Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) pounced on a golden opportunity on Tuesday after President Donald Trump threatened to pull the 2020 Republican National Convention out of Charlotte, North Carolina if that state’s Gov. Roy Cooper (D) didn’t allow full attendance at the convention amid COVID-19.
Georgia, Florida, and Texas in august. What could go wrong?
Hold the convention in Moscow. Why lie?
Hey, this re-opening could go well for the rest of us, if we just keep border patrols going at the State lines for Red States.
Too much risk of open window.
“Texas would welcome President Trump and the RNC Convention,” he said"
He didn’t ask all of us. Stop with the generalized statement.
It gets pretty hot in Texas in August.
Don’t be careful what you wish for?
In Russia, window open You.
C’mon, Alabama and Mississippi, you’re slacking off here. You too, South Carolina.
Contagion is fun!
And meanwhile GA, VA, and FL’s hospitalization rate spikes. And the VA outbreak is NOT in the DC parts of VA, but the red south and east.
So nothing like the convention in an infected GA. Brings the reality of republican trickle down to death.
So where were all these open arms when the RNC first sought bids to host their convention? NC “won” it because NC was the only state to bid.
Right you are. In 1903, following the Black Hand’s murder of the then-Serbian King Aleksandar Obrenovic, after which the bodies of the king and his mistress were flung out an open window, the New York Times declared that “defenestration is a Slavic racial characteristic.”
Any compounds in Waco available? Isn’t there a Branch Covidian group?
Political conventions aren’t always the expected cash cows for municipalities particularly when you are required have to provide security to the point where it becomes “security theater”. The DNC conventions in NYC at Madison Square Garden in 1976, 1980 and 1992 were festive events with few problems that showcased the city even as it was somewhat a rougher place. The 2004 RNC post 9/11 convention was another story. Using 9/11 as a cudgel along with protestors roughed up and sent over to a dirty sanitation depot on the West Side. As a sign stated on a nearby storefront “If Crawford Texas was attacked would we be having a party afterward?” The post convention report by the NYC Comptrollers office said that the city basically broke even with few discernible economic benefits.
This is a giant fake out to hurt Cooper. The governors of FL, TX and GA say they want the convention, but the big cities in those states do not want it. Just another bluff. Or they can hold the convention in Fort Walton Beach in August.
It’s a damn bluff and Gov Cooper needs to call it by announcing that the RNC can hold their convention if Trump and the RNC agree to pay the majority of the bill for the convention space and security up-front, because he’s been known to skip out on paying bills in the past. Announce it exactly that way.
My guess is Trump and the RNC will bail out and Cooper comes out looking stronger.
"In the race to the bottom, count me in!" – Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R for Repulsive)
In fact, usually they are not. Instead they have a displacement effect, where residents and non-political tourists say “fuck this shit” and stay away in droves, meaning city revenues are break-even or a little bit negative. But… in a pandemic where nobody’s touristing anyways, there’s not much to displace. So possibly this one could be revenue-positive, though one has to balance that against the medical costs to infected service staff.
Charlotte doesn’t need the convention, its a fast growing city.
AL and MS usually are #50 and #49 in almost every race to the bottom. Good to see GA and TX trying to compete…