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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP scrambling to pay for Jacksonville convention after Trump yanked it from North Carolina: report
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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/gop-scrambling-to-pay-for-jacksonville-convention-after-trump-yanked-it-from-north-carolina-report/
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According to a report from the New York Times, Republican officials are having difficulties getting donors to pay for the Republican National Convention to be held in Jacksonville, Florida after Donald Trump yanked the gathering out of Charlotte, North Carolina in a fit of pique over COVID-19 health restrictions.
At issue, the report notes, is that millions of dollars were spent in North Carolina where a smaller event will now be held, and now the party is, in essence, forced to pay for a second convention....
According to the report, Organizers are trying to assuage vexed Republicans who collectively gave millions of dollars for a Charlotte event that has mostly been scrapped. The host committee there has spent virtually all of the $38 million it raised before the convention was moved, leaving almost nothing to return to donors, or to pass on to the new host city.
Fear of funding a convention that could contribute to the COVID-19 spread is weighing heavily on some donors who are taking a wait-and-see approach before writing another check.
Gothmog
(145,344 posts)crickets
(25,981 posts)It's emblematic of the party itself, really.
Rhiannon12866
(205,552 posts)And this is just another ego-inflating rally. How many U.S. cities does he still owe at last count??
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)The anti- Hyman Roth, Trump always loses money for his partners.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/06/24/trumps-company-tricked-investors-heres-how/86058802/
cojoel
(957 posts)(as opposed to Bigger than US Steel)
Or maybe "I'm a retired investor living on Russian pension".
chriscan64
(1,789 posts)"Separate checks!"
kentuck
(111,104 posts)Russia has plenty that needs laundering.
Mopar151
(9,989 posts)Energy prices in the toilet.
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)dem4decades
(11,297 posts)Unless they're saving for the funeral.
malaise
(269,066 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)"has spent virtually all"
How much has Ivanka skimmed off for the family?
central scrutinizer
(11,652 posts)Came off the top?
Hulk
(6,699 posts)..and Steve Wynn..a couple of greedy cretins.
NNadir
(33,528 posts)...impaired person with no core values, lifelong racist attitudes and a history of criminality. The members of their sect in the Senate voted, with one exception, to ignore his crimes, refusing even to hear witnesses.
These people are a cancer on America; and the extent to which the cancer is weakened and self destructs, the better it is for all of us.
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)dreamland
(964 posts)Think of how much of that donation money went into their own pockets and to do it again by "finding" another site.
onethatcares
(16,173 posts)some of those companies may have gotten a big slice of the rebuilding trillions without being named.
Geeez, like this maladminstration would allow any criminality or skimming.
mnmoderatedem
(3,728 posts)you mean haphazardly yanking a major event and relocating it during a pandemic on the whim of a crazy man causes logistical and monetary problems?
Who woulda thunk....
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)But I'm not sure they even use wheels.
Nevilledog
(51,128 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)then stand back and be mesomerized.
northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)Zambero
(8,964 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Traildogbob
(8,761 posts)Are they struggling with. Their election accounts are stoked with hundreds of millions, and like last night, we tax payers are paying for his KKKlan Jamboree rallies. Just like last night. Why the hell are taxpayers paying for racist KKKlan rallies that are supported by a few idiots that dwell in the bowels of our society? Fuck this whole shit show of everything tied to anything trump. Independence Day will need to be moved to January 2021 inauguration. If we are alive or even a country, Putin willing.
angrychair
(8,702 posts)The convention was still months away and they had already spent $83 million dollars on something that hadn't happened yet.
$83 million dollars. How the hell do you spend that much money for an event months away?
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)Metro135
(359 posts)Susan Collins finds this "troubling"
unc70
(6,115 posts)cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)That never happened?
There should have been plenty of time to get deposits back and they couldn't have spent more than a couple of months putting things together, and how many people would that take, maybe 25 people for 3 months at $6,000 each on average...that's only $450,000.
Hopefully someone is following the money here as there is some obvious fraud occurring in this number.
No wonder the donors don't want to give more money.
struggle4progress
(118,298 posts)LizBeth
(9,952 posts)predicted to be a flop and another embarrassment for him. Wouldn't that be an hoot after wasting the money on NC?
Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)Hekate
(90,719 posts)They saw what he was. They knew what he was. Even as late as the RNC in 2016, their modern equivalent of the cigar-chomping powers-that-be in the smoke-filled back rooms could have disqualified him as a candidate.
But noooo. They thought they could profit from this *hole. They dreamed of a 100% conservative SCOTUS. They thought they could control this monster, and it turned out they could not.
Then last year the Democratic House under Nancy Pelosi handed him off to the GOP Senate on a godsdamn silver platter, and they still chose to keep him.
Let him decide he doesnt like JAX and pick some other unlucky town. I hope he ends up bankrupting the GOP. Its morally bankrupt as it is. But I hope Trump just takes it all down in smoking ruins.
struggle4progress
(118,298 posts)Remember: chaos and confusion is our friend! We movin this whole shitshow shebang to Florida! Nobody will ever catch on cuz then they just look dumb!
calimary
(81,325 posts)And Joe Biden out-raised him last month, too!
Just proves republi-CONS dont know anything about wise planning and expenditure of public money. And that IS public money. It comes from donations if you follow the money trail.
Takket
(21,581 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Trump or the GOP that is too great.