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Peter Hanson Coors (born September 20 , 1946 ) is a U.S. businessman and Entreprenuer . He currently is the CEO of the Coors Brewing Company in Colorado . Born in Golden, Colorado , Coors graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Engineering , and received his MBA from the University Of Denver in 1970 . He has worked all of his life in various positions at his family's Coors Brewing Company and he is a multimillionaire. In , Coors became a Class A Director in the newly formed Molson Coors Brewing Company . {Link without Title} Coors is married to Marilyn Coors (''nee'' Grosso) and has six children. He is the great-grandson of Adolph Coors , the Brewing entrepreneur. SENATE RUN In Ken Salazar in the November 2004 Election , but Coors was defeated by a margin of 51% to 47%. {Link without Title} According to the non-partisan Center For Responsive Politics (CPS), Coors gave his own campaign $1,213,657 and received individual donations of $60,550 from other Coors family members. Scott Coors, the openly gay marketing director of Coors, who also sits on the Human Rights Campaign’s Business Council gave Pete Coors a $1000 contribution. The ''Rocky Mountain News'' reported Scott Coors "made a salary of $104,656 plus bonuses of $24,163 in 2004" from Coors Brewing before resigning in April, 2005.[http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/business/article/0,1299,DRMN_4_3677786,00.html Top Pete Coors Campaign Contributors Connected with Coors Brewing
Maloof Companies has been a distributor of Coors products since the 1930s. Its president served on the Board of the Coors Distributor Council. Crest Beverage distributes Coors products in southern California and Faust distributes them in Texas. Coors raked in thousands of dollars worth of smaller contribution from other people who have an interest in selling Molson Coors products. To give one example, Joyce and Kenneth Adamson gave Coors $6,000. They both listed their employer as Capital Beverage Co., a Sacramento, CA Coors distributor formerly known as Capital Coors Co. Altogether, Coors received at least $219,010 from political action committees and from individual donors affiliated with "beer, wine, & liquor" and "food & beverage" industries. Coors went on to be defeated by Ken Salazar in the 2004 elections. Since then, he has shown no interest in entering politics again. |
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