**Alert** Costco’s 1183 “Sails Through”

**Alert**November 9, 2011Costco's 1183 "Sails Through" Dear Client: They couldn't do it in the courts. They couldn't do it in the legislature. But $40 million and ten years later, they've done it with a ballot initiative.The Costco-bankrolled Initiative 1183 privatizing alcohol sales in Washington State "sailed through" this morning with nearly 60 percent of votes, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. It was the big box club store's second attempt to privatize, and this time around they spent some $22 million