- In April,
Republican Pete Coors (beer company) said that he would rather be
compared to a convicted KLANSMAN than to John Kerry. [more] and [more]
- The Coors company has FUNDED Anti-affirmative action campaigns recently. Such as the Michigan drive. [more]
- The Coors Company is Anti-Union [more]
- The Coors Company is anti-gay [more]
- Some believe the Coors Company is connected to the KKK [more]
- In his book, " The Coors Connection ," author Russ Bellent points out that Pete allowed the Coors Foundation to continue funding the Council for National Policy, a right-wing group whose board member, Richard Shoff , was a leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana. Bellent also points out the Coors Foundation "gave $2500 in 1981 to the ultra-rightist Patriotic American Youth, Inc., a group which also distributes explicitly racist literature." And Pete Coors's uncle, William Coors, told a group of African-American businessmen in Denver that blacks " lack the intellectual capacity to succeed ." [more]