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Trouble brewing in Coffee Party

Starbucks’ instant coffee Via sells in 3-packs for $2.95 and in 12-packs for $9.95. (The Spokesman-Review)
Starbucks’ instant coffee Via sells in 3-packs for $2.95 and in 12-packs for $9.95. (The Spokesman-Review)

The Coffee Party, which launched last year to mild public curiosity in reaction to the Tea Party wave, has receded from public view -- in part because of a schism between its centrist leadership and some left-leaning grassroots.

The movement, co-founded by filmmaker named Annabel Park, was initially seen as a progressive alternative to the Tea Party.

As Newsweek reported of an early meeting, members "were angry. They hated the Tea Party, and the Republican Party. They wanted to get even."

Park, however, says she intended the group to be centrist and non-partisan. She at one point weighed legal action to prevent the left-leaning faction from using their copyrighted logo after Darrell Bouldin, a Tennessee-based activist, started an offshoot called "Coffee Party Progressives."  Read more here. Ben Smith, Politico.com

If you started a political party, what would you call it?



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.