06.16.2008 12:17 pm
AB’s political sway waning? Don’t bet your Bud on it
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Even under siege and with an uncertain future, the King of Beers continues to exert political influence like no other St. Louis institution.
According to the Arch City Chronicle, Crosslink Strategy Group — a Beltway consulting outfit run by high-powered Republican strategist Terry Nelson — has been calling lobbying and public relations firms around town looking for help representing InBev in its hostile takeover attempt of Anheuser-Busch.
“So far,” the Chronicle reports, “every company they have spoken to has turned them down.”
Is it loyalty? Or fear?
Should the Brewery survive InBev’s offensive, I’d hate to be the local lobbyist on record as having worked for the other side.
Of course they have undue political influence. Why do you think the deadly drug alcohol is legal, and medical cannabis is NOT? No rational thought behind that, just the fact that god made cannabis readily available and the brewers couldn’t monopolize the “manufacturing” of it as easily. It’s like Mike “It’s All Mine” Shanahan threatening that folks wouldn’t work in STL any longer if they crossed him. Think his SEC trials will change his ego-filled views of him owning this town?