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Pete Coors: Fratboy Senator?“I don't need this job,” Pete Coors remarked of his bid to become Colorado's junior senator in 2004. “Trust me, I've already got the best job in America — chairman of a beer company!”
[Coors was a better brewer than he a campaigner. During one debate with Bob Schaffer, he failed to realize that Paul Martin was the prime minister of Canada, a surprising lapse given that Coors was in the process of merging with Molson - a Canadian brewery. And at a campaign rally in the small town of Salida two days before the primary, Coors proposed a consumption tax, without realizing that it would be regressive.]
[Trivia: Why do many beer drinkers boycott Coors? "I would urge those of you who feel [upset about slavery]," William Coors declared in 1984, "to go back to where your ancestors came from, and you will find out that probably the greatest favor that anybody ever did you was to drag your ancestors over here in chains, and I mean it." Africa, Coors helpfully explained, lacks “the intellectual capacity to succeed, and it's taking them down the tubes...”]
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[Sources: The Economist, Aug 12th 2004]More Pete Coors anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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