It’s that time once again. Liberals will be drinking at The Shanty on 4th Ave by the underpass starting at 6pm this Thursday. This week we will be competing for liberals’ affections with Bill Clinton, who is in town for a rally for Jim Pederson at the DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center at Reid Park at 6:30 pm. I won’t be hurt if you decide to go there first – hell, I might go myself. But we’ll still be there for you when Bill is done feeling your pain, so feel free to drop in later – we always go until well after 9 pm. It takes a little while to drink liberally, you know.
Last week, we hosted Tucson City Councilwoman Nina Trasoff, who said she had a great time and will be dropping in on us from time to time from now on. We look forward to it. That’s one classy lady.
Next week, we don’t yet have anyone scheduled, so drop by our bulletin board and make a suggestion, or email TUCSON at DRINKINGLIBERALLY dot ORG.
November 16th, DL will be hosting Tucson City Manager Mike Hein.
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In response to popular demand, Drinking Liberally will be hosting a Poll Watching party on election eve. In need of big screen satellite televisions, wireless internet access, and food service until midnight to sustain us through the long night, we will be holding the party at the Trident Saloon at 2033 E. Speedway (east of Campbell near the Buffalo Exchange). The party starts at 7 pm when the polls close, and continues until they kick us out.
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azw88;
My Family on my wifes side (The Bring Family) often talks about the early morning call they received at the Brings Memorial Chapel in 1938, after buying a new Hudson Hearse, Hudson 1938 Terra Plane with an electric gear shift , to a first call near Oracle. When they got there they found a new Cord Sports car smashed against a bridge abutment and return to Tucson with the deceased TOM MIX! Comments from the family then and now were about the eye shadow and make up he was wearing. From that time on Movie producers used our Limousines and staff in many movies including the Dirty Harry Movies where it featured our Hearse and Limo’s driving north from Nogales after Dirty Harry was killed, in the movie. (Clint Eastwood)
I’m perfectly willing to take quality over quantity. Don’t for a minute imagine that this poor site depends on your antics for it’s popularity, Dwight.
Leister, oddly enough, I do have relatives on my dad’s side that have(had, maybe, I am not close to my father’s side of the family) land in Oracle Junction (used to own the Oracle Junction Inn) but my family is not wealthy, land owners. My grandmother was born in Globe, but raised in Texas.
sorry, Michael
I do not mean to use this blog to set up Real Estate deals but since one of the bloggers stated he was a third generation Arizonan from an area that we are looking at to build a Cemetery, and your guest was Mike Hein involved with Real Estate deals everywhere in southern Arizona, I thought I would ask if he knew of a good location, that would be accepted by its neighbors.
I glanced at all the comments posted on all the topics ranging from (0) ZERO to (1) one or (2)two, I see when I post a comment all hell breaks loose!
I don’t have any problem with someone posting frequently, but STAY ON TOPIC, for God’s sake!
Dwight, if you want to ramble or set up real estate deals, maybe you could resort to email, or just start your own blog?
Dwight,
You are taking over Mike’s blog AGAIN!
azwildcat88.
On a more serious note we are looking to open a cemetery and funeral home plus crematorium combination north of Oro Valley. Since your family has been associated with the area north of Oro Valley to Globe I thought you might have some ideas about land that would be suitable for a Cemetery. I have been told by real Estate agents everything is sold between Tucson and Globe for future developement. We are looking in the Marana area also for future sites. The Company owns land in Oro Valley for a future Funeral Home but could make a deal on that property to move the location further north.
Anyone who visited The Shamrock Dairy Farm on Ruthrauff Road as when I was growing up after first visiting Tucson in 1946 the the moving here in 1951 could be treated to free ice cream and fresh milk and see a real working dairy. Again everything I say is being treated like SPLIT HAIRS and if a bunch of old men can’t take a good story about Shamrock Foods and a Family that was doing business with each other from Brings Funeral Homes Inc. and my grandfathers Boyertown Casket Company since the 1920’s before I was born later to marry into the same family with-out knowing what the future would bring is quite a story, but not on this blog!
As far as being The Joe Sweeney of CD8 I will tell you I am a Candidate that will hold anyone elected to cd8 accountable for anything they say or promise to the voter and conveniently FORGET for as long as it takes before people “GET IT!”
I did not say I went to Shamrock foods in the 1930’s before I was born I said my Family which is THE BRING FAMILY OF BRINGS FUNERAL HOMES INC!
If Mike Hein was a CEO for any company and had ” Buddy Punching” going on in his company he would be fired! Continued misrepresentations and advocating for or against a proposition by Mike Hein is illegal.
The more than half of all City Time Cards being punched fraudulently is a discrace and calls for accountabilty not passing the buck as with the one billion dollar screw up the State of Arizona is now refunding to Quest and dumping it on the Tax Payer through incresed property taxes!
Who ever made that deal should not be left in Office or be able to give excuses for having a bad day at the office.
These people who make sweet heart deals with themselves and benefit financially as with the El Campo Tire Giffords rip off then hide everything in a trust and put herself as the executor then say nothing is wrong will be dealt with by the taxpayerpaying for all this crap!
Dwight Wrote:”My family went to Shamrock Foods on Ruthrauff Road and was always welcome to sample all the flavors of Ice Cream back into the 1930’s!”
Dwight, I really think you need to go back and read your own bio on your webpage, which states:
“Dwight’s parents were forced to move to Arizona from Boyertown P.A. in 1951 because of Dwight’s health having asthma”
You are so full of shyte, lies, and 1/2-truths it would be scary if your candidacy weren’t such a joke. Are you the ‘Joseph Sweeney’ of CD8??
