Newport (KY) Starbucks boots Dems [View All]

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(For those of you who don't know, Newport is right across the river from Cincinnati and is considered part of the Cincy metropolitan area.)

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060713/NEWS0103/307130032

Newport Starbucks boots Dems
BY PATRICK CROWLEY | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

NEWPORT -A group of Northern Kentucky Democrats who gathered to talk party politics were given the boot Wednesday night from a Newport Starbucks coffee shop.

According to several people who were at the gathering, two Starbucks employees approached the group while Campbell County Democratic Party Chairman Ken Mullikin was speaking shortly before 6 p.m.

The employees, who were described as stern by some and rude by others, told the 15 to 20 Democrats they had to leave the shop because it would not play host to a political gathering.

Katie Henderson, president of the College Democrats at Northern Kentucky University, said she was “disappointed and upset” because a similar gathering had been held a month earlier....

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