What say y'all to having a DU convention in Salt Lake City and have Mayor Rocky Anderson as the

[helderheid]

keynote speaker?

[Greeby]

1. I'm hoping by that time

Rocky will be running for national office :)

[lyonn]

2. Was he good or what?

Who is the man from Utah! They had so many good speakers. I'm impressed. Can't wait to hear from DUers that are there!!

[helderheid]

4. I hope his speech changes people's perception of Utah a bit - SLC is progressive

[Cleita]

3. Why Salt Lake City?

It's too hard to get a drink there. How about Santa Fe, New Mexico?

[helderheid]

5. Because Mayor Rocky Anderson is the Mayor of SLC, UT

[Swamp Rat]

7. Want to drink at a DU convention?

Come to New Orleans!!!

Mardi Gras is coming up very soon, then there's the jazz fest in late April/May!



Here, your cup will literally runneth over. :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

[helderheid]

8. There are plenty of watering holes in SLC but New Orleans could use DU LOVE!!!

[Cleita]

11. Have they changed the laws? Last time I was there, no

bar could have a sign so you'd know where to go. DH was dying for a beer after driving all day. When we found a place, you had to join a club and be sponsored. We found 3/2 beer in the market. DH always liked something with more body and spirits like Whatney's or Samuel Adams. As soon as he rested he drove until we reached Nevada.

Sorry, for myself, I don't need to jump through hoops just to get a cocktail before dinner. I'm not trying to diss you and SLC but I'm just stating the problem I encountered before.

[Cleita]

14. That would be wonderful if I were twenty years younger.

I tend to avoid crowds now that I'm old and somewhat unsteady on my feet. Have a great Mardi Gras though.

[Swamp Rat]

6. That would be great

I wish I could go, but I can't. I lived in SLC for 3 years and would love to visit again... I really miss the Wasatch Mts and Uinta forrest.

[annabanana]

19. Hey Swampy.. did you see you've been called out?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x58359

[EstimatedProphet]

9. I'd rather have it somewhere else and invite him

Maybe Portland, or San Francisco...

[helderheid]

10. I'm selfish as I live 30 minutes from Salt Lake City :)

[EstimatedProphet]

17. I understand that

And I'm not trying to diss Utah. Southern Utah is very pretty.

I'd just like for a meeting like that to be in a very liberal place. VERY.

[helderheid]

18. You'd be surprised. Salt Lake City is VERY liberal. So is Park City. So is Moab. It's the rest that

is red and up until the late 60s, Utah was a blue state.

[Cleita]

12. Or Santa Fe, New Mexico which would be closer for him.

Santa Fe is a special place.

[philosophie_en_rose]

13. We can serve jello salad and milk.

:)

[Change has come]

15. Great Idea

I'm there. I'd be there if helderheid was keynote speaker. :toast:

[helderheid]

16. awwww!

:blush:

[jkshaw]

20. Places for beer lovers in Utah

Park City has at least two breweries that serve great beer. In fact, Park City, about 15 minutes from Salt Lake City proper, is like another state. There are many SLC restuarants that serve wine, beer, and cocktails. In Cache Valley, the reddest county in the reddest state in the Union, has many restaurants serving alcohol. The Sizzler serves beer, for instance. We have an Olive Garden, Hamilton's serves wine, we have a Ruby Tuesday that serves beer. Granted I don't know of any pubs up here, but I know there are some in Salt Lake.

If there were a DU event in Salt Lake, starring the wonderful Rocky Anderson, these more or less normal, everyday places could be listed for attendees, because it's true, they're not obvious, and Utah's Dark Ages liquor laws have turned more than one group off from foregathering by the Great Salt Lake. But those that do come here get lists of people-friendly places to relax in.

Our small farm in Cache Valley is something like two hours from Salt Lake and I'm too decrepit to march anymore, but it would be a great coup to have a crowd of Democrats in Salt Lake! And the state has become a little less red during the last round of polls, though not yet purple, could we hope that it's trending?

After 40 years living in this place I still can't take the red state politics. (I have trouble, too, with the climate, the culture, the droughts, the pink punch, but never mind.) I've long ago declared our twenty acres a sovereign nation, symbolically, because you can't imagine how hard it is for a New Jersey cradle Democrat with a prominent Outrage Button to live here and keep her mouth shut.

We're one family among very few, see, who are Democrats in this little town of Lewiston. We go off to vote in every election, knowing that our votes might just as well be tossed into the trash can. I'll bet the good people living up here not only think it's a kindness to keep our politics a secret, but pray each night that we all might be converted. My husband, walking along the sidewalk from our polling place last November said to me and our daughter, "When I pulled the lever for a straight Democratic ticket I expected an alarm to go off." Melanie (said daughter) and I stopped, held each other, and laughed our heads off.

Laughing is the only thing that keeps us going.