{"id":2007360,"date":"2023-08-21T19:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fed-up-ted-cruz-sends-letter-directly-to-anheuser-busch-belgium-headquarters-they-dont-want-to-ignore-this-one\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T19:02:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T23:02:16","slug":"fed-up-ted-cruz-sends-letter-directly-to-anheuser-busch-belgium-headquarters-they-dont-want-to-ignore-this-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fed-up-ted-cruz-sends-letter-directly-to-anheuser-busch-belgium-headquarters-they-dont-want-to-ignore-this-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz writes to Anheuser-Busch Belgium HQ: Can&#8217;t overlook this!"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffed-up-ted-cruz-sends-letter-directly-to-anheuser-busch-belgium-headquarters-they-dont-want-to-ignore-this-one%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2007360&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Fed-Up\u2062 Ted Cruz Sends Letter\u200b Directly to Anheuser-Busch Belgium Headquarters: \u2063They Don&#8217;t Want to Ignore This One<\/h2>\n<p>Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has taken action on an \u2063oft-overlooked aspect of Bud Light\u2019s recent Dylan Mulvaney fiasco.<\/p>\n<p>Three months ago, Cruz and Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of \u2062Tennessee launched an investigation to determine whether Anheuser-Busch, maker of Bud Light, advertised its beer to minors and those below the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-has-the-legal-drinking-age-in-south-carolina-been-lowered-to-18-years-old\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Has The Legal Drinking Age In South Carolina Been Lowered To 18 Years Old?\">legal drinking age<\/a> when it\u200d partnered with Mulvaney.<\/p>\n<p>In a Tuesday letter\u200c to Michel Doukeris, CEO of the Belgian-based \u2064Anheuser-Busch InBev SA\/NV, \u2062Cruz noted that the \u200bbrewing giant has yet\u200b to respond to\u200c the Senate\u2019s \u200drequests for relevant documents.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2008, Anheuser-Busch InBev \u2063SA\/NV has owned the once-venerable Anheuser-Busch brewing company of St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Cruz directed his documents request \u200cto Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth. \u2063According to Cruz\u2019s letter, Whitworth did not cooperate with the request.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, urged Doukeris to intervene. The Texas senator asked that Doukeris \u201cdirect Anheuser-Busch to cooperate with the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The issue here, of course, does not directly\u2063 relate to the recent conservative boycott that has torpedoed Bud Light\u2019s\u200d profits.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz\u2019s concern involves Anheuser-Busch\u2019s marketing tactics.<\/p>\n<p>In July, the three-person Code Compliance Review Board (CCRB) of the \u2064Beer Institute, what Cruz called \u201can industry-funded lobbyist \u200bgroup representing U.S. \u2064brewers,\u201d concluded by a 2-1 vote that\u200d \u201cAnheuser-Busch has\u200d not violated\u200c the Beer Institute\u2019s Advertising\/Marketing Code and Buying\u2062 Guidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz\u2019s letter, however, \u200cquoted the CCRB\u2019s\u200c lone dissenter, retired \u2062Judge Paul \u200dSummers.<\/p>\n<p>According to Summers, \u201cMulvaney appeals to persons below the legal drinking age with a \u2018special attractiveness\u2019 . . . is \u200cespecially attractive to young teens and girls; is often \u2062recognized as \u200cpreadolescent; and caters to very young people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, therefore, used\u2064 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tensions-flare-between-china-india-after-clashes-at-himalayan-border\/\" title=\"Tensions flare between China, India after clashes at Himalayan border\">thinly veiled threat<\/a> in an effort to secure Doukeris\u2019\u2064 cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven your \u200bbroader responsibility for the \u200dAnheuser-Busch InBev \u2063portfolio of more than 500 brands, I trust \u200byou share my sincere concern with the possibility that Anheuser-Busch is marketing alcohol to children and will direct Anheuser-Busch to cooperate immediately with the\u200c Commerce Committee\u2019s investigation,\u201d Cruz wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz\u2019s reference to the Belgian company\u2019s \u200cenormous portfolio of beer brands implied that federal action \u200bcould have wider consequences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe level of cooperation the Committee\u2064 receives will bear \u200bsignificantly on my assessment of whether this is part of \u200ba broader \u2062problem across the\u200c Anheuser-Busch \u200bInBev product line and whether changes to federal law are necessary to prohibit Anheuser-Busch InBev from marketing beer to \u200bchildren,\u201d the senator added.<\/p>\n<p>Bud Light drew\u200c criticism in April \u2062primarily for\u200b pushing Mulvaney and his \u2064narcissistic\u200c transgenderism on beer drinkers.<\/p>\n<p>The spectacle of June\u2019s\u2064 \u201cpride\u201d month, however, awakened \u2064many more\u200b conservatives to fanatical LGBT activists\u2019\u200b alarming interest in children.<\/p>\n<p>With the spectacular\u200b box-office success of Christian actor Jim Caviezel\u2019s \u2064\u201cThe Sound of Freedom,\u201d an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fed-up-ted-cruz-sends-letter-directly-to-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/super-bowl-lv-all-the-best-commercials\/\" title=\"Super Bowl LV: All The Best Commercials\">anheuser-busch<\/a>-belgium-headquarters-they-dont-want-to-ignore-this-one\/&#8221; title=&#8221;Ted Cruz writes to Anheuser-Busch Belgium HQ: Can&#8217;t overlook this!&#8221;>anti-child sex trafficking film released<\/a> in\u2063 theaters on July\u2064 4,\u200b conservatives are now fully alert to\u200c a\u2064 global problem involving the \u200bsexualization of minors.<\/p>\n<p>Only in this larger context can we fully appreciate Cruz\u2019s persistence with an important investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fed-ted-cruz-sends-letter-directly-anheuser-busch-belgium-headquarters-dont-want-ignore-one\/\">Fed-Up Ted Cruz Sends Letter Directly to Anheuser-Busch Belgium Headquarters: They Don&#8217;t Want to \u200bIgnore This \u200cOne<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is addressing a neglected issue related to Bud Light&#8217;s Dylan Mulvaney controversy. Alongside Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Cruz initiated an inquiry three months ago to investigate whether Anheuser-Busch, the producer of Bud Light, unlawfully targeted minors and individuals below the legal drinking age in their beer advertisements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":2007361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2007361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}