Friday, January 20th, our regular Drinking Liberally meet-up will be held in the back room of Fiddler’s Elbow (map) instead of our usual at the Desert Edge. This is to ensure we have enough room for our guest speaker, Pete Ashdown.

Pete Ashdown is running for US Senate against Orrin “Blow up their computers” Hatch this year. Pete is running a grassroots, “open source” campaign complete with a wiki which allows anyone to edit the content, a blog, and a good old-fashioned campaign website at www.peteashdown.com, where you can sign up to become a volunteer. Pete has gained quite a bit of press even outside of Utah, but he could certainly use more volunteers to beat the 5-term incumbent senator with powerful connections (who, incidentally, won his senate seat in 1976 on a platform of Senate term limits).

Pete will be speaking at 7:30, but will be there earlier to mingle with the league of liberal drinkers. So feel free to read up on where Pete stands on the issues and bring your questions for him. Open to everyone, and sure to be an enlightening evening.