Farquar's Footnotes
By Edward D. H. Tash

I've added a few books to the clubs library. The first book is The Coors Connection: How Coors Family Philanthropy Undermines Democratic Pluralism by Russ Bellant.

This book tells how the Coors Family gives money to right wing groups. According to Bellant, these groups have ties to Ku Klux Klan, John Birch Society, Free Congress Foundation, The Heritage Foundation, Lester Maddox, American Independence Party (George Wallace, 1968), Moral Majority, James Watt, Oliver North, the Contras, Rev. Moons' Unification Network, and NAZI collaborators. Bellant supports these claims with endnotes (287 to be exact).

The author puts it best in the conclusion to the book, 'The Coors family derives the bulk of its wealth from working- and middle-class people who purchase Coors beer products. The Coors family, thought its political operations, then uses it's share of the profit from these beer sales to perpetuate and encourage regressive government and social policies that serve only the narrow interest of a handful of the very wealthy in our country. That the Coors family is able to cloud this reality is due to the Coors Corporation's high visibility advertising campaign'.

I don't really know if these claims are true or not. I do know that I don't like Coors beers very much and this is one good reason not to buy their products.

I wonder how much money the Coors Family have (or plan to) give to the Presidential Campaign this year and what are the odds that most (if not all) of it went to Bob Dole.

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