Posted on 01/27/2010 6:06:44 PM PST by FTJM
Will Sarah Palin's Tea Party dinner be a bust?
Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips likely assumed that scoring a dinner speech by the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate would guarantee a huge turnout for his National Tea Party Convention, scheduled to start Feb. 4 at Nashville's Gaylord Opryland Hotel. But according to Tea Party insiders, the tickets for the Palin banquet aren't selling—and some conservative activists who have already paid to attend are now demanding refunds. With the controversial event shaping up to be a potential flop, some Tea Partiers are urging Palin to cancel her speech to avoid a humiliating public relations disaster.
(Excerpt) Read more at motherjones.com ...
Two things kept me from going. The cost in these uncertain times and February in Tennessee.
Banquet tickets are the only ones available at $349 + $9.71 handling fee............
You DO know that Mother Jones is pretty much a Communist publication...?
That's a lot of money for a rubber chicken dinner, even if Palin is the Speaker.
The Claremont Institute 30th Anniversary Dinner with Dick Cheney is just $250 a seat, and it's being held at a swanky Los Angeles Hotel.
As for me, I'm going to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference being held in New Orleans in April. Tickets are $200 for the entire event, including Sarah Palin’s Speech.
She will be one of many speakers there.
Mother Jones = Bagdad Bob
“There is nothing to see here...move along.”
$349/ for a banquet ticket? Sorry, that’s highway robbery. I wouldn’t go on principle.
About 2 days ago it was reported that tickets were completely sold out. Mother Jones is a leftwing rag. There appears to be a concerted and organized effort to try and discredit the convention, and discourage people from going. I wonder who would want to do that?
It’s just the Banquet. They’ll be there when she gives her speech.
Methinks the banquet will be full when she arrives :)
from the TEA Party Nation website:
THE FIRST NATIONAL TEA PARTY CONVENTION IS SOLD OUT BUT TICKETS TO THE BANQUET WITH GOV. PALIN ARE STILL AVAILABLE!!!!!
Banquet Only tickets (featuring keynote speaker Sarah Palin) still available!
Special Keynote Speaker for the event will be Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska (2006-2009) and 2008 Republican Vice Presidential Nominee.
Tea Party Nation is pleased to announce the First National Tea Party Convention. The convention is aimed at bringing the Tea Party Movement leaders together from around the nation for the purpose of networking and supporting the movement’s multiple organizations’ principal goals. This event is co-sponsored by other national groups that believe in a responsible and limited federal government that is responsive to all the people. Our Sponsors include Tea Party Emporium, Judicial Watch, Eagle Forum, The Leadership Institute, Vision America, SurgeUSA, Smart Girl Politics and National Taxpayers Union. Participants include: Tea Party Express, The Memphis Tea Party, The Voices of America.org, Young Americans for Freedom, The Evergreen/Conifer Tea Party, North Carolina Freedom Tea Party, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Joseph Farah, Angela McGlowan, Judge Roy Moore, Tom Fitton, Bruce Donnelly, Phil Valentine, Ana Puig, Steve Milloy, Mark Skoda, Keli Carender (aka Liberty Belle), Dr. B. Leland Baker, Walter Fitzgerald, Philip Glass, Dr. Rick Scarborough, David DeGerolamo and Lori Christenson
ding ding ding ding ding!!!
More than pretty much. I’m surprised FR allows posters to link and quote articles from there.
Haha, love your tag line :>)
Well, the word has clearly gone out to all the leftist rags: Sabotage the tea party convention.
But it ain’t gonna work. Do they really think that anyone who wanted to buy tickets to the dinner would be reading Mother Jones?
I know they have one devoted reader for sure. It’s like the Bible to one of my elderly aunts.
About 4 yrs ago I was visiting her and she told me if I wanted to know the real truth she had a couple of things for me to read.....one was Al Franken’s book, the other was a copy of MJ. LOL
McAmnesty is far from a Conservative position and she is now associated with him....it WILL be used against her, and she has to have a legitimate rationale for having done it (although there's some thought that it was a quid-pro-quo for the VP nod).
How these things work is that as a convention participant you get to hear the keynote speaker which is usually after the banquet, the banquet is extra. So this article is just plain wrong.
“So this article is just plain wrong.”
Thats Mother Jones.
:-)
What? Freepers here should be selling their cars to see her talk.
Uh, Mother Jones? Why should we assume they know anything about the Tea Party movement?
I wouldn’t pay $349 for a banquet ticket to hear anyone speak. What a rip off!
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