An Open Challenge to Claire Ryder Of The Denver Greens
July 6th, 2008
I’ve been amused to discover that word has it Ms. Claire Ryder of the Denver Greens is a bit of a drinker.
Okay, word has it that she’s known for appearing falling down fucking drunk at organizational meetings, refusing to appear in public without her ubiquitous Sprite bottle full of vodka, and, to the great dis-ease of all around her, not above the casual groping of whatever young man happens to be in reaching distance of her greasy paws. Indeed, there is some speculation that her alcoholism might be responsible for her recent selling out to the corporate activists over at CodePink and United for Peace and Justice.
But, you know me, dear reader. I am nothing if not a believer in unity. As such, I would like to offer this gesture of friendship to Ms. Ryder:
You’re a tippler, dear, as am I. There’s nothing I enjoy so much as a good cocktail, and I am a great believer in the sacred visionary qualities of strong liquor. As such, I’d like to challenge you to an old-fashioned drinking contest.
We’ll meet up at one of the few little dives left in this fast-gentrifying hellhole — some joint lacking in natural light, where the entire human heart can be beheld in all its obscene glory — and then, dear, it’s just me and you. I’ll let you pick the drink as long as I can pick the music — Billy Joe Shaver, naturally – and whoever hits the fucking floor first loses.
If you win, I’ll shut down the Try-Works. Immediately, and without protest.
But if I win, if I win, you tell me Adam Jung(k)’s badge number.
Sound fair?
Update: I’m behind the times, as several readers have been emailing me to point out. Ms. Ryder no longer gets her checks from CodePink, but from the Denver Greens. Post fixed. In my defense I have only to offer that when it comes to sleazy, neo-cop, middling, liberal, leftist groups, I never could tell ‘em the fuck apart.
July 6th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Tertiam Gaudens
July 7th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Sheeeit, Bennie. Can I tend bar for this one? C’mon, purty please? Can I?
July 7th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Absolutely, Rockabilly. As fast as you can pour ‘em.
And, I believe that’s tertius gaudens, Tyndale. What’s your point?
July 7th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
a hahaha ha .
Some people like to give lots of hugs.
July 7th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Claire is Green not Pink. I am not refering to the color she turns when she drinks, I mean she is a Green Party Chairperson, not a Code Pink representative. Either way, she is a fuck-up who is helping destroy the community.
P.S. Would love to know the little pigs badge number, good luck!
July 7th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Complicated. If it is self-contained, friends and allies do a favor by intervening with a drunk. If the person is representing a movement, they need to confront it in a semi-private spot, like here, before they go and breathe on a reporter from that NY Post- style paper you all have. Or who’s that embarrassing journalist, Charlie something
If there were any exaggeration or rumor here, there a twingle of ageism could be involved, because nobody ever confronts a sorority age kid. However, that’s unlikely if even drinkers can see the problem.
McCain is a high stakes dice roller. His associates don’t like to admit it.
July 7th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Yeah, Bennie, whatever DID become of Charlie Brennan anyhow?
And, Mr. Freed? I seem to recollect that combining pinks and greens was supposed to be somewhere near the height of fashion, clothes-wise, a couple of years back. Are you saying the it still is, at least where “alternative politics” are concerned?
Pretty sick combo, either way.
July 7th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Help me out here, folks. If these morons are supposed to be greens, how come they all look so white?
July 7th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Barry Freed?! Fucking hilarious. Seriously Glenn, you’re no Abbie Hoffman.
July 8th, 2008 at 8:51 am
I don’t know what the hell happened to Brennan, Rockabilly. Canned from the Rocky, off to Fox 31, now canned from there, I believe. Hoisted by his own petard, as they say.
And, for the record, Hilda, I have no interest in intervening with Ms. Ryder to stop her from drinking. Quite the opposite, my interest is in drinking her into an alcoholic coma.
July 8th, 2008 at 9:36 am
I do read this blog since it post info about me, but as many know, including Adam Jungk, who I suppose 40 years is, I always use my real name when I blog.
July 8th, 2008 at 11:10 am
For the record, Abbie Hoffman was no Abbie Hoffman either, Ms. 40.
Now go back to diddling yourself with the fantasy that might be ahead on anything other than your daily calory intake. Righty-right?
July 8th, 2008 at 11:18 am
If we’re picking, I wanna be Uncle Bill.
July 8th, 2008 at 11:21 am
To borrow a chop from the late and indisputably great Steve Biko, white folks ain’t exactly white, Brainy. They’re more of a sickly pink complection, actually. Which means that according to the race code they constructed as a means of rationalizing white supremacism, CodePink translates as meaning Think White. Follow?
The whole thing should leave you pea green with nausea.
August 14th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
thanks for confirming my instincts that some recent Green Party tempest in a teapot was due at least partially to this one
thanks to Cynthia McKinney, and Rosa Clemente’s hip-hop movement ties, people like Claire are becoming outed within the party as well
if it’s about telling others what to do, it’s not green, but people who like to tell others what to do will come to power in any org, regardless of the lack of pay, fame, or fortune involved