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SAN FRANCISCO, September 22, 2008 (LifeSitNews.com) - Last year, after horrified Americans bombarded the beer company with complaints, decision makers at the Miller Brewing Company chose to pull the company logo from an offensive advertisement for the Folsom Street Fair, an event which includes full nudity and public sadomasochistic sex acts.  Miller, however, has now flip-flopped on their decision and is once again endorsing the homosexual event, having paid for a full-page advertisement in the 2008 Folsom Street Fair Program Guide.The brewers landed themselves in hot water last Fall after their logo appeared on the highly controversial front page of the...

A year ago, Coors Brewing - before its new joint venture with Miller Brewing - unveiled the creation of tiny AC Golden Brewing Co. The upstart brewery would operate as a stand- alone brewer, with its own budget. The aim: Brew small-batch, handcrafted beers that would mimic the success of the parent company's popular Blue Moon Belgian White, a craft-style wheat ale. Fast-forward one year. The clock was nearing 7 on a recent Wednesday morning at the MillerCoors brewery here. Two brewers were preparing to make the fourth batch - roughly 30 barrels - of AC Golden's debut brew: Herman...

Political conventions are known for a certain conviviality which often spills into the local watering holes when all the floor speeches are finished. But this is taking beer-power to a whole new level: Our colleagues at The Stew report that the official General Motors vehicles at the Democratic National Convention - the ones shuttling delegates, candidates and the rest from place to place - will not only be running on flex-fuel, but also will get their ethanol from a uniquely Coloradan source: The Molson Coors Brewing Company.

The makers of Coors and Miller plan to combine their U.S. brewing operations in an effort to compete better against industry-leader Anheuser-Busch. ADVERTISEMENT The joint venture announced Tuesday will be known as MillerCoors and will have responsibility for selling brands like Miller Lite and Coors Light in the U.S. Anheuser-Busch Cos. accounts for about half of the U.S. market with brands such as Budweiser and Bud Light. SABMiller PLC will have a 58 percent economic interest in the venture and MolsonCoors Brewing Co. will own 42 percent of the new company. They will have equal voting interests, however. Precise financial...

SABMiller Plc (SBMRY) and Molson Coors Brewing Co. (TAP) agreed to form a joint venture which will combine their U.S. and Puerto Rico operations. The companies said the new MillerCoors entity will have combined revenue of $6.6 billion and is expected to generate annual cost synergies of about $500 million starting by the combined operations' third full financial year.

Coors Brewing Company Announces Multicultural Marketing Plans 2007 Brings Strategic Shifts for African American and Hispanic Markets April 4, 2007 -- (Golden, Colo.) - The African American and U.S. Hispanic populations are growing at a faster rate than the general market, making multicultural consumers increasingly important for most packaged products companies. Coors Brewing Company is rolling out its 2007 multicultural marketing strategy which builds on positioning Coors Light® as the beer as cold and refreshing as the Rocky Mountains. As part of the strategic shift to enhance the focus on multicultural markets, Mauricio Cardenas, chief officer, Latin America and U.S....

See for example this thread first. A news item sure to cause snores-- A DUI plea for Pete Coors! And this was his fate BAC oh-eight-eight Why won't they chase Kenn'dy (those whores!) ?

DENVER (AP) - Beer baron Peter Coors' driver's license has been revoked by a hearing officer who ruled the executive had been driving under the influence of alcohol, officials said. Hearing officer Scott Garber ruled Friday that Coors did not stop at a stop sign on May 28 and was driving intoxicated.

Beer magnate and former Republican U.S. Senate candidate Pete Coors was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and is due to appear in court on the charges next Thursday. A Colorado State Patrol trooper pulled Coors over after he saw him run a stop sign around the corner from his home in Golden about 11:25 p.m. on May 28. Coors stopped in his driveway and consented to take a Breathalyzer test. He registered a .088, which is slightly above the .08 legal blood-alcohol limit in Colorado. He was driving a 2004 green Jaguar, court records show. Coors spokeswoman...

Well, it's become quite apparent that U.S. Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO) is quickly making a name for himself among the ranks of the slandering, sensationalizing far left. Since I live in Colorado, covered the primaries and election that put Salazar into office, and know some of the principals personally, I thought my take might shed some light onto the underpinnings of this bizarre phenomenon. First, on April 25, 2005, Senator Ken Salazar (affectionately known as "Gollum" by Colorado conservatives) commented that Focus on the Family (FOTF), the organization founded by Dr. James Dobson, has relentlessly and unfairly attacked him. In...

