It's First Friday

First Friday returns to Union Pub this Friday, November 4th from 5:30 – 9:00 pm. We’ll have an appearance from a “Big” special guest. Be there or be talked about.

Special Guest: Andrew Breitbart

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Oct 28

Roll Call’s ‘Heard on the Hill’ previews It’s First Friday

Partisan soirees are nothing new. But only those ideologues who soldier into the First Friday fete at Union Pub will be able to show off blurry, totally staged Facebook pics of themselves twisting anti-tax bogeyman Grover Norquist’s arm (for a change) WHILE sucking down frosty brews subsidized by the Washington Times.

The conservative happy hour — which now boasts similar booze fests in Las Vegas, Phoenix, Boulder, Denver and Columbus, Ohio — tries to throw its politics-obsessed members a bone the first weekend of every month.

But today’s shindig marks the first time that someone else has offered to pick up at least part of the tab (God bless the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Oh wait, He already has.) FF Co-Director Rich Counts says the Washington Times bankrolled an open bar for the DC Young Republicans’ Aug. 8 meeting at the Capitol Hill Club and, having enjoyed the experience so much, volunteered to open its wallet again tonight. The open bar will flow from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. (Guess circulation’s gone up?)

Norquist will be on hand for either his third (or fourth — nobody’s quite sure) guest spot. And while the indefatigable coalition builder suspects talk of taxes/grass-roots activism/the 2012 elections will invariably bubble up, Norquist attempted to downplay the wonkiness of it all.

“It sounds like you’re going to a meeting when, really, you’re drinking with your buddies in a bar,” Norquist assures HOH.

House Republican Conference speech writer and FF Co-Director Thomas Qualtere, on the other hand, is bracing for conservative anarchy.

“Over the past year, especially for our ‘special edition’ First Fridays, we’ve filled the venue wall to wall. This one, needless to say, will come close to bursting it at the seams,” he predicts.

Check out the full article by Roll Call’s Warren Rojas.

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Sep 30

The Washington Times Joins It’s First Friday

This Friday October 7th, help us welcome “America’s Newspaper,” The Washington Times, in co-sponsorship of “DC’s Top Conservative Happy Hour.”

Yes, you read that right. The Washington Times and First Friday will be teaming up to present the most exciting happy hour experience of the year. The action will take place at Union Pub and begin at 5:30 pm. The open bar will be limited, and the crowd will be massive, so come early and be ready to kick off your weekend the ‘right’ way—with an icy cold beverage (or several) and guaranteed good company to go with it.

For this special edition of First Friday, we also welcome back famed TV commentator and activist extraordinaire, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist. As the man behind the anti-tax pledge Newsweek says “has transformed American politics,” Mr. Norquist is a longtime FF-fan and will be happy to chat, take a picture, or just have a drink with you.

*** PLUS: Pick up a special wristband from a FF host (Rich or Tom) while you’re at Union Pub and receive one free drink at George in Georgetown later in the night. In accordance with George’s door policy, you must RSVP on Facebook to attend. ***

Friday. 10/7. 5:30 pm. Union Pub. Be there or be talked about.

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Aug 30