Article: BOARD TO REVIEW REQUEST TODAY Ament urges against Anheuser-Busch bid He calls brewer's effort to sell beer at Wisconsin Center `ludicrous'

County Executive F. Thomas Ament said Wednesday it is "ludicrous" for Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. to want to sell its beer at the Wisconsin Center.

"Anheuser-Busch has made it very difficult to buy a Miller, Point, Old Style, Leinenkugel's, Sprecher or any other Wisconsin-brewed beer in its hometown venues, yet it has been whining for weeks about not being able to sell its products in ours," Ament wrote to City Comptroller W. Martin Morics, chairman of the Wisconsin Center Board's Finance and Personnel Committee.

The committee will consider today Anheuser-Busch's request to be allowed access to the Wisconsin Center. The Wisconsin Center does not now sell out-of-state beers at its facilities, ...

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