The PI.com had a frutiful Q&A with Gov. Chris Gregoire last week. Here's another startling footnote: She's open to liquor privatization.

Gregoire was, in my opinion, the most eloquent spokesperson against the set of privatization initiative earlier this year, boasting about Washington State's top-ranking enforcement numbers (a 94 percent no-sales to minors rating vs. 80 percent in states where booze is available in grocery stores and markets).

Nonetheless, here she is in the PI .

Gov. Chris Gregoire says she she'd consider getting Washington state out of the liquor retail business - but first she wants a better sense of how people feel about privatized booze sales.

"I told the liquor board, I wanted them to do a poll for me and bring me the results. Try and figure out, what were voters saying?... Did they say, 'I don't want a liquor store on every corner of the state of Washington, but I'd really like more convenience at my local Safeway store?'"