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Massachusetts mayor boycotts Sam Adams after cofounder thanked Trump for tax cuts
The Hill ^ | 08/14/18 | Aris Folley

Posted on 08/14/2018 10:22:14 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

Joseph Curtatone, the mayor of Somerville, Mass., said Sunday that he will never drink Sam Adams beer again after the cofounder of the Boston brewery thanked President Trump for a corporate tax cut.

“I will never drink Sam Adam's beer again!” the Massachusetts Democrat said on Twitter.

Curtatone linked to an article published by the Boston Business Journal that detailed a dinner where Jim Koch, who co-founded Boston Beer, thanked the president for the GOP-authored tax cut that he said would help his company compete against foreign brewers.

In another tweet posted on Sunday evening, Curtatone made a direct message to Koch.

According to the Business Journal, Koch was one of 13 corporate executives who dined with the president at his golf resort in New Jersey on Tuesday.

Koch reportedly claimed during the dinner that the president’s tax reform measure “was a very big deal” for his company, while noting that “85 percent of the beer made in the United States is owned by foreign companies.”

“I mean, Americans — I’m the largest American-owned brewery at 2 percent market share. We were paying 38-percent taxes … and competing against people who were paying 20. And now we have a level playing field, and we’re going to kick their ass,” Koch said at the dinner.

“Wow. But you’ve done a great job,” Trump reportedly said. “Great job.”


TOPICS: Canada; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: boycott; canada; incometaxes; josephcurtatone; massachusetts; mexico; nafta; newjersey; samadams; somerville; taxcutsandjobsact; taxreform; tcja
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To: yesthatjallen

This is a tactic that marginalizes any one who has a positive or neutral experience with conservatives.

It is similar to the bullying tactic that children use against the targeted peer where anything about the peer is considered poison and the target is hectored and attacked.

The best defense?

Laugh at him and buy lots a Beer.

Call a press conference to laugh and buy beer.


41 posted on 08/14/2018 11:38:35 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: left that other site

I’ll forward this to my son who’s stopping in Boston for a day next month when he goes on his Maine vacation. I’m sure they’ll enjoy it.


42 posted on 08/14/2018 11:39:18 AM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: FrdmLvr
Maine is great too! :-)

Glad I could be of service.


43 posted on 08/14/2018 11:42:17 AM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: Bob434

can you imagine the outrage if companies banned people for voicing their support for obama?


This is what I wrote yesterday. We on the right talk about the abject outright provable hypocrisy but since we are as in chains in the hold of a slave ship, nothing is ever done. The media act as though these daily hypocrisies do not exist.


44 posted on 08/14/2018 11:47:41 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Myrddin

You might be able to have hard cider.


45 posted on 08/14/2018 11:50:07 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: yesthatjallen


46 posted on 08/14/2018 11:52:37 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats. - P.J. ORourke)
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To: yesthatjallen
Hey Joe, just continue with your favorite drink:Kool-Aid.
47 posted on 08/14/2018 11:56:27 AM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: Myrddin

On a restaurant menu recently I saw a gluten-free beer listed. Don’t remember the name.


48 posted on 08/14/2018 11:59:09 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Myrddin

https://www.bonappetit.com/drinks/beer/slideshow/10-gluten-free-beers-that-actually-taste-good


49 posted on 08/14/2018 12:11:59 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Well then I’ll have one every so often to counter the idiot.


50 posted on 08/14/2018 12:17:12 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: left that other site; yesthatjallen

I concur, and might I suggest that the Sam Adams brewery is among the TOP tourist spots in the Boston Area (kinda like the Guinness factory in Dublin Ir).

Around here, that major won’t put one dent in the sales; it’s the brew of choice throughout New England.

I bet a six pack that Major will be downing a Sammy before the end of the first Pat’s game. or the last our of the ALCS


51 posted on 08/14/2018 12:38:37 PM PDT by jimjohn (2nd American Civil War: ongoing since January 20, 2017.)
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To: rktman
Mas cervases.

Por lo general, compro "Corona" pero sustituiré una caja de "Sam Adams" por esta ocasión especial.

52 posted on 08/14/2018 12:45:05 PM PDT by Ken Regis
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To: Ken Regis
Well, I'm kinda thinkin' everyday since PDJT won has been an "ocasion especial". Comprende? 🍻🍻🍻👍🏼🇺🇸
53 posted on 08/14/2018 1:04:25 PM PDT by rktman (Enlis ted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman
HEUSG

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Es decir:
Haciendo que Estados Unidos sea grandioso

54 posted on 08/14/2018 1:27:39 PM PDT by Ken Regis
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To: Vlad The Inhaler
I'm looking at the honerable Mayor's picture and I'm reminded of this:

YouTube Video

55 posted on 08/14/2018 1:31:17 PM PDT by Ken Regis
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To: yesthatjallen

My guess is that most beer drinkers don’t give a hoot who is whining.


56 posted on 08/14/2018 2:15:29 PM PDT by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: yesthatjallen
Sam Adams Octoberfest starts selling in August.
Nice I will get some of that.
57 posted on 08/14/2018 2:26:01 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: jimjohn

I think I will go back for another visit! :-)


58 posted on 08/14/2018 2:30:16 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: nutmeg
Unbelievable!

When you've lived here as long as I have stuff like this becomes all-too-believable.

59 posted on 08/14/2018 3:10:43 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: yesthatjallen

I’m sorry, but you lost. As some moron said, ‘Elections has Consequences.’, so now shut up and enjoy the economy, mayor...


60 posted on 08/14/2018 3:42:52 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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