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:

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.

This week Drinking Liberally hosts our 2nd Environmental Panel Discussion. Join our invited guests as we discuss the politics surrounding environmental policies. In case you have forgotten: 6:30 onward on the back patio of the Piper Down (1492 So State).

Our panelists are:

* Ted Wilson - Utah Rivers Council - http://www.utahrivers.org/

* Vanessa Pierce - HEAL Utah - http://www.healutah.org/

* Ashley Patterson - Green Building Center - http://www.greenbuildingcenter.net/

* Trent Lenz - Tree Utah - http://www.treeutah.org/

If you missed Ted Wilson and Vanessa Pierce on RadioActive this month, you can listen to their shows online at:

Utah Rivers:

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/krcl/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1258395&sectionID=1

Heal Utah:

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/krcl/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1265028

Remember, walking and biking is encouraged! The Piper Down is just 1 mile from the 13th South TRAX stop. It’s eco-friendly AND helps to burn off those beer calories.

Young Democrats of Utah Website

As I understand it, I think the Democratic super delegates is a rather good idea.  I think of them as a mini-Congress.  In a close primary like we have seen, the person who is best able to pursuade the super delegates to vote for them is also more likely to get Congress to accomplish something.  If Obama can in fact get the super delegates on his side then fine, but I think that will prove to be a bigger test for him.  I’m happy that the Dems do not have a winner-take-all system at the Republicans do.  If they did, then Obama’s many small wins would still not equal Clinton’s larger state wins and the super delegates wouldn’t matter either.  It is a system that may seem dumb but actually adds another check and balance to the larger picture.