Texas GOP convention in Houston is canceled, Mayor Sylvester Turner announces

Houston Chronicle ^ | 7/8/20

[Meatspace]

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has instructed the Houston First Corporation to cancel the Texas Republican Party's convention slated to be held in person in Houston next week, the mayor announced on Twitter and in an afternoon press conference.

Asked why he waited so long to request the event be cancelled, Turner said he hoped the Republican Party would call off the convention first.

[SunkenCiv]

**** the ridiculous a-hole mayor and hold the convention in Houston.

[butlerweave]

so the Mayor controls the Houston First Corporation ?

[Meatspace]

Take the mayor to Court.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Easy Fix:
Call the George R. Brown Convention Center the Houston Autonomous Zone and rebrand the event the 2020 GOP Protest and Riot.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Take the mayor to Court.

The Illinois GOP did and SCOTUS refused their appeal.

[Jewbacca]

Go have it in Midland or somewhere consistently Republican.

[Da Coyote]

So, we can conclude that the mayor is a (slimy, two-timing, zero morals, low IQ, marshmallow-major) Democrat?

Could have saved key strokes by just typing “Democrat”.

Just looked it up, and a bonus, wanna know what race Democrat?

[Irenic]

So expected revenues should be deducted from any federal relief dollars Houston would get?

[butlerweave]

A Democrat cancelling a GOP convention ,yes take him to court and make him cry

[Huskrrrr]

A growing number of GOP Senators said they would not be attending.

[ptsal]

Protests are okay...

[backwoods-engineer]

But of course, Democrat state conventions are NOT cancelled. This is how they do it. Destroy churches by ordering them not to meet for months. Stop Republican conventions. As the diabolical Saul Alinsky wrote in his demonic masterpiece "Rules for Radicals": "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy."

[SecondAmendment]

Systemic big-city racism ...

[Reily]

That’s the Texas state convention. Only two Senators are likely to go to that.

[Savage Rider]

I thought that was the National GOP Convention.

[Raycpa]

[SecondAmendment]

These are they same people who will tally the mail in votes for the general election for the largest county in the state ...

[Huskrrrr]

My bad, sorry.

[OrangeHoof]

Go have it in Midland or somewhere consistently Republican.

Exactly. Tarrant County (Ft. Worth) will probably do but, if not there are some very large HS football stadiums in places like Ft. Bend County, Tarrant County, Brazos County, etc. that will do in a pinch.

I'm sure Jerry Jones would be glad to host it.