Posted on 09/24/2025 2:11:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
hen President Joe Biden visited Santa Cruz County following the 2023 winter storms, residents responded with pure fanfare. People skipped work and lined the streets with thank-you signs, and parents took their children out of school just for a chance to see the presidential motorcade speed down Highway 1. Amid the wreckage of natural disasters that reshaped swaths of the county, enthusiasm followed Biden from his steps off Air Force One at the Watsonville airport, to the Capitola wharf and back again.
In the nearly three years since, the Biden aura has shifted — dramatically. People have increasingly laid the blame for President Donald Trump’s second term at the feet of Biden and his decision to seek reelection despite his advanced age and mental decline. Books, including a recent memoir by former vice president Kamala Harris, have also criticized Biden’s inner circle, including his wife, Jill, for trying to hide the reality of his health from the American people and other political leaders.
Given all of this, I was curious to see how our community would receive Jill Biden during her scheduled appearance at Santa Cruz’s Kaiser Permanente Arena this Saturday. Resentment? Contempt? Reverence? Forgiveness?
We will never know.
“An Evening with Dr. Jill Biden” has been canceled, and the reason why remains a mystery. The Santa Cruz Warriors basketball organization, host of the appearance, billed Jill’s speaking appearance as a “historic event” and began selling tickets in July.
Rumors have swirled. One solid source told me low ticket sales were to blame; others wondered whether the abrupt cancellation had to do with increased security concerns. The event was canceled one day after the public assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.
Chris Murphy, president of the Santa Cruz Warriors, denied that security concerns were to blame. He told Lookout “there were some unforeseen circumstances,” but declined to offer more detail.
“I’m not going to get into why,” Murphy said on the phone last week. “We don’t have to go into details with the public on every decision we make as an organization.”
Peggy Flynn, co-president of the Democratic Women’s Club of Santa Cruz County, said she had also reached out to Murphy after she fielded several confused calls and emails about the cancellation. Murphy told Flynn he “wasn’t sharing details at the request of the Biden relationship.”
Security problems? Why would there be any left wing violence?
Clintons just reduced the prices of the tickets when their sales were low. This must have been even worse.
“An Evening with Nurse Jill”
There. Fixed it.
Remember some people in crowds to see Joe or to see Kamala admitted they had been paid?
What if Soros’ son has turned frugal now and won’t pay for phony ticket holders for Jill’s venues?
They’d have to do that odd perspective of the cameras thing again to get the 7/8 empty seats out of the frame, and just magnify the 25 people near the front.
Old political saying (various amounts) “It’s better to squeeze 500 people into a place with 400 seats than have 1,000 people in a place meant for 5,000.”
I heard she had a stripper pole installed.
Elder abusers just aren’t as popular as they used to be.
LOL! I need to watch that.
They might have had to pay to get attendees and there’s not so much grifted dough in their pockets these days?
Haha. Couldnt fill a venue with the wife of the most popular president in history with the mentally instable leftovers from the 60’s.
This time next year we’ll see Jill doing commercials for Medicare supplemental insurance plans (assuming Joe Namath and Jimmie J.J. Walker are unavailable.)
In Santa Cruz?????
“...I am being totaly serious. Who would PAY to see Jill Biden?...”
Exactly.
In mnay places, one can just drive down the road a few miles and see all the white trailer trash they want....and it’s free!!!
That’s encouraging, thanx.
I actually lived there for 1 year ( 1965 /-)
Almost got flung off in to the bay off a ride on the boardwalk once.
3/4 of my body was out of the gondola and my father had a hold of my shirt , had it ripped I’d be dead probably.
I saw it maybe in the 70s. Wasn’t impressed. Lots of 1960s weirdness. I doubt it has aged well despite the odd joke that might bring a smile. Tom Jones singing the title song might be the most memorable thing about it. It gets a collective 6 out of 10 rating on IMDB which is maybe 1 or 2 above where I would put it. As always YMMV.
And I was so looking forward to her singing Eat That Rat.
We all paid to see Biden.
Dearly.
,,, you and I are halfway to being publicists!
😀
I thought that part of California had mild winters (??).
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