Las Vegas Resort Sues Tea Party Group for Unpaid Bills

[meegbear]

The Tennessee-based Tea Party Nation, a group which even some Tea Party warriors consider a bit "scammy," was forced to cancel its National Tea Party Unity Convention in Las Vegas last year over a lack of demand. But it appears that it may not have canceled promptly enough to avoid paying! So the Las Vegas resort that TPN had booked out is suing the group for hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid bills.

The convention was first planned for July of last year, then postponed to October, then canceled. For the July dates, Tea Party nation had booked 1,637 room nights at the Palazzo hotel, which is part of the Venetian Casino Resort and owned by the Las Vegas Sands Corp. The complaint alleges that the money owed in the event of a cancellation has not really been paid! Oh, and there's interest, too.

From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

According to a contract attached to the complaint, the reservation included an agreement by Tea Party Nation to pay the resort $579,148 in the event of a cancellation, of which the resort alleges the group still owes $554,148. An 18 percent interest charge added $87,996 to the amount the resort wants to collect.

"Now" sounds like the optimal time for the folks behind this fly-by-night Tea Party Nation operation to finally flee the country.

http://gawker.com/5823097/las-vegas-resort-sues-tea-party-group-for-unpaid-bills

[MineralMan]

1. Good luck to Vegas in collecting this. I'm guessing they'll

never see a penny. The organization will just disband and reform under a different name. No doubt it was incorporated, so the individuals won't be held liable for the debt. The Vegas folks will just write it off as a bad debt and pay even less taxes than they already do.

And there it is...it's not the old days, when the mob would send some leg-breakers out to collect the money. More's the pity, perhaps.

[joeybee12]

10. If they try that, that's fraud...and they can go after the new group...

Usually the casino will haggle with them and they'll end up paying something...they wouldn't want a court judgment against them so they shouldn't let it go that far...it's int heir interest to settle for some amount, the Tea Party's interest, that is, although they mgiht not since they're not rational people.

[Lost-in-FL]

2. Freeloaders. Every single one of them. nt

[Vincardog]

3. So why don't the Koch brothers settle up?

[KansDem]

4. Uh-oh!!! Better get their bus ready!!!

Fired up and ready to scoot out of town!



Countdown to Judgement Day!!! (The "Judgement" of the Court, that is!!! :rofl:)

Fucking losers...

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[rurallib]

6. sara! Sara! we need help!

she's probably going to sue also because she wasn't able to grift a speaking fee.

[brooklynite]

7. I think they should demand payment in gold...

...after all, who would trust that "paper money" from the Federal reserve?

[monmouth]

8. They most likely will be unable to book any hotel in the future, at

least until this is paid. No hotel in their right mind would book to these grifters. That pleases me.

[Lars39]

9. This made my day!

Franklin is such a weird, wealthy place crammed full of supply side jesus freak republicans....does my heart good to see 'em dragged into the courts. :D

[tnlefty]

11. So that's what they mean about FREE markets.

Glad that's cleared up for me.

[Supply Side Jesus]

12. LoL!!

:rofl:

Classic

[tnlefty]

22. It seems as though the invisible hand of the free market just

got a little more visible and smacked them upside their stupid heads.

I hope that this breaks them as I'll hear the whining and howling here in the SE part of the state.:rofl:

[meegbear]

17. DUzy!!

[orwell]

13. Cue Vinny with a Baseball Bat...n/t

[hobbit709]

14. What a surprise. the something for nothing crowd are deadbeats.

[damntexdem]

15. No bill paying without ... being sued.

Yeah, the teabaggers really represent the spirit of the founders. ;-)

[LooseWilly]

16. They just love defaulting on debts apparently.

Good times!

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. They canceled their convention here in September

Lack of interest:)

[meegbear]

20. Maybe they'll get sued there too ...

damn free market!

[NeedleCast]

19. In The Old Days of Vegas

If these chumps had refused to pay bills to the casinos there would be some dead people buried in the desert and the money would have been collected one way or another.

[toddwv]

21. Send the bill to Fox "News"

c/o Shawn Hannity.

Postage due.

[A Simple Game]

23. But we can't owe that much because our debt ceiling isn't that high. n/t

[Betty]

24. they don't give a shit about defaulting

on any debt.

[lonestarnot]

25. Boat load of fucking grifters right there. That's what they get for catering to those fuckers.