It wasn’t as interesting a story when Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker served up Beer & Brats to lawmakers as a celebration for winning his recall election, but the Women’s Christian Temperance Union has now made it much more interesting. This from ABCNews:
Walker invited state lawmakers to a cookout at the governor's mansion after winning a recall election last week that was spurred by anger over a law he pushed through the Legislature effectively eliminating most public workers' union rights.
Now, he's angered the Women's Christian Temperance Union with his plan to serve beer at the Tuesday cookout designed to help bring Republicans and Democrats together. The WCTU successfully lobbied for Prohibition, which made selling alcohol illegal from about 1920 to the early 1930s, and its 5,000 members continue to spread its anti-drinking message nationwide.
The cookout menu features brats, a local sausage whose name is pronounced "brahts," and beer produced by a number of Wisconsin companies. Root beer from Milwaukee-area brewer Sprecher, which made a special label saying "Moving Wisconsin Forward," also will be served.
where can we but that signature root beer????
ReplyDeleteYes, please tell the public if we can buy the rootbeer with that label?
ReplyDeleteNo word yet....
ReplyDeleteAdd Sprecher to the list of companies to boycott. There is plenty of better beer (and root beer) at better prices to give my hard earned money too.
ReplyDeleteNot a fan of Sprecher or the Gov Eric?...or both?
ReplyDeleteI think Gov Walker should be able to serve what he wanted. WCTU is a joke they are a bunch of old crazy women thinking they can change the world again. Yeah they won prohibition in 1920 but look at all the people they killed indirectly with people making poison and selling as booze. I think WCTU has more blood on their hands than any alcoholic companies does. So good for Gov Walker for serving beer.
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