Florence Snyder
The GOP can preach a great game about private property rights, but can’t always play it at a major-league level.
This week, the Cape Coral Republican Club got booted from its regular meeting place at Duffy’s Sports Grill. Club President Bob Davies thinks it’s because “Some Democrats must have complained.”
Duffy’s president Jason Emmett counters that the Cape Coral Club has lately been unable to curb is enthusiasm and confine its political talk to the private party room in which it’s been holding meetings for over three years. The group has been “migrating into dining areas and bothering people who just want to eat or watch a game on TV … and enjoy themselves and not feel bothered” by partisan politics, Emmett told News-Press political writer Betty Parker.
Emmett’s explanation seems reasonable, and in any event, it’s a business decision that he has the right to make.
In less partisan, paranoid times, it would not have been even slightly controversial.
