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Lady Gaga turned down $1 million to perform at RNC
Washington Examiner ^ | 3/31/2013 | Susan Ferrechio

Posted on 04/01/2013 3:28:17 PM PDT by markomalley

Not even a million dollars could convince Lady Gaga to perform at last summer's Republican National Convention.

The snub by the pop star is included in a lawsuit filed by a powerful Republican nonprofit fundraising organization, American Action Network, against a vendor whose job was to stage entertainment just outside the doors to the GOP's convention in August.

Documents filed with the lawsuit show that other entertainers also said "no thanks" to appearing at the GOP convention including Dolly Parton and the rapper Pitbull, who Republicans hoped to feature at an event for the Hispanic Leadership Network.

Many entertainers, including Journey and Lynyrd Skynyrd, agreed to perform at the convention, but Lady Gaga's offer was the most lucrative, according to an email sent last summer by AAN's director of development, Pete Meachum.

"See what it would take to get Gaga instead of Dolly," Meachum requests of Rob Jennings, who heads Cater America LLC, an event production company based in Wyoming.

Jennings, whose company is being sued by AAN, was instructed by Meachum to try to make the offer to Lady Gaga more tempting by telling her it would be an event "honoring women who run for public office."

Meachum, who is a former aide to House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy and is now chief of staff for Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., wanted Lady Gaga to perform on Monday, Aug. 27, the evening of the convention's first official day.

"Also, tell them that $150,000 will go towards a domestic violence shelter," Meachum further instructed Jennings in an effort to make the offer harder for Lady Gaga to refuse.

American Action Network is a 501c(4) organization headed by former Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., and raises money to support GOP candidates for House seats. The organization is suing Cater America in an effort to recover $350,000 that AAN officials say they lost in part when a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert arranged by Cater America was canceled. The concert could not take place because Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency as Hurricane Isaac churned toward Tampa.

In the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, AAN says most of the money it seeks represents a loan that Jennings has failed to repay.

Cater America plans to countersue, saying AAN reneged on a deal to pay $500,000 for the rock band Journey, which performed a 90-minute set on Aug. 30, the final night of the convention, and for other expenses incurred by Cater America that it says AAN had promised to cover.

Cater America also contends AAN violated an agreement not to give away tickets. National Republican Congressional Committee Executive Director Guy Harrison was among the NRCC staff who attended a Kid Rock concert put on by Cater America on Aug. 29. American Action Network spokesman Dan Conston told The Washington Examiner that AAN "invited some close personal friends from nongovernmental organizations on a personal basis."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: really; seriously; wtfh
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Heard this on Limbaugh today and am surprised that it wasn't posted already.

WTF.

The RNC attempt even hire her is yet another demonstration of exactly WHY the GOP is dead to me.

1 posted on 04/01/2013 3:28:17 PM PDT by markomalley
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I think you got taken.


2 posted on 04/01/2013 3:29:24 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: markomalley

GOP/RIP


3 posted on 04/01/2013 3:29:46 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: markomalley

Is this an April fools joke?


4 posted on 04/01/2013 3:30:17 PM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (God help the Republic but will he?)
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Who the hell would WANT this transgender enuch freak?


5 posted on 04/01/2013 3:30:29 PM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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To: markomalley

I heard this as well, and I call bovine excrement, or April Fools.


6 posted on 04/01/2013 3:30:38 PM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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Who the hell would WANT this transgender no talent hack of a enuch freak?
7 posted on 04/01/2013 3:31:31 PM PDT by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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"American Action Network is a 501c(4) organization headed by former Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn. . . ."

Enough said.
8 posted on 04/01/2013 3:33:48 PM PDT by TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl
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To: Empireoftheatom48

Lady Kaka is an April Fool’s joke that just keeps going on and on.

The performer is really a guy dressed up in drag. Ru-Paul was more convincing.


9 posted on 04/01/2013 3:34:02 PM PDT by alloysteel (Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.)
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To: TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl

Lady Gaga worth more like a max of $100/hour.


10 posted on 04/01/2013 3:36:06 PM PDT by OldArmy52 (The question is not whether Obama ever lies, but whether he ever tells the truth.)
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To: markomalley

DITTO!!!!!!


11 posted on 04/01/2013 3:36:21 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (Welcome to the new America.)
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Why would the RNC invite the moron?


12 posted on 04/01/2013 3:36:42 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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Only 6 hours and 24 minutes left until it’s April 2.


13 posted on 04/01/2013 3:37:23 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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Is this an April fools joke?

It almost has to be!

14 posted on 04/01/2013 3:37:56 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (Welcome to the new America.)
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To: alloysteel

15 posted on 04/01/2013 3:38:03 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: markomalley

Governor Palin, the leader of the conservative wing of the GOP, would have spoken for free.


16 posted on 04/01/2013 3:38:20 PM PDT by ansel12 (The lefts most effective quote-I'm libertarian on social issues, but conservative on economics.)
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I think you got taken.

I checked. If this is an April Fool's gag, it is very, very elaborate hoax. See here for some source documentation.

17 posted on 04/01/2013 3:38:30 PM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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Again, source documents.
18 posted on 04/01/2013 3:39:21 PM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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What the Hell are they doing? I'd have a better chance getting Kate Upton's phone number than the RNC would getting Lady Gaga there. Besides, why would they WANT that there?

Stop trying to be cool. Be who you are.

19 posted on 04/01/2013 3:39:54 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (If most people were more than keyboard warriors, we might have won the election)
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To: markomalley

The GOPe has no soul.


20 posted on 04/01/2013 3:40:27 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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