Drinking Liberally 10/5

This week at Drinking Liberally, (Thursday, Oct. 5th, starting at 6pm at The Shanty on 4th Ave and 9th Str at the underpass) our special guest is Dr. Tom Volgy, former Mayor of Tucson and former Democratic candidate for Congress. Dr. Volgy is also a professor of political science with specialty in international affairs at the University of Arizona. There will be plenty of interesting topics to speak to Dr. Volgy about, so come down and say "Hi" to Tom.

UPDATE: Lena Seradnik , Democratic nominee for State Representative in LD 26, will also be joining us tonight (Oct. 5th) to talk about her candidacy and the issues facing Arizona.

Last week, we had special guests Dave Ewoldt (an expert on sustainable development from the fledging group Sustainable Tucson), and Mark Manoil (Democratic candidate for Az Corporation Commission). We had a great discussion of sustainable development and energy policy. Dr. Chat (former Democratic candidate for Congress in CD 2) and Paul Eckerstrom (former Chair of the Pima Democratic party) dropped in, as did House Majority Leader Phil Lopes, though he had to leave early for another meeting.

Of course, the most important person at Drinking Liberally is you. Special Guests come because they want to speak with you, one-on-one, as citizens. That’s no exageration or flattery, either. Consistently, the feedback I get is that most of our special guests love the informal conversational atmosphere and the exchange of ideas. I’ve loosened up in the past couple months about public addresses at Drinking Liberally (I used to forbid them – if candidates want to politick it had to be retail), but I still don’t let candidates come in, speechify, then pull a fade. You want to speak, you’ve got to stick around and speak to people over a delightful beverage.

Next week, we are screening Robert Greenwald’s newest film "Iraq for Sale". The meeting will start at 6 as usual, but the film will start at full dark, which we expect to be at 7pm or shortly thereafter.

Future weeks’ schedules can be found on the sidebar by clicking on the Google Calendar button. All future meeting’s guests and events are subject to change without notice. So don’t blame me.