BTW: I am a 3rd generation Arizonan, 2nd generation Tucsonan. My grandmother was born in Globe when HER father worked ranches in the White Mountains. The moved back to Arizona in the late 30’s after losing their land in Texas due to the great Depression. They settled in the Tucson area in 1939 when my grandmother was 15.
I want to cear up something for everyone ; I have conducted business with Arizona with a hand shake for decades and hold everyone no matter how you may think about any subject or from any religion in the highest esteem.
Since I have expressed my views openly for discussion attacks on me and my family by people playing politics still have NOT changed the way I do business with the public.
I have NOT changed my Party Affiliation to benefit myself to run for this or that, and when someone from my own party has done something wrong I have had no problem exposing it to the public as I did Pima County Sheriff Waldon V. Burr in 1968 to over 80 Pima County Grand Jury inditements that the media DID NOT KNOW ABOUT until I TOLD THEM! As a Candidate for Pima County Sheriff there were the same people saying the same things about me until they found out I was involved in a Grand Jury, and State, and Pima County Attorney investigation that shook Law Enforcement in Pima County for the next 20 years. No one anywhere trusted The Pima County Sheriffs Department as Sheriff Clarence Dupnik wrote me in 1998 stating” He Wished I had won the Office of Pima County Sheriff in 1968 as I could have saved The Sheriffs Department from the UGLY DOWNFALL of the BURR REGIME!” That same Sheriff is advocting right now for Gabrielle Giffords on TV ADS! Randy Graf did not tell me then or now what to do and I take offense at those kinds of slurrs about my integrety and that of my businesses that are doing business today to serve the people of Arizona and the Nation with respect and Dignity.
I have known the Huckelberry Family since they worked for Shamrock Foods owned by The McClellands in Tucson. Chuck used to deliver Milk with his Father in the 1970’s running around watching him unload the Shamrock Trucks, then later as a supervisor. My family went to Shamrock Foods on Ruthrauff Road and was always welcome to sample all the flavors of Ice Cream back into the 1930’s!
I was in negotiations to by Food Giant Supermarkets from the Tournquist(Dick) Family before they lost the business to Shamrock who called in its debt owed by Food Giant. Associated Grocerers sent in another Family member Al Felix, to take over the running of Food Giant and unfortunatly sold it to Arden Mayfair who ran it into the ground and sold it off in bits and pieces. I knew Al Felix from The Circle K Corporation as I was an Executive for many years before it was sold to Carl Eller the sign man who also ran that business into the ground. Eller is another horror story of someone you may think you know but know nothing about him or how he got into that position.
When you are on the INSIDE of the Story and making the Story I always was amazed at how the Media gets the story wrong to favor those of which it wants to cast a favorable light.
Just because a couple of reporters were told to throw together a quick story about the Giffords deal with The City Of Tucson, pushed by Jim Kolbe, and Raul Grijalvia to cover up there actions I would not bet the Farm that the truth of how this thing came together will create yet another storyto be printed by the media.
Curtis;
I do not subscribe to The Red Star nor do I listen to Randy Graf , being an owner of a business with-in the Rio Nuevo District for 80 plus years business leaders have known of The Cities DEAL with El Campo Tire which Giffords IS a Manager of the TRUST which these payments are made to.
If you know anything about a TRUST and how it is set up and why it is set up you will see it is a TAX SHELTER for those Trustees; and allows them to file TAXES JOINTLY; yes I SAID JOINTLY: being Gabrielle Giffords files taxes JOINTLY with the Trust she Manages.
I call a more than 15 million dollar deal with the City over 50 years VERY INTERESTING as I own property in the same area and was not approached. I bought more land downtown and did not try to sell it to avoid possible EPA clean-up charges when I pulled my (2) two 10 thousand gallon gas tanks from the Funeral Homes Property that fueled our Limousines, Cars and Vans and Hearses and Employees cars. The EPA does regular sampling of my Creamatoriums also. Doing business in Tucson is not as one sided as you may think CURTIS and business owners that were around when Arizona was founded are NOT STUPID!
I kind of like the hub-up of the big room and some of the siderooms (my recollections from 1988 at least). I did have fun @ the Hotel Congress Gathering for the Primary
Gotta think about it.
See you @ Clinton or maybe @ the Shanty afterwards to debate further..
Curtis,
Why Drinking Liberally’s party rather the party’s party, or a candidate’s party, you ask?
Because I’ve been to those parties and believe me, you aren’t missing much. And they don’t provide nearly the massive pipeline of media info on the entire national race we’ll have. And the food sucks. Plus, we’ll have no speeches you can’t change the channel on or throw food at. And one word: Live-blogging. Well, one compound word, anyhow. Need I go on?
Dwight, perhaps you should spend more time reading the newspaper and less time listening to Randy Graf ads. The Star already looked into this and found much of the accusations to be completely false. Gabby herself had NOTHING to do with the deal.
Correction thats $160,000 Dollars per year paid by the City Of Tucson to Giffords for 50 years!!!
Lets ask Mike Hein about the Giffords “Sweet Heart Deal” on her El Campo Tire Property at 22nd st. and I 10; and why the City teams up with like minded people to support for Congress with one thread common to all of them The Rio Nuevo Bridge to nowhere is keeping all these clowns fat and happy with taxpayer money!
Giffords 160,000 dollar lease to the city for contaminated land for 50 years ? Boy where do I get a deal like that supported by Mike Hein?
The Dem party will be at the Doubletree on Alvernon, if anyone is intereted.
what about the big democratic party party????
Why can’t we just grab our own corner of theat event