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Ethan Miller/Las Vegas Sun
Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012 | 10:27 a.m.
A judge in Las Vegas has ordered a Tennessee tea party group to pay a casino $748,000 for rooms booked for a tea party convention that failed to lure political activists.
Tea Party Nation was found liable for the debt to the Venetian Casino Resort. The group was founded by Franklin, Tenn., attorney Judson Phillips.
The Tennessean ( http://tnne.ws/NLCc9N) reported Thursday that the judgment was handed down last month in Clark County (Nev.) District Court. Hotel officials said Tea Party Nation reserved 1,637 room nights for a July 2010 event, but canceled the gathering a few weeks prior to its scheduled date. The casino filed the lawsuit in July 2011.
No telephone listing for Tea Party Nation could be found Thursday in Franklin or in nearby Nashville.
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Information from: The Tennessean, http://www.tennessean.com
Love it!
Life's a B****
Accountability. That's for other people.
Why didn't Sheldon just write it off as a campaign contribution? He's given millions to Newt Gingrich and others.
Wow. Sheldon Adelson's Venetian sues the right-wing Tea Party group for $748,000. At the same time the right-wing Adelson pledges up to $100,000,000.00 to right-wing super-pacs.
Clearly shows the Republicans are splitting within their own supporters.
Unbelievable!!! The Right is eating it's own.
This is just too funny!!!!
Perfect just perfect!!! Job well done Adelson!!! <Laughing>
Stiff Adelson for the money just like he stiffed contractors!
thats $457 per "room night" thats twice the average internet rate and 4 times the internet special rates...sounds like the tea party needs a new travel agent....the article didnt say anything about convention space or food, just canceled "room nights"....
Maybe Sheldon can help out.
Let's pass the plate around all the Nevadans who are of course Taxed Enough Already and see how well this thing holds together over the course of a tiny reality check... to the tune of 3/4 of a million
Bets,? anyone,?? place your bets!
Don't you just love the combination of Adelson's greed and Teabagger stupidity!
If the Tea Party contracted for those rooms then they have to pay. I'd like to read the agreement before I judge.
Goes to show Adelson doesn't care who you are doesn't it. Unlike the left.
notacon: Adelsons greed? Give it a break. Its business simply business.
Do you think the alleged shady dealings/payoffs of Communist China officials is "simply business"?
Just signed on and WOW!!!!!! Laugh out Loud Moment! :)
What a hoot; too funny!!!! Got to Love It!!!!
Gotta go; happy I didn't miss this article.
This is a contract law dispute and nothing more.
good luck collecting that venetian !!!!!!!!!!!
I think they have a moral and ethical obligation to pay, On account the hotel turned reservations away while the rooms were booked.
Just throw the judgement in Boston Harbor if they are the TRUE patriots they claim to be.
Or are they just Lazy Boy patriots that skip out on the judicial system?
This reminds me of the sign at an early Tea Party rally: "Keep government hands off my Medicare!"
I thought you could cancel a reservation a few days ahead of time without penalty. The article says they cancelled weeks beforehand. Is it different with convention/business reservations?
Irony..........not just a word in the dictionary.
notacon: "alleged shady" key words in your post. Stay on point....FACTS
Next time book it in the name of GSA. Then you can use stimulus dollars to pay for it.
If they canceled the rooms within a few weeks why are they required to pay. Is there some stipulation since it was such a large block of rooms?
It is going to be hard to collect from a group that probably no longer exists.
In thinking about this further, this situation really lays out perfectly the absurdity of those not in the .001% supporting the GOP.
Adelson will give 100m to someone that will keeps his taxes low and give him a war with Iran he seems to want. The 99%ers that are part of the Tea Party, can go ahead and pay Adelson the money he needs to fund the things he wants - that serve his interests. He will not cut them a break. At all.
But Adelson and the .001%ers aren't completely without compassion. They'll still welcome the Tea Partiers to go out and protest against Obamacare, socialism and every other poorly thought out grievance, driving votes from Democrats who will actually pursue policies that benefit those wayward, intellectually lazy souls.
Sad. Really sad.