DENVER (AP) - Ross Hopkins still likes to drink Bud, even though he says a brief tryst with a Coors beer cost him his job at a Budweiser distributor. Hopkins, 41, is suing American Eagle Distributing Co., saying the company wrongly fired him for drinking Coors in a bar two years ago. "They flat-out told me: 'We're putting food on your table so you could put it on theirs?"' he said Tuesday. "I thought I could drink it, no problem." Hopkins' lawsuit, filed in a Greeley, Colo., court, seeks unspecified damages for lost wages and benefits. No trial date has...

Milliken - A sip of Coors apparently cost a loyal Bud man his job - and now he wants to tell his tale in court. Ross Hopkins, 41, says he was fired as a supervisor at American Eagle Distributing Co. - a Budweiser distributor - after he was seen by the son-in- law of the company president with a bottle of Coors at a Greeley bar. Hopkins says he doesn't even like Coors that much and took a pull only because it was offered to him during $1 beer night.

Colo. Democrats Eye Second Senate Seat U.S. National - AP By STEVEN K. PAULSON, Associated Press Writer DENVER - After bucking a national trend toward the political right in the last election with wins in the state Capitol and the congressional delegation, emboldened Colorado Democrats are seeking to expand on their gains. Democrats are convinced Republicans have lost their way in Colorado, said Chris Gates, who was state Democratic Party chairman during the November election. "There is definitely a significant shift going on in Colorado, and I think Colorado is a beachhead for the Democratic Party in the Rocky Mountain...

Molson Inc. shares shot to their highest level in more than a year Friday after the brewer said it Adolph Coors Co. had sweetened the pot in their planned merger, winning the support of key investors. The move comes with shareholders scheduled to decide on the proposed $8-billion merger between Molson and Golden, Colo.-based Coors next Wednesday.

Why Republicans held the state for Bush and lost everything else on the ballot.RED-STATE JOHNNIE HAS THE BLUES. Times are hard for Colorado Republicans, these days. Yes, we again carried Colorado for President Bush. With a GOP voter-registration edge of 186,000, we darn well should have. But that was all we did. Down-ballot, this was the ugliest election for Colorado Republicans that I've experienced in my 30 years in politics. And as president of Colorado's state Senate, I saw the devastation up-close.While Republicans were winning U.S. Senate races from Florida to Alaska, netting a four-seat gain, Colorado lost a seat...

According to the Human Rights Campaign, the Coors Corporation is one of their largest corporate sponsors........and guess what...they gave money and their endorsement to Ken Salazar....Pete Coors, an idiot who deserved to lose!

Coors Light, in association with USA Pro Wrestling promoter Frank Goodman will hold "The Legends and Icons Series" on Friday 1/21/05 in Hershey, PA at the Giant Center and Saturday 1/22/05 at the Toyota Center in York, PA The talent scheduled for the weekend is a virtual calvacade of names including Mick Foley, Vader, Sid Vicious, Al Snow, Terry Funk, Dusty Rhodes, Jerry Lawler, the tag team reunion of Rick & Scott Steiner, Roddy Piper doing a Piper's Pit segment, Diamond Dallas Page, Dustin Rhodes, Raven, D'Lo Brown, Justin Credible, Perry Saturn, Kamala, Bam Bam Bigelow, Koko B. Ware, Norman...

When Democratic state chairmen gather in Florida next month to lick their wounds from the Nov. 2 election, their agenda will include a careful study of one bright spot in a generally sorry performance: Colorado, a solidly red state that went almost completely blue this year. Despite a large Republican advantage in registered voters and the popularity of President Bush, who carried the state easily for the second time, Colorado Democrats picked up a U.S. Senate seat and House seat that had been considered safe for the GOP. They reversed Republican majorities in the state House and Senate to take...

DENVER - On the campaign trail, Democrat Ken Salazar criticized President Bush, Iraq and the war on terrorism. But the soft-spoken moderate spent just as much time talking about family, faith and the spirituality of his home in Colorado's San Luis Valley.     "In talking to my mother, she always blesses me and tells me how much it is that she loves me," Salazar said, before paying homage to the love of community and hard work taught to him by his parents. "Those are the values that I will stand for."     The cowboy hat-wearing Colorado attorney general...

