More carefully than most, he has parsed the rhetoric of the initiatives and has come out in favor of 1100, opposed to 1105. Initiative 1100,l he says, "will benefit wineries, breweries, restaurants, retailers, small distributors, and, most importantly, wine consumers," while "1105 replaces the existing state monopoly on spirits with a middleman distributor monopoly." Worse, he points out that 1105 "eliminates the alcohol tax at great cost to the state, and does nothing for wineries or wine consumers."