Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11) - The National Coffee Party Convention is headed to Louisville, with a focus on talking.
Coffee Party founder Annabel Park is visiting Louisville from the west coast.
Park says she wanted an alternative after seeing the noisy debate on health care reform.
“Democracy should feel like a collaboration, not a football game with two teams,” Park said. “So, it's important that we can leave our ideology at the door and really dig into the problems and problem solve and work together.”
Park founded the Coffee Party in January. She recently met with some of her followers at Sonoma Coffee Cafe on Poplar Level Road.
Park says the Coffee Party works with the government to solve issues -- and leaves party ideology out of the conversation.
It's caught the attention of others across the country and in Louisville.
“We're talking at each other; we're not talking to each other in the political climate,” Coffee Party member Ronald Moore said. “There's so much screaming. I'm afraid a lot of people don't know what they're actually screaming about.”
The Coffee Party National Convention is scheduled in Louisville for September 24 through the 26 at the Galt House.
