Don't be a buzzkill: "Influential" Tavern League prefers slap on the wrist for first offender drunk drivers

Quoted inTougher penalties for first-time drunken drivers remain elusive.  (Wisconsin State Journal, 7/9/2017)

Apparently, there isn't the will to push back against the Wisconsin Tavern League.

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Alberta has more to say.

“We’ve been told most people want to focus on repeated drunken drivers so that’s where we have settled.  We’re finding the first-time offenders aren’t the big re-offenders if you look at where it is, it’s second (offense) and above.” 

A couple of things here.

You've been told by whom, Alberta? 

Furthermore, I'm pretty sure all of those repeat offenders were first-time offenders once upon a time.  (That second sentence is pure gibberish.)