Tea Party's "Unity" convention postponed...

EriktheRed

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...but the real story is why:


The reasons given by the organizing committee include:

■“it would more advantageous to hold the convention in the middle of October just prior to the November elections.”
■“The heat in Las Vegas in July is keeping many who would like to participate from attending.”
■“We have also received numerous emails from people who were forced to decide between family vacations and attending the convention.”

All plausible explanations, but there's a question as to why they're doing this just two weeks prior to the event. There are huge consequenses to moving back something of this scale on such short notice...


Just some of the many things that’d be involved if you chose to do this would be:

■Re-booking all of your speakers, some of whom you might have specific agreements with and might not be available on your new date. So there’s a chance they lose some of these speakers in the fall. If you’ve paid speaking fees, as Tea Party events have traditionally done, you might forfeit those.
■All of your attendees are going to have to change their hotel reservations, flights, and scheduled time off. It’s not a trivial commitment for someone to go to a convention like this. People make plans to take time off work (unless they are attending professionally), deal with their kids, schedule other vacations around this, and lay out a non-trivial amount of money to travel. Most airlines don’t have the friendliest policies about changing your flights, but the main problem is the hassle with rearranging your schedule. So it has to be a big deal to put all your attendees through this, and you’re going to get some attrition and a big brand hit for doing it.
■Renegotiating with the hotel can put you in a bad position with respect to your costs for the event. July vs. October are two completely different periods in the convention lifecycle in Las Vegas. So who knows what concessions they sacrificed by doing that. You’re also in a time period where the hotel might assess you large damages for blowing a hole in their room revenue.
■You’ve got to renegotiate with all your vendors. Some of them may be forgiving and others you might incur a contractual penalty this close in, especially if they’ve already purchased/rented equipment and made commitments to hire staff.
■If you’ve got any products that are on their way like programs, lanyards, bags, etc then that’s all out the window and will need to be changed.


So why go through all this?

Tea Party moves their convention | Raven Brooks
 
Rush couldn't make it.

That and the high percentage of senile Tea Baggers who would not remember who to vote for come election day if they had it too early


They would just be crying foul that the liberals had left Palin off the ballots.
 
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Idiot teabaggers didn't realize that the desert is hot in the summer. Boy are they stupid!!! Threads merged. -EZ

Tea Party Convention Postponed -- Vegas In July Is Too Hot! | TPMDC

A planned "unity" convention for tea partiers is being pushed to the fall, with organizers scrapping a major gathering with just 19 days before it was scheduled to go off. They cited heat and not being professional event planners, but the abrupt change in plans without a new date firmed up doesn't bode well for the fledgling group...

..."We were so excited about the tremendous success of the first convention, we jumped into this second convention without considering the timing. The heat in Las Vegas in July is keeping many who would like to participate from attending," organizers wrote. "We have also received numerous emails from people who were forced to decide between family vacations and attending the convention."
 
The Tea Baggers did not want a bunch of dead old farts from the heat.

Plus when they show up in their striped shorts and dress socks with garters and sneakers it is pretty embaressing.
 
Idiot teabaggers didn't realize that the desert is hot in the summer. Boy are they stupid!!!

Tea Party Convention Postponed -- Vegas In July Is Too Hot! | TPMDC

A planned "unity" convention for tea partiers is being pushed to the fall, with organizers scrapping a major gathering with just 19 days before it was scheduled to go off. They cited heat and not being professional event planners, but the abrupt change in plans without a new date firmed up doesn't bode well for the fledgling group...

..."We were so excited about the tremendous success of the first convention, we jumped into this second convention without considering the timing. The heat in Las Vegas in July is keeping many who would like to participate from attending," organizers wrote. "We have also received numerous emails from people who were forced to decide between family vacations and attending the convention."

*yawn*

learn to read subforum titles.:rolleyes:
 
Idiot teabaggers didn't realize that the desert is hot in the summer. Boy are they stupid!!!

Tea Party Convention Postponed -- Vegas In July Is Too Hot! | TPMDC

A planned "unity" convention for tea partiers is being pushed to the fall, with organizers scrapping a major gathering with just 19 days before it was scheduled to go off. They cited heat and not being professional event planners, but the abrupt change in plans without a new date firmed up doesn't bode well for the fledgling group...

..."We were so excited about the tremendous success of the first convention, we jumped into this second convention without considering the timing. The heat in Las Vegas in July is keeping many who would like to participate from attending," organizers wrote. "We have also received numerous emails from people who were forced to decide between family vacations and attending the convention."

