Tea Party Nation founder sued by Vegas resort for $642,000

[jefferson_dem]

Source: The Tennessean

Hotel says it was stiffed on failed convention

FRANKLIN — Judson Phillips, a Williamson County attorney and the founder of the Tea Party Nation, is being sued by a Las Vegas resort for allegedly stiffing the hotel on a $550,000 bill tied to a failed political convention.

The complaint isn’t the first to be filed against Phillips in his role as a tea party activist. He also was sued in March 2010, just weeks after he helped bring Sarah Palin to Nashville to headline the National Tea Party Convention.

According to the suit filed this week in Clark County District Court in Nevada, Phillips booked 1,637 room nights at the Venetian Casino Resort in anticipation of a tea party event to be held July 14-18, 2010. But in late June of that year, Phillips canceled the gathering. The hotel says Phillips paid only a $25,000 deposit on the rooms and owes more than $554,000. In keeping with a March 2010 contract signed by both parties, the hotel also is suing to recover an 18 percent interest charge worth an additional $87,996.

In total, Venetian Casino Resort is suing for $642,000.



Read more: http://www.tennessean.com/article/20110721/NEWS03/307210051/Tea-Party-Nation-founder-sued-by-Vegas-resort-642-000

[Divine Discontent]

1. I'm just surprised the prostitutes haven't sued for lost revenue, too!

:rofl:

[Chimichurri]

2. These Teabaggers are not very fiscally responsible. Can you imagine where these

dopes are going to take us? Unbelievable.

[Divine Discontent]

5. we're gettting a clear idea of where...

[Blue_Tires]

10. they just love spending other people's money...

[AlbertCat]

19. These Teabaggers are not very fiscally responsible.

Well, what do you expect from groups that apparently are not aware you have to actually pay for things?

[Chimichurri]

24. Or what's actually *in* the Constitution despite their tantrums about violating it.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. Good. Couldn't happen to a bigger a-h. nt

[FSogol]

4. Haw-haw! n/t

[your_wrong]

6. Funny considering

Sheldon Adelson, a big money donor to the GOP owns The Venetian.

[bitchkitty]

23. And? n/t

[No Elephants]

7. Why do media lie like this and get away with it? The founders of the Tea Party are the Koch

brothers. They began cooking it up in the 1980's, after they had switched from Republicans to Libertarians (aka Republicans who begrudge even military spending).

Without their money and connections, this "grass roots" movement would never have begun.

[tanyev]

8. See, Judson, there are consequences for defaulting on obligations.

[Kingofalldems]

9. Kick and Rec one time for the teabaggers

[sinkingfeeling]

11. See the shining example of 'personal responsibility'!

[Historic NY]

12. They should have book Hoilday INN......teabaggers screwing everybody else.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

13. Tea Baggers are just another bunch of free-loaders who use the infra-structure & services & then

do not want to pay for them through our nationally shared burden of taxes. If you want to dance then you need to pay the fiddler.

[plumbob]

22. Well said. Thank you. Very nice, compact

thought that says it well.

[SpiralHawk]

14. RepubliBaggers don't pay bills or taxes. They are bloodsucking shirkers

They accept responsibility for nothing, and whine that they are asked to do their part for the United States of America. Ptoooooey on Republicon Family TeaBagging Values.

[guitar man]

15. I wish the old mob was still running Vegas

He wouldn't be getting sued. Other.. uh... collection tactics would be employed against him. :evilgrin:

[russspeakeasy]

16. I hope it was one of Wynns properties.

[the_chinuk]

17. Never ever thank a Republican for their business … until they pay the bill and the check clears. n/t

[Vogon_Glory]

18. So This Is How Teabaggers Practice Personal Responsibility These Days?

I find the disgraceful behavior of the 'Tea Party Nation' delightfully ironic. I'm gray and wrinkled enough to remember when members of the Elephant Party used to thump their chests and talk about 'personal responsibility.' According to such folks, 'personal responsibility' meant thinking clearly, living within your means, paying your bills, and if you make messes, acknowledge your part in it, then CLEAN IT UP. Removed from a political context and separated from right-wing attacks on indigents, the mentally-ill, and unwed mothers, those are actually pretty good behaviors and values for individuals to live by.

But that's beside the point. The point is that there is NO connection between right-wing rhetoric and right-wing behavior. There was NO sign whatsoever of the 'Tea Party Nation' practicing genuine personal or fiscal responsibility in its dealings with the Venetian Casino Resort in negotiating for their convention or after it flopped. To me, the 'Tea Party Nation's behavior shows that practicing REAL personal responsibility is even deader to the Far Right than Ohio Republican Robert Taft.

I hope we can get this point through the heads of some older voters still voting for the Senile Elephant Party because of the way they thought Republicans behaved sixty years ago. Personal responsibility is as dead on the right as tail-fins on automobiles.

[Blacksheep214]

20. The odds are good!

Vegas does not give a crap about the Tea Party! They are simply the wrong demographic.

At 56 and white I notice that the important marketing is for the 20 and 30 range. The Tea Party as a majority are cranky 50+ white people scared shitless by the rise of a new majority. Unlike them, I think that mixed relations produce beautiful babies. Like my granddaughter! (Sorry, Grandpas brag.)

The lack of interest in this event despite being in Vegas was either due to cost or apathy. It's VEGAS baby!

Pay the casino, or ........? :hide:

[florida08]

21. that's their format isn't it?

Don't pay the bills..just keep raking in the donations