Free Republic

An Anheuser-Busch (Bud Light) lobbyist is also a major bundler for Governor Ron DeSantis, POLITICO has revealed.Slater Bayliss, a former Jeb Bush “bundler” was even the third-largest bundler for the DeSantis campaign at one point during his Four Seasons donor meet the day of his campaign launch. Bayliss had raised at least $242,600 for DeSantis.Anheuser-Busch has seen $27bn wiped off its value since its endorsement from transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

Well, the decision to short Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (BUD) stock recently remains a winner. The stock recently broke through support, and while value buyers seem to be trying to step in here, the controversy surrounding this company has not slowed down. Perhaps memories will be short, and the conservative backlash over their marketing and branding deal with Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney may subside later this year. However, it seems like the damage right now is setting up to be permanent. Take a look at the comment sections on the articles covering this controversy. So many have said they are making...

Woke governance that has sent profits spiraling at companies like Anheuser-Busch and Target often begins with lefty investment firms pressuring them to push products their way, an ex-top Anheuser-Busch exec said. ... Anson Frericks said behind-the-scenes politicking from firms like New York-based BlackRock and Pennsylvania-based Vanguard spur many of the controversial decisions sparking nationwide boycotts from longtime more conservative customers — such as the ill-fated Bud Light promotion with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney He said BlackRock, Vanguard, and another firm, State Street, manage about $20 trillion in capital and use their clout to promote agenda politics being pushed on them...

As Target continues to endure backlash over its newly launched “Pride” line of clothing and merchandise for kids, the retail giant is not alone in carrying woke wares for children and teens. Similar items that have prompted some to call for the “Bud Light treatment” of Target can also be found at Walmart, Kohl’s, Macy’s, Old Navy, The Gap, Apple, and many more. North Face, a popular go-to for high-quality outdoor gear, has taken what some see as an especially deep dive into retail radicalism with its “Summer of Pride” campaign. Tracy Holmes, who lives in central Pennsylvania, told The...

Bud Light's parent company Anheuser-Busch has seen its market value plunge $15.7billion since the disastrous campaign with transgender-influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Since April 1, the company has consistently been dropping down the rankings, with experts saying it 'just keeps getting a little worse each week'. But their competitors have added $3.2billion in market value to their brands in the same time. Molson Coors, which owns Coors Lite, has seen an increase of $2.2billion market value, around 20 percent, while Heineken has a spike of $1billion – an increase of 1.7 percent. Sales of Bud Light are down more than 23 percent...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) announced his intentions to investigate Bud Light's relationship with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney Wednesday due to the impact it has on impressionable children. "I can't think of a company in modern times that has more alienated its customer base and seemed to have so little understanding of who it is that actually drinks Bud Light," Cruz told Fox News host Brian Kilmeade. "This week I sent a letter to the CEO of Anheuser-Busch, along with Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), because the CEO of Anheuser-Busch is also the CEO or the chairman of the Beer Institute, which...

ST LOUIS, MO — Anheuser-Busch, the company that makes Bud Light, has suffered weeks of stagnant sales following a simple marketing campaign celebrating breathtaking female woman Dylan Mulvaney, who is totally a woman. In response, Bud Light has worked tirelessly to revive its brand and appeal to loyal customers by adding mullets to every can. "These mullets prove just how well we know our customers," said Bud Light Marketing Director Stacey Mulberry-Saffron while explaining the strategic value of focus groups and social media surveys. "We're confident customers will return in droves for this refreshing can of business-in-the-front-and-party-in-the-back." Mulberry-Saffron added...

Warning: If you work for any major woke corporation, you’d better sit down for this. What all the corporations fear is the Bud Light boycott works. Suppose rational people decide they don’t want someone mocking women as the spokesperson of the product they use. Then, all dozen or so companies that already have deals with Mulvaney are at risk. And not just them, any company that foists woke garbage on its customers suddenly might face the music or simply face customers who go to less-woke competitors. That’s why Bud Light doesn’t want anyone to remember. It can’t risk it.

A group of Chicago gay bars will no longer sell Bud Light after Anheuser-Busch distanced itself from Dylan Mulvaney. Bud Light and AB have faced incredible scrutiny and outrage after the beer brand teamed up with the transgender activist, whose entire brand seems to be mocking women, for a March Madness promo. The backlash was swift and unrelenting. As a result, Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Michael Doukeris attempted to distance the brand from Mulvaney this week. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 04: A view of rainbow bottles of Bud Light during the 30th Annual GLAAD Media Awards New York at...

Anheuser-Busch has employed a lobbying firm with GOP roots in Congress following its controversial partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. American Accountability Foundation has written a letter to Congressional staffers, per Fox Business, alleging Origin Advocacy has sent its founder and a partner to Capitol Hill on the brewer's behalf. Disclosures confirm that Origin Advocacy added Anheuser-Busch as a client this year. Founder Sean McClean and Origin partner Emily Lynch, with their former experiences as Republican staffers, have already begun "making the rounds," according to AAF. McClean is a former legislative director for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), while Lynch was...

