Election season continues to ramp up, and the media is constantly putting Capitol Hill's campaigners under the magnifying glass. However, at Off The Record, the discrete bar within the historic Hay-Adams Hotel on Washington's Lafayette Square, these would-be figureheads are being put somewhere more satisfying: under cocktail glasses.
Off The Record introduced colorful coasters by award-winning illustrators and cartoonists
Photo Credit: Courtesy The Hay-Adams
The Off The Record bar at The Hay-Adams hotel is introducing collectible coasters featuring caricatures of some of 2016's presidential hopefuls. No word on whether they have started referring to bottled water as "The Rubio."
Photo Credit: Courtesy The Hay-Adams
Off The Record introduced colorful coasters by award-winning illustrators and cartoonists.
Photo Credit: Courtesy The Hay-Adams
Inspired by the artwork on display – decades of caricatures of the political elite amassed by J. Arthur Wood Jr. and now acquired by the Library of Congress – Off The Record introduced colorful coasters by award-winning illustrators and cartoonists. The latest Washington newsmakers commissioned to join the set – which already features the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bushes and more – are presidential candidates Scott Walker, Bernie Sanders and Marco Rubio, as drawn by Pulitzer Prize winner Matt Wuerker. These conversation-starting coasters will help assure their subjects are held accountable for any messes made on their watch.
And if you're looking for insight into which would-be nominees are frontrunners in 2016, forget straw polls. Even swizzle stick and tiny umbrella polls won't match the statistical analysis Off The Record promises.
"Come election time, we will be able to provide some accurate polling in Washington based on the popularity of which coasters are requested most frequently by visitors, which should also make for some lively debate here as well," said The Hay-Adams Vice President and General Manager Hans Bruland in a news release.
Additional coasters will be rolled out in late October, so guests wanting to add to their collection are invited to pull up a chain and filibuster regularly. Just, please, don't argue about amending the bill.
