Young Republicans Stage Secret Gala, Ignoring Virus Concerns

[brooklynite]

New York Times

On Thursday evening, the New York Young Republican Club intended to hold its 108th annual gala, in person.

It would not feature Sarah Palin, who had been booked for the event but canceled because of concerns about flying to the New York area from Alaska in the middle of a pandemic, according to someone familiar with her thinking.

It will not be held at the Caldwell Factory, the site listed on the club’s Facebook page. A spokesman for the venue, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, said that management had “no knowledge of this event,” adding that no events have been booked there for months.

The only certitude about the gala was that it had morphed into one of the more controversial party-planning decisions in New York City history.

[underpants]

1. O'Keefe

Afterward, Mr. O’Keefe called and offered a New York Times reporter the opportunity to spy on The Times for Project Veritas.

“We’d love to give you one of our hidden cameras and maybe you could speak with Mr. Baquet,” he said, referring to Dean Baquet, the paper’s executive editor. (The reporter declined.)

[FSogol]

2. Haw! Palin's smarter than those turds. N/t

[Blue_true]

4. That was one shocking piece of the story. nt

[BlueStater]

3. Palin? Really?

Great way to advertise that you’re not serious people whatsoever. I guess you’re just masochists who enjoy being mocked.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. well, that's one way to reduce their numbers