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'Drinking Liberally' Club & The Shanty: A Messy Break-up that Was Long Overdue

'Drinking Liberally' Club & The Shanty: A Messy Break-up that Was Long Overdue

Double-booking The Shanty patio leads to DL looking for a new home for lively political chitchat.

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Pamela Powers
Jul 21, 2014
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'Drinking Liberally' Club & The Shanty: A Messy Break-up that Was Long Overdue
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Why didn't they break up sooner? 

Isn't that what the friends say when a dysfunctional relationship finally ends? That is how I feel about the recent messy divorce between Drinking Liberally Tucson (DL) and The Shanty. For nearly a decade, Drinking Liberally* had been meeting once a week on the patio of The Shanty but not after a horrid mess on the patio…

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