Despite my strong support for Keyes, arguably the most eloquent spokesman on social issues, I as a conservative was disenfranchised (and so were many other Illinois Republicans) when my selection for the party nominee in the March primary was not permitted to replace Jack Ryan on the ticket. Indeed, as runner up to Mr. Ryan out of 8 candidates, Jim Oberweis should have been the rightful heir as the GOP nominee to replace Senator Fitzgerald. Would Mr. Oberweis have defeated Mr. Obama last week had he been on the GOP slot instead of Mr. Keyes? It's hard to say but...

Ken Salazar's campaign plan put him in position to overcome a GOP voter-registration edge and beat out Republican Pete Coors for Colorado's U.S. Senate seat. Coors, a political neophyte, entwined himself with the policies and rhetoric of President Bush, stressing tax cuts, a strong national defense and "conservative Colorado family values." Salazar, the state attorney general, shunned most associations with John Kerry yet echoed his populist message, vowing to help the working class and rural communities. "Coors needs Bush to win really big so he can ride on his coattails, and Salazar needs to look independent so he isn't pegged...

Ken Salazar elected to the Senate from Colorado, giving Democrats rare win Paola Farer (Web Producer) Created: 11/2/2004 5:54 PM MST - Updated: 11/2/2004 11:35 PM MST DENVER - While votes are still being counted, The Associated Press is calling Democrat Ken Salazar the winner in the U.S. Senate race. NBC is also reporting that Salazar has won. Voters appear to have opted for the moderate state attorney general over Republican beer baron Pete Coors, who was making his first bid for political office. Salazar would become the first Hispanic U.S. senator in more than a quarter century. "You have...

Coors down by ~30K votes. That's a D pickup, darnit.

2433 of 3086 precincts - 79 percent   Ken Salazar Dem 808,222 - 50 percent   Pete Coors Rep 777,452 - 48 percent   Douglas Campbell AmC 14,276 - 1 percent   Richard Randall Lib 7,425 - 0 percent   John Harris Ind 6,314 - 0 percent   Victor Good RP 4,864 - 0 percent   Finn Gotaas Una 1,295 - 0 percent

Pete Coors 651,152 48.82 Ken Salazar 654,780 49.09

Put info and links about Colorado here.

With less than twenty-four hours until the voters go to the polls, I’m now ready to make my calls on the Senate races, given what I have learned this morning. You can check realclearpolitics as the day progresses for more polling data. Illinois: This was the one that got away from us. Perhaps it would have been better if we had kept Senator Fitzgerald, but that’s hindsight. Obama has run a smart primary and general election campaign. Oklahoma: All the polls are moving in Coburn’s direction. I would have appreciated it if Coburn had been a little more careful this...

Senate Analysis 2004 – 11/1/04 Final Senate Race Predictions Over the past several months, I've followed the Senate races closely, noting every poll and watching every trend. I've made predictions and then rescinded them. I've made mistakes and occasionally shown some insight (odds are out as to which I've done more, though). As the election nears – just tomorrow, in fact, it's time for my final predictions. So, here they are. Not only am I predicting the winner of each race, I'm predicting the margin of victory – closer races have vote tally predictions, too – just to give me...

Attorney General Ken Salazar has reclaimed a lead over beer magnate Pete Coors in Colorado's hotly contested battle for the U.S. Senate. In the final Rocky Mountain News/News 4 poll before Election Day, 48 percent said they would vote for Salazar, the Democrat, while 42 percent said they would choose the Republican, Coors. Those numbers, produced in polling Monday through Wednesday by Public Opinion Strategies, show a reversal from that firm's survey conducted Oct. 13 though 15, which gave Coors a 45-40 edge. A mid-September poll on the race by the same pollster had shown Salazar with a lead of...

(If that link doesn't work or changes goto www.9news.com and search for this story) I-Team: wife of state representative caught taking down political signs written by: Paula Woodward (9Wants to Know Reporter) --- COLORADO SPRNIGS - There have been countless reports of sign stealing during this election campaign from both Republicans and Democrats. A private investigator hired to track down the person responsible for taking Republican campaign signs in one Colorado Springs neighborhood caught the culprit on tape and made a surprising discovery. The woman caught taking down Bush/Cheney and Pete Coors signs turned out the be the wife of...

