Newport (KY) Starbucks boots Dems

[theHandpuppet]

(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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[Deja Q]

1. Write down names and quotes. Keep an eye open for other gatherings,

particularly of political nature.

This is the land of lawsuits. And the seeds may have been sewn for one.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Starbucks Sucks!

Who needs them?

[SoCalDem]

3. A group of people randomly gathering is one thing, but

groups who plan a "meeting" may run afoul of company policies.. This same thing happened to a Mom's group I started years ago.. We all went to a coffee shop after a meeting at someone's home, and decided it would be nice to do it regularly.. The next time we went, the manager told us we would have to "schedule" for "regular meetings".. We did not go back :)

This could be what prompted the starbucks thing.. Most of them have rather limited seating, and are not set up for people coming in, taking a lot of tables and staying for a long time...

[LisaM]

5. Then why don't they stop students from studying for many hours?

There is a Starbucks in our Barnes and Noble, and it's always packed with kids studying, who set in for HOURS with backpacks and iPods and cellphones and laptops. You can never get in there to get a cup of coffee and read the book you just bought.

[SoCalDem]

6. Having never been IN a starbucks myself

I don't know..but maybe the B&N one cuts them slack because they buy books there? or because they are quiet? :shrug:

[LisaM]

8. They don't buy books there and they're not quiet

It's like Study Hall Social Hour. They buy coffee there, and hog all the tables.

[peace13]

4. In 2004 we held Kerry meetings at our local Caribou Coffee Co.

They were happy to have us. Peace, Kim

[bullimiami]

7. IF this is a nationwide company policy. NO HOSTING POLITICAL

GATHERINGS. NONE. Then OK. Otherwise its time for someones to start firing rogue employees or someone getting their franchise revoked.