Jim Tumbls.

Here’s one for Pletka & Co…

lehighvalley:

While I’ve only been to the Blue Monkey in Catasauqua a few times, I always thought it was a pretty decent sports bar, a good change of pace to the chains or once I see on a regular basis.

Hell, Obama even mentioned the owner of the place in a speech. He was like “so, this guy owns blue monkey and he employees people, totally awesome.”

Yeah, not for some, apparently the town hates it. Well, the people in town who don’t drink or are all about “the law.”

In March, President Obama sang the praises of Brian Conrad and his Blue Monkey Sports Restaurant during a White House event that highlighted successful entrepreneurs.

This week, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board rejected the renewal of the liquor license of the North Catasauqua sports bar, a process in the works even as Conrad sat in the West Wing and told the president, business leaders and administration officials his story of turning a lost job into a thriving business.

”Brian is sitting right there, so I don’t want to embarrass him here, but it’s a great story,” Obama said at a ceremony less than an hour later. ”He lost his job, but he found his calling and started, you know, doing all kinds of work on a restaurant called the Blue Monkey, which now employs some 40 people in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley.”

Just two months earlier, on Jan. 13, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board took testimony on whether the Howertown Road hot spot should be allowed to continue to serve alcohol.

Liquor enforcement officials’ objections: a citation for selling alcohol to minors, and 16 incidents reported to local police of fights, intoxicated patrons and loud music, said Francesca Chapman, a liquor control spokeswoman.

In a letter dated Wednesday, the board notified Blue Monkey of its decision to deny the license renewal. A day later, a lawyer for the restaurant filed an appeal in Northampton County Court, and called the decision one of the worst he’s seen. Source

Calm the fuck down Catasauqua. You put him out of business, someone else comes in, snatches up the liquor license and probably does worse things than you can imagine.

I mean, fuck, it’s not exactly like the population of Catty has ever been accused of being “posh.” They are going to drink, get rowdy and scream and yell whether it is at the Blue Monkey or the Brass Monkey, so just shut up, arrested the fuckers who cause problems and get off the Blue Monkey Back just cause they served some underagers.