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Mayor Sylvester Turner announced on Wednesday that the city has canceled the Texas Republican Partys in-person state convention in downtown Houston next week.
Houston First, the public nonprofit that serves as the citys convention arm, sent a letter to the partys executive committee notifying it that the convention has been canceled.
The letter triggers a part of the contract called a force majeure clause, which allows one side to cancel for an occurrence out of its control. The definition included epidemics in the City of Houston, according to the Houston First letter.
Earlier Wednesday, Texas Republican Party officials said they were preparing for a legal fight after Turner said the Houston First and the city attorneys office would review its contract with the party for using the George R. Brown Convention Center for the convention July 16-18.
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Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)walkingman
(7,626 posts)and hopefully they would all get the virus - it would be so appropriate but it would endanger the general public because you just know the GOP thinks they are all scientists and don't give a shit about anyone but themselves.