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F1’s Miami race sends cease and desist letter to Trump hoping to host fundraiser at the event
Washington Examiner ^ | April 27, 2024 | Brady Knox

Posted on 04/29/2024 2:59:28 AM PDT by mbrfl

The Miami Grand Prix sent a cease and desist letter to a prominent fundraiser of former President Donald Trump after he planned to use a suite for a fundraiser event.

The Formula One race sent the letter to Steven Witkoff, a close Trump ally, who had rented a suite at the race for fundraising purposes, multiple people familiar with the matter told the Washington Post.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: campaign; f1; miami; trump
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To: mewzilla
Hard to find info, so this one is from 2012, still interesting...

2024 F1 Race Over, but Debate on Subsidies Continues Austin's first Formula One race has been largely deemed a success. But state officials are still discussing whether to give as much as $250 million in tax subsidies to the race promoters.

It's good to have low friends in high places.

21 posted on 04/29/2024 5:34:27 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla
From 2018, and why do I think this was a modified limited hangout...

Revealed: The F1 Teams Fueled By $150 Million Of Government Money

And from 2023...

Who’s paying for F1? Las Vegas official says funding is unlike any other large Strip event

I think we know, eh?

Nice racket they got there.

22 posted on 04/29/2024 5:37:26 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mbrfl
I think there's just 1 small problem here...

The suite rented by Witkoff said in its terms that it cannot be used for “advertising, promotional or commercial purposes.

Every suite is being used to advertise and promote. Most of which is are the companies that paid big $$ to smooze clients and prop up their names.

Total bullshit.
23 posted on 04/29/2024 6:13:45 AM PDT by glaseatr (Father of a Marine, Uncle of SGT Adam Estep. A Co. 2/5 Cav. KIA Thurs April 29, 2004 Baghdad Iraq)
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To: Yo-Yo

You Ping running again?


24 posted on 04/29/2024 6:37:56 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: Yo-Yo

You Ping I ping we all ping for You Ping


25 posted on 04/29/2024 6:44:17 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Jarhead9297

Lots and lots of blm’ers in Nascar now too


26 posted on 04/29/2024 6:46:00 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Jarhead9297
who sip on their mimosas

Chablis. Mimosas are too American.

27 posted on 04/29/2024 7:27:32 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: mbrfl

Defund NPR.


28 posted on 04/29/2024 7:38:40 AM PDT by Leep (Leftardism strikes 1 in 5.)
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To: Yo-Yo

wonderful...


29 posted on 04/29/2024 8:09:50 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Lockbox
You Ping running again?

Ping running? No, it was an F1-related story so I pinged Chode's F1 ping list. If you would like off Chode's F1 ping list, just ask him to remove you.

30 posted on 04/29/2024 9:43:56 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: mbrfl

F1 was purchased by Liberty Media not that long ago. This is John Malone of TCI(became part of Sprint)-a former Ma Bell, General Instruments guy that went fr telecom to dot com, to owning Sirius, live Nation etc...these days.

Obv the intent was to increase the American market.

They brought racing back to our country.

Unf it is actually run by the arabs and Ferrari.

Thus far they have blocked Andretti/GM from joining.

The Vegas race included blocking views from parts of the strip via tarps.

Add in the denying of fund raising here and they can go back to being an uncompetitive boat racing pageant on the rest of the globe.


31 posted on 04/29/2024 11:30:13 AM PDT by Freest Republican
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To: Yo-Yo

LOL, I just was pinging you 🤣🤣🤣🤣


32 posted on 04/29/2024 11:32:09 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: Lockbox
LOL! If you ever see an F1 article that you think is ping-worthy, Chode has the ping list on his homepage. He's told everyone to go ahead and ping the group since he sometimes has health issues and might not be able to ping himself.

https://freerepublic.com/~chode/

You have to scroll a looooong way down to near the end of his page to find the F1 ping list.

33 posted on 04/29/2024 12:30:46 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: mbrfl

F1 is totally on board with left wing political messaging. Eff ‘em. F1 is pretty boring anyhow. It’s a closed club where Americans are discouraged. Eff ‘em twice.


34 posted on 04/29/2024 2:52:34 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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