*yawn*

learn to read subforum titles.:rolleyes:

You cannot move a thread to the same forum it is currently in. Someone else may have just moved this thread to your destination forum resulting in this error message
 
Idiot teabaggers didn't realize that the desert is hot in the summer. Boy are they stupid!!! Threads merged. -EZ

Tea Party Convention Postponed -- Vegas In July Is Too Hot! | TPMDC

A planned "unity" convention for tea partiers is being pushed to the fall, with organizers scrapping a major gathering with just 19 days before it was scheduled to go off. They cited heat and not being professional event planners, but the abrupt change in plans without a new date firmed up doesn't bode well for the fledgling group...

..."We were so excited about the tremendous success of the first convention, we jumped into this second convention without considering the timing. The heat in Las Vegas in July is keeping many who would like to participate from attending," organizers wrote. "We have also received numerous emails from people who were forced to decide between family vacations and attending the convention."

you mean there are TWO people who give a rat's ass about this?

that's just sad.
 
Idiot teabaggers didn't realize that the desert is hot in the summer. Boy are they stupid!!! Threads merged. -EZ

Tea Party Convention Postponed -- Vegas In July Is Too Hot! | TPMDC

A planned "unity" convention for tea partiers is being pushed to the fall, with organizers scrapping a major gathering with just 19 days before it was scheduled to go off. They cited heat and not being professional event planners, but the abrupt change in plans without a new date firmed up doesn't bode well for the fledgling group...

..."We were so excited about the tremendous success of the first convention, we jumped into this second convention without considering the timing. The heat in Las Vegas in July is keeping many who would like to participate from attending," organizers wrote. "We have also received numerous emails from people who were forced to decide between family vacations and attending the convention."

you mean there are TWO people who give a rat's ass about this?

that's just sad.

No, it's hilarious!!!

Stupid teabaggers didn't realize that Las Vegas is hot in the summer!! :rofl:

And they don't know Vegas has AC!!!!
 
No, it's hilarious!!!

Stupid teabaggers didn't realize that Las Vegas is hot in the summer!! :rofl:

And they don't know Vegas has AC!!!!

As funny (and pathetic) as that excuse is, consider another possibility....
 
Idiot teabaggers didn't realize that the desert is hot in the summer. Boy are they stupid!!! Threads merged. -EZ

Tea Party Convention Postponed -- Vegas In July Is Too Hot! | TPMDC

A planned "unity" convention for tea partiers is being pushed to the fall, with organizers scrapping a major gathering with just 19 days before it was scheduled to go off. They cited heat and not being professional event planners, but the abrupt change in plans without a new date firmed up doesn't bode well for the fledgling group...

..."We were so excited about the tremendous success of the first convention, we jumped into this second convention without considering the timing. The heat in Las Vegas in July is keeping many who would like to participate from attending," organizers wrote. "We have also received numerous emails from people who were forced to decide between family vacations and attending the convention."

you mean there are TWO people who give a rat's ass about this?

that's just sad.

I hear it's a BIG story in leftyhacktopia...
 
They need to hold in in Las Vegas so that Angle can explain her prohibition ideas and continue to backslide on her stances with Social Security and....FLUORIDE...LOL
 
Thought I'd say stop by to share this:


Back in June we learned that the much hyped Tea Party Unity convention was being canceled and rescheduled to October 14-16 in Las Vegas. This barely registered a blip with the media at the time and I called them out on it and set the record straight on what this was really about.

We’re about a month out from their new announced date, and I thought I’d check them out and see how things were coming along.

Well my first stop was a Google search to find their web site. I found it, but this link should speak for itself. Check out nationalteapartyconvention.com. Oh you got a page not found error? Well there’s nothing wrong with your browser, the site doesn’t exist any more. And there’s absolutely zero media or blog coverage of the event since they announced the dates were changing. Not really what you’d expect for an event featuring Sharron Angle, Lou Dobbs, Joseph Farah, and Andrew Breitbart is it?

Well it gets better. I wanted to make sure the convention really was canceled and they weren’t just having web issues or neglected to do any PR for their event. So I put in a call to the Mirage hotel and asked if I could book a room in their block for the event. Turns out the room block had been canceled and the Mirage had no record of the event.

So there you have it, the much hyped Tea Party Unity Convention is now completely canceled. Maybe they shouldn’t have paid Sarah Palin $100,000 to keynote the first event and they might have had a little more staying power financially


Tea Party moves their convention | Raven Brooks


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