Massachusetts mayor boycotts Sam Adams after cofounder thanked Trump for tax cuts

The Hill ^ | 08/14/18 | Aris Folley

[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.”

[Chickensoup]

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.

[FrdmLvr]

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.

[left that other site]

Maine is great too! :-)

Glad I could be of service.

[Yaelle]

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

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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.

[Yaelle]

You might be able to have hard cider.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

[Mark]

Hey Joe, just continue with your favorite drink:Kool-Aid.

[ladyjane]

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

[FrdmLvr]

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

[SkyDancer]

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

[jimjohn]

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

[Ken Regis]

Mas cervases.

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

[rktman]

Well, I'm kinda thinkin' everyday since PDJT won has been an "ocasion especial". Comprende? 🍻🍻🍻👍🏼🇺🇸

[Ken Regis]

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Es decir:
Haciendo que Estados Unidos sea grandioso

[Ken Regis]

I'm looking at the honerable Mayor's picture and I'm reminded of this:

YouTube Video

[arrogantsob]

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

[Steve Van Doorn]

Sam Adams Octoberfest starts selling in August.
Nice I will get some of that.

[left that other site]

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

[Gay State Conservative]

Unbelievable!

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

[Deplorable American1776]

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