Pete Coors: Attacked by Conservatives As Pro Gay and By Gays As Homophobic

[Cannikin]

(Colorado Springs, Colorado) Television ads aired this week claim Republican Senate candidate Peter Coors is "promoting homosexual causes", escalating the increasingly bitter primary battle between him and former Rep. Bob Schaffer.

The Coors campaign said the commercials amount to an illegal "soft money" contribution because the group sponsoring the ads has ties to the Schaffer campaign. Schaffer's campaign denied the charge, saying any formal links were broken last month.

Gay marriage and same-sex partner benefits have become an issue in the primary campaign as Coors and Schaffer battle for support from the GOP's conservative core.

As an executive of his family's brewing company, Coors backed benefits for gay workers and promoted beer in gay bars, while as a candidate he endorsed a constitutional ban on gay marriages. His support for the Federal Marriage Amendment led Coors Brewing to launch an ad campaign distancing itself from him. (story)

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[fujiyama]

1. Coors

Their beer tastes like ASS. I had that stuff (luckilly I didn't pay for it) the other day and it's terrible.

I hope Salazaar kicks his ass in Nov.

[Cerridwen]

2. Coors has a long history dating back to the Nazis: links added

they have frequently "co-opted" social issues to fill their own pockets.

I'll post links as soon as I can find a few.


Editing for links:
Coors, Nazis, racism, etc.

Joseph Coors founded the Heritage Foundation

The book The Coors Connection by Russ Bellant does a great job of documenting the Coors company's history.

I've read articles more specific to coors expoiting social issues for profit. I'll post links should I find them soon.

Here's one about http://www.corporations.org/coors/lgb1.html">exploiting gays and a quote from the article " Jeffrey Coors is chairman of the board of the Free Congress Foundation--the group which, according to right wing-watcher Chip Berlet of Cambridge, Massachussetts-based Political Research Associates, "clearly created to a great extent this myth of a 'homosexual agenda.'" Free Congress' broadcast and cable TV network, National Empowerment Television, airs a monthly program featuring the Christian Coalition's Ralph Reed and another, ominously titled "Straight Talk," produced in association with the ultra-homophobic Family Research Council."

The article says "S.F. Bay Times has found clear evidence that the brewery's operations continue to finance the Coors family's radical right activism in a big way."

Okay, you get the idea. There is plenty more. Russ Bellant's books are the best I've read. I met Russ many years ago; just after he'd published I think. Very serious, logical, articulate.

[the Kelly Gang]

4. get us those links..

I will not buy any product from rightwing ratbags..Coors is pretty piss weak beer

[Solly Mack]

3. doesn't matter what the company does.....matters what he would does

in congress

I don't work for coors..I do live in America

hypocrite would be an apt description for him