As outrage from some conservatives blew up over Bud Light's sponsorship deal with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney, former President Donald Trump was notably silent as calls for a boycott of the company grew. According to The Independent, Trump's silence on the matter was possibly due to the fact that he holds a significant financial interest in Anheuser-Busch InBev, the company that produces Bud Light. In his most recent financial disclosure, Trump is shown to own between $1 million and $5 million in Anheuser-Busch InBev stock under an account listed as “DJT Trust — Investment Account #2."

CLAIM: Anheuser-Busch is closing half of its U.S. breweries following backlash over a Bud Light marketing initiative. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The claim stems from a website that publishes satirical content. No such widespread brewery closure has been announced by Anheuser-Busch. THE FACTS: Blog posts claiming that Bud Light’s parent company is closing half of its breweries in the U.S. have spread widely across social media in recent days, following the brand’s partnership with a transgender influencer and subsequent calls for boycotts by some prominent conservatives. SNIP But the claim is fabricated. It was first published by a website that is...

Bud Light has suffered a “staggering” sales hit following the beer brand’s controversial marketing tie-up with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney — with the latest data showing an alarming 17% drop, according to an industry research firm. The latest sales data from NielsenIQ and Bump Williams Consulting shows that Bud Light sales fell 17% in dollars, while volume dropped a whopping 21% in the week ended April 15. That’s sharply ahead of the 6% drop in sales dollars and 11% drop in volume that Bud Light had suffered during the week ended April 8 — the seven days that immediately followed...

A senior executive at Anheuser-Busch has been placed on leave in the wake of the anger over Bud Light's partnership with Dylan Mulvaney. Daniel Blake, who is the Anheuser-Busch vice president for mainstream brands, has stepped back from his job just days after Bud Light's VP of marketing Alissa Heinerscheid took a leave of absence. Blake is Heinerscheid's boss and the move highlights the turmoil at the multinational business, which is valued at more than $100 billion, over Bud Light's deal with Mulvaney. The company said the bosses 'decided' to temporarily step down, but their decisions were reportedly not voluntary....

Anheuser-Busch reportedly lost more than $6 billion in value after its disastrous decision to partner with trans narcissist Dylan Mulvaney. If there was anything clear from this move, it is that Bud Light’s VP of marketing, Alissa Heinerscheid, who was responsible for the debacle, wanted to push a social agenda rather than cater to it customers base. “Bud Light had been kind of a brand of fratty, kind of out-of-touch humor, and it was really important that we had another approach,” Heinerscheid said in a podcast interview in late March. In her mind, hiring a man who pretends to be...

Republicans who have pushed back on the boycott of Bud Light are facing backlash from fellow conservatives. Perhaps the most high-profile name drawn into the controversy is Donald Trump Jr., who recently called for an end to the Bud Light boycott. But a prominent GOP committee is also being criticized by right-wing figures for backing off its attacks on Bud Light. The calls for a boycott of Bud Light and its parent company Anheuser-Busch began soon after it was revealed that Bud Light had a partnership with transgender influencer and activist Dylan Mulvaney. The news resulted in many conservatives announcing...

Budweiser has released a new patriotic advertisement as its parent company struggles with controversy over its endorsement partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. The advertisement, which was released on social media Friday, features one of Budweiser’s famous Clydesdale horses traversing the country from New York City to the Grand Canyon, passing by scenes in the American heartland as a narrator delivers a patriotic message. This is a story bigger than beer,” the ad’s narrator says in the ad. “This is the story of the American spirit.” As the ad plays, the Clydesdale horse passes by some of the most famous...

Americans are drinking less beer after Bud Light, among others, raised their prices. In AB InBev's (BUD) latest quarterly results, the total volume of beer sold decreased by 0.9%. At the same time, total revenue grew 10.2% to $14.67 billion, with price increases a key driver of that. After price increases and "really complicated" weather in the month of December, CEO Michel Doukeris called the Q4 results in the U.S. a "one-off, complicated quarter" in a call with investors. Last quarter, the average price of a 24-pack of 12 oz. beer went up nearly 8%, per NielsenIQ data that was...

Before speaking recently at an event at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, a pastor approached me and said that we had met 20 years ago when I spoke at a particular church in Virginia. Then he said, “You warned us back then about all the stuff that would be coming with gay activism and how everyone thought you were crazy. And now,” he added, “it has all happened.”

Bud Light sales are down more than 80 percent this morning after Kid Rock let it be known that he really dislikes their use of a trans person in marketing campaigns. In response, Augustus Anheuser III personally fired the entire marketing department at the company. “We have a very particular retail customer base,” said Anheuser, “they don’t like wokeness. They don’t agree that they should have to accept immoral people and their lifestyles.” Former marketing director Joe Barron says he doesn’t regret the decision. “Every company does a pride thing. These idiots are all jumping to Coors when Coors started...