.
“I got a call, kind of threatening, from some authorities — I don’t want to say exactly which ones — saying I had better not open,” Mr. Tahanian said. “And then I heard from the alcohol beverage control board that they would take away my...
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