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The red-state politics of Tennessee and Utah make Nashville and Salt Lake City particularly attractive sites for the party.
By NATALIE ALLISON, DAVID SIDERS and HOLLY OTTERBEIN
02/04/2022 01:25 PM EST
Updated: 02/04/2022 06:15 PM EST
SALT LAKE CITY Salt Lake Citys pitch this week for the 2024 Republican National Convention seemed to be going well. There were the helicopter rides, Wagyu steaks and tours of facilities built for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Then the local TV weatherman took the floor at the host committees luncheon Tuesday.
After talking about the regions ideal summer weather and low humidity compared to the three other finalist cities Milwaukee, Nashville and Pittsburgh he began showing footage of ping-pong ball-sized hail and flood waters gushing through the city as trash bins floated along. He brought up the tornado of August 1999 assuring the RNC site selection committee members that only one person died in the event.
Some in the audience watched aghast, said one member of the committee, which is tasked with selecting the city that will host the partys next presidential nominating convention. The member, who asked not to be identified, chuckled recounting the presentation as did three other people present at the luncheon.
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MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)GAWD, who would want THAT crowd here for anything? I'm thinking that it might have been like hosting the Olympics - the 'cost' would FAR outweigh the 'benefits.'
Efilroft Sul
(3,579 posts)Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)They had themselves a good old book burning in eastern TN. This ought to be a full on nazi display.
Damn. I like Nashville.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)We're Sad in Stumptown.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)CanonRay
(14,103 posts)would want this collection of traitors, grifters, morons, Klansmen, and lunatics loose in their city?
MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)what some asked of the newly-elected Democratic mayor of Pittsburgh - and also asked the same of the County Executive, also a Democrat.
Strange times indeed.......
Mopar151
(9,983 posts)In online porn consumption, per capita. Throw in some "jack Mormons" and "sovereign citizens", I could'nt think of a place that would like them more!
keithbvadu2
(36,809 posts)Make a decision, GQP.
The prostitutes need to make travel arrangements.
Wounded Bear
(58,660 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,363 posts)of turning out like the Democratic Convention in Chicago of 1968, so I hope they hold it in a sparsely populated area, Utah would be best suited.
Thanks for the thread JoeOtterbein.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)That's how the GOP has done it in the past.