Saturday: The President gave his weekly radio address and campaigned in four Florida locations. Pictures from Melbourne, FL rally. Remarks by the President at Victory 2004 Rally (plus photos from this weekends rally) [New Mexico]. Sunday: Rudy Giuliani and his wife Judith Nathan stayed with the Bushes in Waco. They campaigned in New Mexico. Monday: Bush campaigned in Colorado. Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island.

Kerry, Salazar to campaign together in Pueblo Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is planning his sixth visit to Colorado, this time to hold a rally in Pueblo on Saturday with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Ken Salazar. It will be the first appearance together for Kerry and Salazar. The failure of the two to campaign together has been questioned by Republicans. Political experts say Salazar has been better off going it alone in a state where Republicans and unaffiliated voters each outnumber Democrats. President Bush has campaigned several times with Salazar's Republican rival, Pete Coors, and held a fundraiser. Salazar's spokesman,...

President Bush has a 6-point lead over Democratic Sen. John Kerry in a statewide survey of voters this week byThe Pueblo Chieftain, but Kerry has cut the president's lead in half when compared to the newspaper's poll a month ago. In the U.S. Senate race, Democrat Ken Salazar held a 4-percent lead over Republican brewer Pete Coors - but with a 4-point margin of error in the survey, both the presidential and Senate race could be even closer than indicated. The survey of 600 registered voters was conducted by Ciruli Associates of Denver between Oct. 15-19. Among those polled, 38...

DENVER (AP) - Polls show Republican Pete Coors has pulled even with or even slightly ahead of Democrat Ken Salazar, but the closely watched race for Colorado's open Senate seat is still a tight one. A poll published Tuesday by the Rocky Mountain News shows Coors leading Salazar 45 percent to 40 percent. The lead equals the poll's 5 percentage point margin of error, meaning Coors is slightly ahead.

Posted on Mon, Oct. 18, 2004 Poll: Senate Hopefuls Nearly Tied in Colo. Associated Press DENVER - The closely watched race for Colorado's open Senate seat is a virtual tie between Republican Peter Coors and Democrat Ken Salazar, according to a poll released Monday. The USA Today-CNN-Gallup poll of 666 likely voters conducted Friday through Sunday found that 49 percent support Salazar and 48 percent back Coors. Three percent had no opinion or chose other. The margin of error was 4 percentage points. A similar poll by Gallup taken Oct. 3-6 had given Salazar a huge edge, 54 percent to...

Alaska : Murkowski loses -1 Colorado : Coors loses -1 Florida : Martinez wins +1 Georgia Isakson wins +1 Illinois Obama wins -1 Louisiana Vitter wins +1 N.C. Bowles loses +1 Oklahoma Carson wins -1 S.C. Demint wins +1 S.D. Daschle wins -0- Kentucky Bunning wins -0-

The Majority Fund for America's Future was created to support the Republican Senate Majority. Its goal is to make sure President Bush has the votes he needs in the Senate to cut taxes, confirm his judicial nominees, strengthen our homeland and fight the war on terrorism. We have identified the following Senate candidates as having the best chances for victory. John Thune (SD): John Thune is running in South Dakota against Tom Daschle. Recent polling indicates John Thune is closing in on victory.   Sen. Lisa Murkowski (AK): Senator Murkowski is in a tight race in Alaska against Tony Knowles....

Not exactly a huge surprise, seeing as how they endorsed 4 out of 5 democrats for the US House and 1 of 2 for US Senate. They did endorse Beauprez for Senate (since he's an incumbent and will win anyways - I guess they could go out on the limb). But not exactly a glowing one: "We doubt Bob Beauprez can survive for long by casting extremist votes, but we like his performance enouch to recommend him for a second term over Democrat Dave Thomas." Nice back-handed complement there. I would've posted the long endorsement of Salazar, but I have...

-- Republicans Likely to Pick Up Senate Seats by John Gizzi Posted Oct 15, 2004 With two weeks to go before voters go to the polls in 34 states to choose U.S. senators, prospects are good the Republicans will make a net gain of 3 seats. Such a gain would increase their Senate majority from the current 51 to 49 (when Independent Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont is counted with the Democrats) to 54 to 46. The Republicans appear poised to pick up seats in five states where Democratic incumbents are retiring--Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina and South Carolina But...

