I just talked to my mom about the coffee party. Supposedly it started here

[xultar]

In ATL by some bruvas. What are y'all hearing about it.

[meegbear]

1. I joined the group but I haven't been to any meetups ...

they seem sincere; sign up and check 'em out.

[SargeUNN]

2. From what I read it started in Virginia

My show producer told me about it the first time I heard of it and stated he thought it started in Louisiana. I read it actually started in Virginia at some website, I think the coffee party website (I sent him the link but didn't save it), and he checked it out again. He agreed it was Virginia, so I didn't bother to check out anymore of the origins.

[xultar]

3. Is it a true blue liberal thing? Maybe the dudes my mom speak of started the ATL Chapter.

[SargeUNN]

4. Honestly I don't know

I have read what I can on it and the vagueness of what I read leaves me wondering. I also read, but can't verify the claims, that it is republican in origin (again I don't know if that is the case). I did read a lot from the website and found it so loosely defined that I just refused to do anything with it until it is more clear.

[Kind of Blue]

5. Last I heard, it started in Maryland

"Several weeks ago, documentary filmmaker Annabel Park was sitting in her apartment in Silver Spring, Md., when she updated her Facebook page with a good, old-fashioned rant. 'Let's start a coffee party — a Red Bull party — anything but tea,' she wrote. 'Let's get together and drink cappuccino and have real political dialogue with substance and compassion.' "

Full story here http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124648089

[goclark]

6. Coffee Party sounds like fun to me! nt

[Kind of Blue]

9. Yeah, it kind of does. But I hesitate

because she (Park) doesn't mind conversing with Tea Party members in order to get better representative Congress people. It's just hard for me to wrap my head around doing that at this point :grr: But I'm also guessing that different chapters will have different ideas about mixing with Tea Partyers.

[goclark]

10. Thanks for opening my eyes

wider.

[FrenchieCat]

7. I joined this weekend, and will be going "for Coffee" at the next

Coffee party available near me.

I watched the C-Span conversation they were having and they were discussing Election Public Financing, and using our power as the people to get changes done in Congress, but not by being
a mob, but by inviting various members of Congress for a conversation over Coffee. They are not
interested in starting a 3rd party, but rather working with the parties we have to enact change.

They appear the exact opposite of the Tea party folks.

[supernova]

8. I hope that's true

I joined the CP in a nominal sense on FB because it did seem like the TBs needed a rational counterpart. (Never mind that they completely missed the point of the original Tea Party.)

I really want to see the CP do great things, but like the rest of you I can't get a good focus on what they actually are.