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Cancel Culture Olive + Oak Cancels Vivek Ramaswamy Fundraiser After Outcry
Riverfront times ^ | August 28, 2023 | Ryan Krull

Posted on 08/29/2023 7:38:48 AM PDT by ncfool

Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will not be holding a fundraiser later this week at Webster Groves hotspot Olive + Oak, the restaurant announced today on social media.

The 38-year-old businessman and conservative author's campaign had advertised the event as "An Evening With Vivek Ramaswamy," including both a cocktail hour and a private dinner. For the low low sum of $3,300, attendees were offered not only that private dinner at one of St. Louis' top restaurants, but also a "phone call with Vivek" and a signed book. For $500, attendees could expect access to the cocktail hour and a keynote address.

A flyer for the event, which was to take place Wednesday night, started circulating on social media last week, with some expressing dismay that the beloved restaurant would host the conservative firebrand.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: cancel; gop; israel; ramaswamy; vivekramaswamy; waronterror
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Stupid move by a democratic leaning restaurant that has average food at best. Canceling Vivek from hosting a fund raiser because of his views on climate change and running for the GOP nomination. The restaurant loses revenue and future customers.

I have canceled them from my list of St. Louis restaurants.

1 posted on 08/29/2023 7:38:48 AM PDT by ncfool
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To: ncfool

Forgive me, but why would this person be labeled a “conservative firebrand”?


2 posted on 08/29/2023 7:43:19 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: ncfool

Anyone distancing themselves from this fraud, for any reason is a smart move on their part.


3 posted on 08/29/2023 7:44:10 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: ncfool

“some expressing dismay that the beloved restaurant would host the conservative firebrand.“

So a few rat crybabies got this coward to cancel it. Boycott.


4 posted on 08/29/2023 7:44:16 AM PDT by iamgalt
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I just called them and left a message telling them we were going to cancel them because of their anti-American bigotry. I left a message with the finance department- the third prompt

Please feel free to call us at 314-736-1370

https://oliveandoak.oohosp.com/reservations/


5 posted on 08/29/2023 7:46:21 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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Better yet make multiple reservations and don’t show up- as i just did


6 posted on 08/29/2023 7:49:48 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: ncfool

Cancel Culture = brownshirts = SA = Nazi terrorists


7 posted on 08/29/2023 7:50:57 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: OttawaFreeper

“Forgive me, but why would this person be labeled a “conservative firebrand”?”

Because he doesn’t believe that Trump should be jailed and tortured.


8 posted on 08/29/2023 7:52:36 AM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: ncfool

Trump ‘24!


9 posted on 08/29/2023 7:53:44 AM PDT by bgill
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To: ncfool

The fact that the knives are now out for Vivek indicates that he is FAR STRONGER than current, public, polling reveals. But since public polling does, ultimately, catch up to the private polling used by insiders, don’t be surprised if Vivek moves into a solid second place soon.


10 posted on 08/29/2023 7:54:46 AM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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Nice hotspot you’ve got there.


11 posted on 08/29/2023 7:56:09 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: ncfool

lost my appetite.


12 posted on 08/29/2023 7:56:47 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: BobL

Completely agree with you here.


13 posted on 08/29/2023 8:02:36 AM PDT by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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To: OttawaFreeper

Excellent question......the guy belatedly “discovered”
he was a Republican and never voted in a primary.

“Candidate Vivek” glibly expounds on any issue no matter how outlandish;
but a (God forbid) “President” Vivek would not say some of those things.

The wily Vivek needs....and desperately wants....attention.
And being a cunning slickster, he knows this is the way to do it;
say all the bombastic things that raise eyebrows.


14 posted on 08/29/2023 8:04:06 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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“conservative firebrand”

LOL...no, a “common sense patriotic American”


15 posted on 08/29/2023 8:04:22 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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The answer is simple. Anyone not part of the club must be demonized then crushed. “Conservative firebrand” likely tested well as an insult.


16 posted on 08/29/2023 8:07:27 AM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: OttawaFreeper

Anyone who sometimes speaks the truth is a “conservative firebrand”.


17 posted on 08/29/2023 8:09:24 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: OttawaFreeper

Why does Vivek need a fundraiser when he has Soros bankrolling him?


18 posted on 08/29/2023 8:09:52 AM PDT by chopperk ( )
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To: HamiltonJay

Your endless vitriolic posts against Vivek remind me of a jilted teenage girl. Did Vivek turn you down for a date?


19 posted on 08/29/2023 8:12:39 AM PDT by Right Brother
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A young Ramaswamy asking which democratic candidate he
should vote for—-resurfaced 2004 talk show video clip
Twitter ^ | 8/28/2023 | Dc Draino
FR Posted on 8/29/2023, 7:21:52 AM by Phoenix8

<><>Newly released 2004 video of Pharma fraud Vivek
trying to figure out which Democrat candidate to vote for

<><>He applied for & received a Soros fellowship in law school

<><>He never registered as a Republican

<><>He never voted in a primary

But now he wants to be the GOP nominee?

(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...


20 posted on 08/29/2023 8:12:45 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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