Posted on 10/05/2023 9:04:55 AM PDT by grundle
FOXBORO - It is one of the most anticipated games in college football and this year it is being played at Gillette Stadium. The Army-Navy game will make its Foxboro debut on December 9th.
American presidents often attend, but you can be certain tens of thousands of veterans will pour into the greater Boston area. Tickets to the game sell out quickly and hotel rooms become a hot commodity.
That's why it was all the more troubling when Mark Mansbach, a travel agent out of New Jersey, started getting calls from clients that their hotel rooms for the game were being canceled. He decided to call the hotels his agency was partnering with for the game.
"They were leasing out the hotels to the state of Massachusetts for refugees," Mansbach said he was told. It was the response from three hotels owned by Giri Hotel Management, according to Mansbach.
The company, he explained, was working with the state to house migrants under the right to shelter law. His clients' previously booked hotel rooms were canceled to continue the lease with the state. Mansbach said at least 70 of his reservations were impacted.
In a statement to WBZ-TV Thursday, a Giri Hotel Management spokesperson didn't address the cancelations directly, saying they're committed "to providing shelter and support to refugees at our hotels."
"As a gesture of solidarity and humanitarian responsibility, we are opening our doors to those seeking refuge in our community," the statement read. "We look forward to working with local authorities and organizations to ensure a smooth transition for all those who will call our hotels home during their time with us."
Mansbach said in his two decades of experience, he had never heard of something like this happening.
"I have never had a hotel take rooms back and give me nothing. They sent out cancellations and walked away," Mansbach told WBZ. "Some people (clients) have decided not to go, and others found space in Boston. Some I have been able to put into other hotels that I had space left in."
Governor Maura Healey spoke about the issue Wednesday afternoon.
"I am very distressed to learn that any veteran may have been moved from a hotel, who had booked a hotel for that game," Healey said. "As I understand it, those were decisions made by area hotels."
Healey said she instructed the Office of Veteran Services to look into the matter. The agency told WBZ Wednesday it was in contact with the parties involved to pinpoint any veteran who was still in need of a room.
Eff those freeloading invading usurpers and the scum that prioritize them!
How about persons who go to Patriot games????
Massachusetts “right to shelter law” —> Screw veterans. Screw the military. Screw law-abiding, tax-paying Americans. Screw paying customers with legitimate reservations.
Yay illegal invaders!! Go invaders!!!
When will enough be enough? Everybody is SO sick of this nonstop sh!t.
Texas needs to send more busses loaded with illegals to Boston. Let them feel the love for their leaders.
Let’s start by refusing to attend something as inconsequential as a stupid football game — especially one involving two military academies of a country you don’t even recognize anymore.
I see a new situation on the horizon:
People renting out bedrooms for weekends when the Patriots play.
Wait until the state is later & later in paying for the ‘leases’.
That has been happening for some years.
MY CHIROPRACTOR no longer takes new Medicare customers.
Her accounts receivable with the Feds went from 90 days to 270....and more. She couldn’t deal with that.
Do the refugees get free tickets to attend the game?
Don’t see that happening.
Ticket sales & concessions pay for players & other team expenses.
Could be a long range plan to destroy American entertainment / sports
They would be staying three nights maximum. The scum underwritten by the G will never leave. So this was more an economic decision. Wait till the hotel’s insurer gets the damage claims.
Won’t be an issue.
Deep State will make it good with taxpayer money.
Just like it has with Big Pharma, Big Med, Big Auto, Big Biz, Deep State has just bought off Big Hospitality.
And just like the others, Big Hospitality is happy to take our money.
To Hades with them.
We’ll use B&Bs or campgrounds.
“Texas needs to send more busses loaded with illegals to Boston.”
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And a few bus loads up to Martha’s Vineyard.
it was traditionally in Philly ... the old JFK stadium held 100,000 people ...
At some point I stopped giving a damn. They could play on the moon, for all I care.
I now refer to them as mugrants!
The Army-Navy game will make its Foxboro debut on December 9th.
The game is in December. The hotels are giving ample notice to the customers that they are bumping their booking.
There are lots and I mean lots of place to stay news Foxboro Mass. They host 10 plus NFL football games every year and even handled the Taylor Swift concert.
If you are flying in for the Army Navy game, you are not poor and can afford the alternative accommodations you can find. Hell we got lots of hotel rooms here in Portland Maine for them, only 3 hours to Foxboro.
Healey said she instructed the Office of Veteran Services to look into the matter. The agency told WBZ Wednesday it was in contact with the parties involved to pinpoint any veteran who was still in need of a room.
What is the Office of Veteran Service going do? This is not the government’s problem.
Maura Healey Queer is the cause of this problem—as well as of many other problems in Massachusetts and beyond!
Where’s Newman?
I don’t like her either, but no MA governor is going to send the illegals back over the border or even send them out of the state. Massachusetts is like that.
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