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Starbucks claims that part of their mission is to create stronger communities and one of their big press claims is that they have a core committment to social responsibility. So why are they discouraging unobtrusive political participation in their stores by kicking out a meeting of college democrats?

NEWPORT -A group of Northern Kentucky Democrats who gathered to talk party politics were given the boot Wednesday night from a Newport Starbucks coffee shop.

According to several people who were at the gathering, two Starbucks employees approached the group while Campbell County Democratic Party Chairman Ken Mullikin was speaking shortly before 6 p.m.

The employees, who were described as stern by some and rude by others, told the 15 to 20 Democrats they had to leave the shop because it would not play host to a political gathering.

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