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Ted Nugent's appearance at upcoming Longview festival canceled by city
Posted: Mar 21, 2014 9:25 AM PDT
Updated: Mar 21, 2014 9:47 AM PDT
By Whitley Walden - email
LONGVIEW, TX (KLTV) - A controversial classic rocker was scheduled to perform at an upcoming Longview festival, but the city decided to cancel the singer's appearance.
The City of Longview is preparing to hold its second annual Fourth of July festival. Planning for the festival includes musical acts performing at the Maude Cobb Convention Center. Event organizers reached out to several artists in hopes of booking them to perform. One of those artists was rocker Ted Nugent.
Maude Cobb staff had reached a verbal agreement with Nugent to perform at the festival. Amid the controversy surrounding Nugent's appearance with Texas gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott, organizers decided to cancel the singer's appearance.
Nugent's guaranteed performance fee is $32,000. In order to cancel with him, the City of Longview paid the singer $16,000 out of the Maude Cobb's annual budget not to appear.
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http://www.kltv.com/story/25038839/ted-nugents-appearance-at-upcoming-longview-festival-canceled-by-city
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)Cha
(296,776 posts)stink up the place.
Bless Longview's big ol heart!
flying rabbit
(4,623 posts)Sounds like Teddies on the dole.
we can do it
(12,166 posts)just sayin
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,357 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)mimi85
(1,805 posts)Gothmog
(144,890 posts)Abbott needs to jump on this
I stayed away and didn't get anything.
I'll have to find out who his agent is.
Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)When cancelling talent or services. It if fair compensation as often they can't book another venue n in such short notice.
dem in texas
(2,673 posts)East Texas is the reddest of red. This gives me hope things can change.
butterfly77
(17,609 posts)alato
(43 posts)east Texas is more populated than west texas.
Kelselsius
(50 posts)Ted will have been either dead or in jail.
Unless he's a coward and/or a liar.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,006 posts)and belated welcome!
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)to keep that banal, evil individual away!
yuiyoshida
(41,818 posts)bribing cops to keep him away... just sayin!
spanone
(135,781 posts)hey ted.......
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mimi85
(1,805 posts)Betty White - one of my idols. May she live long and prosper; guess she already has.
spanone
(135,781 posts)japple
(9,805 posts)Lyle Lovett would step up and perform for this event! Wishing and hoping...
mimi85
(1,805 posts)You never know. We should start a twitter campaign - not that I would know how to do that. Or maybe these gals could show up:
Shoulders of Giants
(370 posts)Taking $16,000 in hard earned tax payer money to do absolutely nothing. Ronald Reagan was right. Our country has a problem with welfare queens. Not to mention, he's an anti American draft dodger, and a child molestor.
tea and oranges
(396 posts)of military might. In Texas. What does it portend, presage, auger, foretell, prophesy, even? Cuz, damn, it must mean something.
Maybe the mongrel shittalk was too out of range of the dog whistles. Made folks uncomfortable. . .
kag
(4,078 posts)I grew up in Longview, went to Longview High School, was a Viewette (not kidding).
And I have never before been so proud of being from Longview. Frankly, I halfway expected the headline to be in error. Just a typo or something. Longview is certainly NOT a liberal town. The only thing I can think of is that all of the Baptists didn't want their children's virgin ears exposed to the kind of abhorrent language that routinely spouts from the vacuous mouth of that imbecilic, repulsive cretin, even if it is language that, in its sanitized translation they actually agree with.
BTW, Matthew Mcconaughey is also from Longview.