What beer can I buy now????

[El Supremo]

SENATOR TO THE SUDS

$3,000: Amount Miller Brewing, Anheuser Busch and Heineken contributed to Pete Coors' Senate run, even though they might be business rivals.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3041138,00.html

I gave up Coors when this Nazi Nut declared for office. Now I've got to boycott Bud, Miller and Heineken too? Hey, I thought that Miller was a union company. What gives?

Man, you should also read about all the insane pro/anti gay mud that is being slung by the company, Pete and his Repug opponent Bob Schaffer. Pete says that he is as much as a homophobe as Bob. Bob says that Pete is a gay lover because his company gives benefits to same sex couples. The company says that Pete is not their spokesman. What a circus!

[seabeyond]

1. someone in colorado, show the soft porn coors commercial

they put on the football games saturday and sunday totally degrading women for little boys and girls to learn how to behave as they sit with their hard wooking all week long fathers in some down time. please please do not let this man win. NNNNNoooOOOOoooOOOOOoooo

[El Supremo]

12. Sex and drunkedness is turning out to be a big issue too.

But mainly because these two agree on most everything else. What a zoo!

[Citizen Daryl]

2. Belgian ale, baby. Belgian ale. n/t

[AntiCoup2K4]

16. As long as you read the label first!

Coors does make some psuedo-Belgian ales, after all. I believe the brand name is "Blue Moon".

You're better off going with....






Yeah, they aren't actually from Belgium either. But they beat the living shit out of anything Coors, Buttweiper, or Miller ever made or will ever make.

http://www.dicksbeer.com/index.html

[Bluzmann57]

3. Miller and Anhueser Busch are both Union breweries

What the corporate people do has nothing to do with the workforce. Many many companies have donated to candidates contrary to the Union's choice. Most corporations in fact. Support Union made products.

[StandUpGuy]

4. Learn how to make your own brew

Or smoke terrorist ganja grown in the heartland of America.

[IronLionZion]

5. buy local

but don't punish the workers just because the corporation donates to Republicans. Except Coors, they are a very evil organization from the top down.

[eyesroll]

6. Corporations can't contribute

These are either PACS run by the corporations, or people who work there. It's a big difference -- if someone who does Miller's IT support contributes $250 to Pete Coors, it's not a big deal. If the PAC gives him big bucks, it's a bigger deal (unless the PAC gave tons of money to lots of candidates -- then, it's more covering their bases than supporting one individual candidate).

Let's take Miller.

Here's a search of people from Miller Brewing who contributed at least $200 in the 2004 election cycle to federal candidates or PACs. It seems that there were Dean and EMILY's list contributors, and many PAC contributions from the execs.

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?NumOfThou=0&txtName=&txtState=%28all+states%29&txtZip=&txtEmploy=Miller+Brewing&txtCand=&txt2004=Y&Order=N

Now, the PAC's disbursements are interesting -- more Repub than Dem, but not horrifyingly lopsided (and everyone in WI gets a piece):

http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.asp?strID=C00102780&Cycle=2004
e Candidate
Total Contribs

Bishop, Sanford D Jr (D-GA)
$500


Boehner, John (R-OH)
$2,500


Cantor, Eric (R-VA)
$1,000


DeLay, Tom (R-TX)
$4,500


Green, Mark (R-WI)
$1,000


Jefferson, William J (D-LA)
$1,000


Kind, Ron (D-WI)
$1,000


Kleczka, Jerry (D-WI)
$1,000


Obey, David R (D-WI)
$2,500


Pastor, Ed (D-AZ)
$500


Ryan, Paul (R-WI)
$1,000


Sensenbrenner, F James Jr (R-WI)
$500
Senate Candidate
Total Contribs

Burr, Richard (R-NC)
$2,000


Daschle, Tom (D-SD)
$1,000


Feingold, Russell D (D-WI)
$2,500


McConnell, Mitch (R-KY)
$1,000


Total to Democratic Senate Candidates:
$3,500

Total to Republican Senate Candidates:
$3,000

Hmm...there wasn't anything about Pete Coors on either list.
http://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary.asp?ID=COS1&Cycle=2004
Hmm...Coors hadn't filed a report as of July 9. I guess we'll have to wait for the updated data (due yesterday, should be uploaded in a few days) to find out for sure where these contributions are coming from.

[Dark]

7. Don't buy beer. Get the hard stuff. Liquor is quicker, after all!

Or just step up to the good stuff

:smoke:

[NYCGirl]

8. Canadian beer, eh?

[Rebellious Republican]

9. Samuel Adams - America's World-Class Beer, donated to Kerry!

You can't be much more of a Patriot than Sam Adams.....

Kerry clearly had the edge among the area's movers and shakers, with donations from Michael Dukakis, Staples chief executive officer Ronald Sargent, Boston Beer chairman Jim Koch and FleetBoston Financial Corp. CEO Charles Gifford. Dean's most well-known contributors were singer Carly Simon and actor James Belushi, but his contribution list was short on high-ranking officials and executives.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/11/05/dean_surpasses_kerry_in_raising_funds_in_the_bay_state/

[El Supremo]

13. By the time Sam Adams gets out here it is bitter.

Can't stand the stuff.

[Rebellious Republican]

15. Here ya go, check out this site it should help with your delima...

BeerAdvocate.com : Join the Beer Revolution!™
http://www.beeradvocate.com/

It really is a beer connoisseur website, happy hunting.

:beer:

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. Beer is meant to be bitter

that's why they add hops to it. You'll be complaining that coffee tastes bitter next ... ;-)

[HootieMcBoob]

10. Two suggestions

http://www.brooklynbrewery.com/home.asp

http://www.pittsburghbrewingco.com/content.php?area=3&page=1

:toast:

[NuttyFluffers]

11. now you have more of an excuse to drink good european beer

mighty fine conundrum i'd say.

"honey, i have to buy the premium import beer. if i don't the terraist win."

[Warren DeMontague]

14. Sierra Nevada.

Send your money to Cali, baby.

Damn fine beer, too.