Join us on June 6th to see Lee Camp perform. http://leecamp.net

Politics can be boring and pretty unfunny. Drinking Liberally’s hot sister-wife, Laughing Liberally, is doing its best to fix that. For our Drinking Liberally party and fundraiser on June 6th, Laughing Liberally comedian Lee Camp will be flying out from New York to entertain us and make us laugh.

From The Huffington Post:

And here’s Lee telling Fox News they’re “a parade of propaganda, a festival of ignorance”:

WHEN: Friday, June 6th. Doors open at 7:00, entertainment at 8:00
WHERE: Brian’s Warehouse – 1130 South Richards Street (between Main & W. Temple, but enter from the West Temple side behind the Associated General Contractors building) MAP: http://tinyurl.com/62kp3c
WHAT:
• Laughing Liberally comedian from NYC!
• – Bill Frost from the City Weekly will present a special Bush in 6 words Ocho
- Josie Valdez, candidate for Lt Gov will participate in the improv
- Jean Hill, candidate for Attorney General will also participate in the improv.
- Rocky Anderson regrets he can’t attend, but he made sure to send us his 6 words!
• Improv performed by 3.2 Improv (www.3point2Improv.com) involving local politicos
• Bush In Six Words* contest
• Live Music
* Good beer, bloody Georges, and Hurricane Katrinas

Proceeds go to local DL expenses (website, flyers, community awareness…) and our national “parent” organization Living Liberally (http://www.LivingLiberally.org), an organization dedicated to providing easy entrance into progressive involvement, using social interaction to promote political action and facilitating collaboration among progressive organizations. See here and here.

* Legend has it, Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only 6 words. His response? “For Sale: Baby Shoes. Never worn.”
What if the same 6-word challenge were applied to the Bush Dynasty? What 6 words would you choose?

Musical entertainment will be provided by Syqnys:

 (Click to view the full flyer)

Nationally, Drinking Liberally has been around for 5 years, and our national leaders are celebrating in NYC, just as we’ll be celebrating on June 6th.  Since they hired a full time employee (Justin Krebs, co-founder of Drinking Librerally), Drinking Liberally and the parent organization Living Liberally has become a force with which to be reckoned.  You can read regular posts on the influential blog Open Left; Living Liberally will be providing the fun and entertainment at the Netroots Nation convention (formerly called YearlyKos), which isthe convention for progressive activists; and we’re coming up on having chapters in all 50 states.  

It’s this 50-state strategy of theirs that grabbed the attention of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.  You might recall Gov. Dean had a 50-state strategy of his own.  For Living Liberally’s birthday celebration, Howard Dean created a congratulations video, noting that Living Liberally now plays a national part in the progressive movement and that we’re part of a change that is taking over the Democratic party and our country.  Check it out:

How exciting! I just got off the phone with reporters from both The New York Times and Politico. They have been interviewing the national organizers of Drinking Liberally and they referred them to us for some “local” flavor.

In addition, we have Salt Lake Magazine interested in doing an article on our group for this fall’s edition.

Check back for article postings!

Drinking Liberally has a dog pack for this year’s Strut Your Mutt! This annual No More Homeless Pets in Utah fundraiser takes place Saturday, May 31st at Sugarhouse Park. Registration begins at 8, walk begins at 9:15. Price for dog pack members is only $25.00! Click here to register

Visit www.utahpets.org for more details on this event.

From Mother Jones Magazine and Brave New Films

No thanks, I don’t like Parsley.