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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCollege Republicans considering a lawsuit against bar for refusing to host "Beers 4 Brett" party
University of Washington College Republicans president Chevy Swanson
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/college-republicans-flip-threaten-sue-local-bar-refusing-host-pro-kavanaugh-kegger/
Local news station KIRO 7 reports that Seattle bar Shultzys Bar and Grill told the College Republicans over the weekend that it would not host their planned Beers 4 Brett party on the grounds that it is a sports bar that does not endorse any particular political viewpoint.
A group of 15 of the College Republicans went to the bar anyway to have drinks and were permitted to stay without incident.
Despite this, the chapter is still considering a lawsuit against Shultzys for not wanting to serve as the official host of their celebration.
Its very disheartening just to see something like this would get shut down, or be asked to shut down for not any good reason, complained University of Washington College Republicans president Chevy Swanson.
However, constitutional law expert Jeffery Needle tells KIRO 7 that, so long as Shultzys has a blanket policy of refusing to officially host all political events, its very likely in the clear.
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College Republicans considering a lawsuit against bar for refusing to host "Beers 4 Brett" party (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Oct 2018
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LiberalFighter
(51,103 posts)1. I hope the bar carded everyone at that event.
Stallion
(6,476 posts)2. No "Good Reason"? They Had a Perfectly Legal Reason-they Don't Endorse Any Particular Political View
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)3. Entitled brats
What if I told them that it would violate my deeply held religious beliefs? I wonder if that would sway them? No?
Republicans: discrimination and rights for me, not for thee.
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)4. I guarantee
they're all really shitty tippers too.
Paladin
(28,276 posts)5. Yeah, let's all boo-hoo for Herr Swanson and his fellow thugs.
Is Herr Swanson wearing a red arm-band to go with that military-cut black shirt?
Bluepinky
(2,276 posts)6. Chevy Swanson looks like a young Brett Kavanaugh after a few too many.
If Brett is the person these privileged brats aspire to, theyre hopeless. Im sure their parents are very proud of them.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,343 posts)7. He looks like Eric trump but with worse teeth (if that is possible)
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)8. Is he related to Tucker Carlson?
Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson
andym
(5,445 posts)9. Conservative Supreme Court says private businesses can deny whomever they like
Too bad for these would be litigants.