Harvard medical students, doctors urge cancellation of fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago

[TexasTowelie]

Hundreds of medical students, doctors, and other medical personnel opposed to President Trump’s immigration order are urging the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to cancel a lavish fund-raiser at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.

But even as the number of signatures on a circulating petition grew — rising to 700 caregivers in Boston and across the United States by 5 p.m. Tuesday — Dana-Farber said it would not risk losing money earmarked for cancer research and treatment by canceling the fund-raiser.

Donors are paying as much as $100,000 to attend the fund-raiser on Feb. 18 at the 20-acre seaside resort in Palm Beach. Dana-Farber raised $2.2 million at last year’s Mar-a-Lago gala, which featured a concert by James Taylor, according to a video on the hospital’s website.

The objections to the fund-raiser are an example of the fallout over Trump’s order restricting travel from seven Muslim-majority countries — restrictions that have prompted protests across the country.

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[Doreen]

1. Why is Dana-Farber afraid of moving it. He should know

just as well as everybody else that he will not be losing money that Trump himself would give and on top of it he could find a place less expensive to have the fundraiser and use more for the charity than just having to pay Trump to be at Mar-a-Lago.

[SamKnause]

2. What is the point ???

The Republican party does not believe in science.

They should be denied all technology and medical care.

They should not have access to anything in the 21st century.

Prayer should be the only tool they have access to.

I am so sick of these hypocrites.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. I'll be damned surprised if James Taylor shows up to this gig. n/t