Vendors Stuck with $100,000 Tab After (NAACP) Soiree (Milwaukee, WI)

JSOnline ^ | August 10, 2005 | Meg Kissinger

[montomike]

You try and feed that kind of food to a homeless bum and you would probably have some serious diarhea going on!

[Hildy]

If she agreed to it, and then backed out, I think it's only right. Is she legallly obligated...no. But I believe she's morallly obligated.

[PeterPrinciple]

And when checks started bouncing before the July 11 event even began, local vendors feared that they would be left empty-handed.


Isn't writing a bad check a crime?

[jwh_Denver]

A lot of restaurants can't donate left over food in many circumstances.

I think it's due more to possible lawsuits than laws.

[Balding_Eagle]

So I can advertise an event with you as guest speaker, and if you don't show up, I can just send the bill to your family?

I can't speak for Hildy, but I think she was pointing out that Oprah is a generous woman.

[em2vn]

Omarosa was the guest speaker. That should be a tip off. If that nut job is the best that can be found something is out of whack.

IMHO

[Hot Tabasco]

"If you have any suggestions, I'd be glad to hear them," she said.

Get a real job, there's already enough poverty pimps out there that will chew you up and spit you out....... You ain't in their league sweetheart!

[bray]

Maybe they can get the money from Dead Air America??

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[vetvetdoug]

Ever wonder why MLK was staying at a flea bag hotel like the Lorraine in Memphis when just around the corner was the Holiday Inn, at that time a hotel that was state of the art? The former manager of the Holiday Inn refused MLK's entourage the week of April 1968 because every time they had stayed at the Holiday Inn previously, MLK and the NAACP left many bills unpaid.

[Right Wing Assault]

$4,572.59 for seven rooms, including room service and restaurant charges.

That's a nice deal!

[Right Wing Assault]

left many bills unpaid

Standard 'Democratic' process. Has John Glenn paid off his bills from when he ran for president?

[smalltownslick]

I agree, the waste thing is unbelievable. Especially banquet waste...I've had occasion to work around a few banquets, and everything that comes back to the kitchen goes in the dumpster - everything...UNOPENED bottles of wine. Their logic is "it's paid for." It's heartbreaking to see all that food thrown out. Some restaurants actually do call food pantries; I'm sure the laws vary from place to place. So sad that because we're so quick to sue, many fear doing a good thing.

[jackbill]

along with 17 other high-profile Milwaukee women, including U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.),

Isn't she the RAT slut whose son was indicted for slashing tires on Republican "get out the vote" vans?

High profile????? She lower than a damned snake. But then, she a RAT so I guess we're supposed to just move on.

[DainBramage]

Just a cultural thang I can't understand BUMP and spit

[blam]

"I have it written down somewhere," she said. "I'm not sure where just now."

Lord, lord.

I'm reminded of that song where it says: "My uncle took the message and he wrote it on the wall". LOL

[Chuckster]

I know what it means and Walkingfeather is right.

[shezza]

Official attendance of delegates and guests was closer to 8,000, NAACP chairman Julian Bond reported just after the convention ended.

Despite the fact that they were anticipating 12,000 attendees, apparently some 8,000 DID show up. So why did less than a hundred of those actually pay for their tickets? (And dont' get me started on $70,000 worth of food that was THROWN IN THE TRASH. What, there are no hungry people or nearby schools that would have loved to have a surprise banquet?)

[B4Ranch]

I read your post with one question.

Who taught you how do the numbers?

Whomever it was, they deserve a big hug.

[B4Ranch]

SDomeone has a contract to supply the daily food to homeless shelters. Free food would interupt their profits, hence the laws.

[GOPJ]

She said she began planning the dinner in February and began to advertise it on her Web site, http://www.thegoddessawarenessgroup.com Tickets ranged from $100 for a seat at the "Athena/Strength" table to $400 for the "Gaia/Abundance" table.

If this isn't a tip-off the person's an airhead, nothing is... When someone says "goddess awareness group" stuff, it's time for cash on the barrel head.