Seattle PI: Drinking Liberally, thinking globally

Drinking Liberally, thinking globally
Seattle chapter of liberal political junkies meets to talk strategy, gossip

By GREGORY ROBERTS
P-I REPORTER

On the TV in a corner of the Montlake Ale House, the Clippers battled the Suns in a pro basketball playoff game. But on this Tuesday night, as on every Tuesday night, the barroom talk focused on a spectator sport of different sort: politics.

"There's, like, serious earthshaking results now," Nick Beaudrot said, staring at his laptop computer, perched on the table amid pints of beers and plates of nachos, as returns from the Pennsylvania primary streamed across the screen.

Elsewhere around the room, discussions ranged across a variety of subjects, national and local: immigration policy, the future of KeyArena, presidential hopeful Mark Warner's record as Democratic governor of Virginia, the six-way fight for the Democratic nomination in Seattle's 43rd Legislative District, electronic surveillance of telephone calls, Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell's position on Iraq.

And everyone was Drinking Liberally -- even Andrew Villeneuve, a teenage blogger from Redmond who stuck to ice water.

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