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Frustrated former employees of Anheuser-Busch complained that “incompetent” leadership at the beer company had cowered in fear to the criticism it faced for partnering with Dylan Mulvaney last April, and should’ve doubled down in supporting the transgender influencer. “I really wish that we had stuck to our guns and said: ‘We did this; beer is for everyone; get over it,'” one ex-employee told The Guardian. The media outlet spoke to several former employees on the condition of anonymity about their experience working for the beer giant while they dealt with “one of the biggest boycotts in US history.” Bud Light...

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.

. . . "It's 33 years overdue," said Robert Lee, a creative director at Publicis Groupe's Kaplan Thaler Group, of the Anheuser spot, referring to the cold reception that Vietnam veterans often got after returning from that war. Still, some viewers were a little uneasy with the corporate flag-waving. "It would have been better if it was a PSA, a public-service announcement, and not a BSA, beer-service announcement," said Tom Amico, a creative director at Kaplan. . . .