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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: bijou on January 24, 2009, 05:22:25 AM
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In a follow-up to an January 19 report from the Navy Times, the Army Times reported yesterday that:
The promoter who failed to hold a promised Veterans Inaugural Ball on Tuesday has left behind a trail of angry corporate sponsors and charities who contributed to the event, disappointed performers who were booked for entertainment, and 17 to 25 beauty queens who were told they would be ambassadors for their states at the ball and help raise up to $10 million for veterans’ causes.
Reporter Rick Maze gave a detailed account of promoter Dante Hayes's lies and fabrications:
He disappeared last week, about the time that the performers and beauty queens were expecting to receive final details on their travel and lodging arrangements, and around the same time that the hotel where the ball was supposed to be held pulled the plug when it had not received payment.
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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2009/01/23/veterans-ball-organizer-takes-money-runs-wheres-outrage-media-attentio#comments
What scum. I do hope that the first people to find Dante are veterans ...
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With my recent experience, it seems that some veterans are simply thieves. My local VFW is rife with them. It's about to fold if we don't get a grip on our cash hemorrhage. I'm working pretty hard to control it, but it almost requires me to be there the entire time the VFW is open. This doesn't surprise me in the least.
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Dante Hayes's...hmmmmm....by any chance is he any kin to Obama....the Clintons?
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The American Music Ball is just one of several inaugural events that have folded. MTV canned its Be the Change ball at the Ronald Reagan Center nearly two weeks ago, and Luke Russert canceled his prepster bash at Georgetown's the Rookery just two days after it was announced. Disheartening news broke yesterday afternoon that the Veterans' Inaugural Ball was kaput after the promoter, Dante Hayes of the nonprofit Congressional Education Foundation for Public Policy, "had not met financial obligations," according to the Army Times. As of this writing, Hayes is unable to be located.
Event planners speculate that unrealistic expectations of inaugural crowds prompted too many balls to be planned, and when the projected 4 million visitors never materialized, some events were unable to meet necessary ticket sales.
http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/people/capitalcomment/10914.html
Keep reading. It's 'the economy's fault'. :whatever: