Denver Coffee Party - 2 Tsp Of Dem Politics And A Dash Of Progressivism, Please

Update: Also, Michigan Coffee Party linked to MoveOn and DFA here.

The initial photo set was linked out to by Bill Jacobson. Plenty more groups there. I got a tip to follow up on from that.

Let's see - Colorado Coffee Party chapter leader- Niccolo Cassewit, Community organizer Transition Colorado - also home to MoveOn types and efforts to give Barack some good ideas - candidate - Denver City Council, 4% of vote total. Not new to politics our boy Niccolo. Does he connect with anyone not Far Left? No, not really. Krugman fan, bleech!

Niccolo Casewit is a politically active community member and architect with an agenda that could be summed up briefly as inclusive gentrification.

Then there's Miles Lovato, also of the Denver group. His blog Notes for Policy Progress is blocked from public view.

link: The Coffee Party gathering in Belmar, hosted by Miles Lovato and Joanna Groepper, attracted 26 adults and four children. We met outside The Press Coffee Company in 50 degree + weather.

From Lovato's linked in profile. This Coffee Party effort has to be the first grassroots effort I've ever seen where just about all the organizers come right out of official Democrat, or Far Left politics. Hmm.

I have served as a volunteer for several political campaigns, including: the Perlmutter for Congress campaign 2006, and the Democratic Party of Colorado campaign to elect progressives at the state, local and national levels 2008. I have also served as a legislative intern at the Colorado General Assembly in the office of Public Policy for the House majority leader 2009.

I am preparing for a Peace Corps service beginning June of 2010. I will be trained as a business adviser in South America.

My goals and ambitions for the future include: graduate school at an ivy league institution followed by extensive public service. Preferably in a field related to international development or economic policy.

Comments

[elaine]

"politically active community member and architect with an agenda that could be summed up briefly as inclusive gentrification"

These progressives crack me up, because moving minorities out of their affordable, yet run-down old homes so whites can fix them up is terribly inclusive...

[Kevin]

Um, what about MoveOn.org and ANSWER. They also pretended to be grassroots.

[Dick Stanley]

It's the Donkey base, disguised as the grassroots. Where else would they get enough folks to plump for their Left agenda?

[slayer]

Not a minority face amongst any of them across the country. Look at all the pictures. Racists!

[Peter]

A collection of Marxists through and through. Also, with no more than a handful in any location — there were 5 in DC and NC — the astroturfed campaign was an epic FAIL.

[SoCal Stoli]

"I will be trained as a business adviser in South America"

LOL.

God help whatever country to which he's sent. I can only imagine what the freakin' PEACE CORPS teaches about "business"! (The Venezuelan model, perhaps?)

[Dan Riehl]

I wouldn't laugh, Stoli - that'll work real well for him when he comes back to the Banana Republic we're going to be by the time Obama gets through.

[Brett Bellmore]

I can think of a couple of nominally "pro gun but *reasonable*" astroturf outfits the Democrats set up in past elections to produce the illusion gun owners liked gun control, that were as blatant. To the point, I mean, of having their web sites registered by the DNC's law firm, and their offices in the same building. Americans for Gun Safety, for instance. It's actually been pretty common, though the press always pretends to take them seriously.

To be fair, I'm not aware if this has been standard Democratic practice on issues aside from gun control.

[xerocky]

"I will be trained as a business adviser in South America."

What's he going to do, tell them to cut costs by hiring just illegal’s?

[Peg C.]

Tea Partiers are going to descend on D.C. today by the thousands, if not tens of thousands. Those 30 Coffee Partiers sure will be busy scurrying from spot to spot trying to look like a big movement.

[Diggs]

"I am preparing for a Peace Corps service beginning June of 2010. I will be trained as a business adviser in South America."
Please, let's export all Leftards.

[Ken Neil]

To be fair, many liberals have real world experience in business. Who else can you buy illegal drugs from?

[Zee-Man]

"The Coffee Party gathering in Belmar, hosted by Miles Lovato and Joanna Groepper, attracted 26 adults and four children. We met outside The Press Coffee Company in 50 degree + weather."

I live in Denver. Just for the record, "Belmar" = Yuppie Scum. Good riddance.

[Niccolo Casewit]

Hi: Thanks for the plug! After running for City Council in 2007, and speaking with something like 2,000 people, I found out that I am very moderate---it's almost embarrassing with my diverse background and education---- I should be way, way Left. If had to say: I am an "independently thinking pragmatic idealist"--- But you know what? I have just experienced to many extremes and seen how that has had a negative effect on my family personally; and my friends and professional colleagues as well.

There are no easy or "pat" answers only many many questions. I try not to denigrate anyone to make my self "convincing". The importance of "freedom of expression" is that we give all people, even those with whom we may disagree with the same courtesy of really listening to them. I would encourage us to recognize that accuracy is still important to all Patriotic citizens---We should actually research subjects and individual people when writing about them---we might even interview them! Thanks, and please stay engaged in your own peaceful activities and interesting commentary. best wishes. Niccolo Casewit (correct spelling--Yes I am also on Face Book) Co-founder of the Coffee Party Movement Denver Chapter. Feb 2010)