Posted on 08/29/2019 5:54:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Less than a month after Democrats across the country boycotted gyms and other companies owned by billionaire Trump fundraiser Stephen Ross, 10 Democratic presidential hopefuls will take the stage at one of Ross’ flagship developments for a forum on the climate crisis.
Ross raised $12 million for President Donald Trump, a climate crisis denier, at his $100,000-a-plate Hamptons event earlier this month. News of the elite conservative gathering prompted Democratic leaders, celebrities and everyday voters to announce they were boycotting Ross’ Equinox gym — but not, it seems, the new multibillion-dollar Hudson Yards skyscraper complex owned by Ross’ development firm, The Related Companies.
On Sept. 4, leading contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination will attend the primetime “town hall” at CNN’s office at 30 Hudson Yards, part of Related’s massive Westside Manhattan project, according to CNN staff members and a spokesperson for candidate Andrew Yang, who confirmed the location.
The choice of venue has angered activists and lawmakers. “It’s totally hypocritical,” said Food and Water Action New York organizer Laura Shindell. “You call people out when it’s trendy and then cozy up to those same big moneyed interests when nobody’s watching.
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Democrats are hypocrites?
You don’t say....
They don’t want to burn their bridges.
“Ross raised $12 million for President Donald Trump, a climate crisis denier,”
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no bias here s/
Apparently this Laura person is blind to all the so-called climate change blabbermouths who have their own jets, large power boats and huge mansions sucking up power.
Strange how she can see this one issue and not all the other hypocrisy.
You know what was funny
When Michael Moore cancelled his SoulCycle membership
Dan Bongino had it on his radio show at end, “let that sink in”
All of the Republicans in Hollywood I know of avoid the Equinox because its choc full of faggots and libtards. Now that the leftards avoid the place, there will be less of these assholes at the place.
I know you didn’t write the article, but there is a difference between liberals and radical leftists. I don’t think any true liberals exist anymore
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