WASHINGTON - Put down your accordions and man your battle stations. For at least a split second Sunday, the home state of Lawrence Welk was declared part of the "axis of evil." Senate hopeful Pete Coors had a slip of the tongue for the ages on NBC News' Meet the Press. Moderator Tim Russert asked Coors, a Republican, about Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction. "Clearly, we should be more worried today, actually, about Iran and North Dakota than we are - North Korea - than we are about Iraq, based on weapons of mass destruction," Coors said. Coors, a...

Why Colorado on 9-21? This was the first time the GOP tried out its new 72-hour get-out-the-vote program. In the GOP primary, Peter Coors faced Bob Schaffer; in the Democratic primary, Ken Salazar faced Mike Miles. This was a competitive primary for both parties, and it was a primary for an open senate seat both parties coveted and thought (and continue to think) they can win. Both primary races were roughly competitive. Neither race was close. Salazar took 73% of the Democrat vote, Coors took 60%. Thus, we would expect both sides to participate equally enthusiastically.

Ken Salazar for U.S. Senate A proven record of service October 9, 2004 We have 18 reasons for supporting Ken Salazar's quest to become Colorado's next U.S. senator. They are the 18 years he's been in public service in this state. During that time - first as legal adviser to Gov. Roy Romer, then as head of the Department of Natural Resources and finally as attorney general - Salazar has consistently displayed the sort of pragmatic, sensible judgment that will serve him well in the nation's capital. Salazar is a Democrat, yet over the past two decades he's worked with...

SurveyUSA Colorado: Bush 52%, Kerry 44%; Coors 48%, Salazar 48% Amendment 36, the initiatve to split the electoral college vote for Colorado is tied - Yes 45%, No 44%. SurveyUSA says that Amendment 36 is heavily supported by Democrats, so it is highly unlikely that 36 will pass unless Kerry wins Colorado. The irony of ironies.

President Bush leads Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry in Colorado with the support of 50 percent of the state's likely voters to Kerry's 41 percent, according to a new Denver Post poll. The poll of 630 randomly selected voters, conducted by telephone Monday through Wednesday, shows that 7 percent of Colorado's voters are still unsure how they'll vote Nov. 2... Bush: 51% fav. opinion, 40% unfav.Kerry: 36% fav., 47% unfav.

WASHINGTON -- While it would take a Kerry victory of enormous proportions to cause the House of Representatives to restore Democratic control, the Senate is a far different matter. There are enough Senate seats at play that if Democrats get all the breaks, they could well end up controlling that body again. Some years one party or the other gets almost all of the breaks. That is why, although political analyst Stu Rothenberg says the Republicans still have a slight edge, it is simply impossible to say that Democratic control is out of the question. In fact, it is very...

Democrats slowly behind GUEST OPINION By JOHN BRUMMETT October 1, 2004 While the rest of you have stewed over the presidential race, I've looked into whether the Democrats might take back the U.S. Senate or the Republicans might increase their lead to something so formidable as to be nearly immune to filibuster and veto. The answer is yes. The Democrats might. The Republicans might. It's that fluid, that wild. And it might be more important to the course of public policy than the presidential outcome. Here are the numbers: The Republicans control the Senate by 51-48-1. If the Democrats could...

I was just polled in the last 2 - 3 minutes by a Democrate push poll in CO...

Vice President Dick Cheney told supporters in Denver after Thursday night's presidential debate that it has never been more clear who should be making life-and-death decisions on national security. The president "is absolutely committed to taking offensive action whenever it's necessary in order to defend the United States of America," Cheney said, in contrast with Kerry's support for pre-emptive action "as long as it passed some kind of global test." "We will never seek a permission slip to defend the United States of America," Cheney added, to the cheers of a few hundred invited guests - many of them campaign...

Wednesday, September 29, 2004 End game Posted: September 29, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Hugh Hewitt © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com With 34 days left before the election, the campaigns for the United States Senate around the country are making their final ad buys and preparing for their last mail drops. The GOP stands in pretty good shape, but needs a strong close in nine states to make a huge difference in the United States Supreme Court battles of next summer. If John Thune, Richard Burr, Pete Coors, Tom Coburn, Bill Jones, George Nethercutt, Mel Martinez and Jim DeMint join Lisa Murkowski in the...

The new Survey USA poll out today shows that Republican Coors leads Democrat Salazar 51%-46% amongst likely voters in Colorado ...