Holiday Inn Boots Progressives Who Reserved Space For Jobs Rally In Same Hotel As Cantor Event

[Are_grits_groceries]

Progressive groups organizing a rally at the same Richmond-area hotel where House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) was holding an event Wednesday were abruptly kicked out of the hotel and told by hotel management to remain off of its property during Cantor’s event.

Cantor held an Advisory Council gathering, closed to the media but open to constituents who registered ahead of time, at the Holiday Inn Koger Center in Richmond. A coalition of progressive Virginia organizing groups — Progress Virginia, OurDC, and Virginia Organizing — had booked rooms and a separate ballroom in the hotel to hold a “jobs rally” countering Cantor’s event. According to organizers, the groups planned to invite Cantor to attend their rally after his own event, in the hope that he would listen to their concerns regarding job creation and unemployment.

But just hours before the events were set to begin, the Holiday Inn canceled the groups’ ballroom and room reservations and ordered the groups to remain off of hotel property during Cantor’s meeting. According to organizers, hotel management falsely accused them of smoking in their rooms and used that as justification to cancel their reservations. A representative of Holiday Inn who only agreed speak on the condition of anonymity, however, said the hotel was seeking to avoid confrontation between the progressive groups and those attending the Cantor event. He would not comment on whether the hotel had any communications with Cantor or his staff regarding the progressive groups.
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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/09/01/309923/holiday-inn-abruptly-ejects-progressive-groups-who-reserved-space-for-jobs-rally-in-same-hotel-as-cantor-event/

Add Holiday Inn to the list.
They probably said,"Sir! Yes sir!" or knelt before Cantor.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Freaking republicons, Inc. cannot stand the idea of democracy

Freaking Totalitarian Holiday Inn Plutocrat RepubliWankers.

[MADem]

2. I think that Holiday Inn owes some folks some COMPENSATION.

They contracted to provide a service, and then said "Fuck you." Tsk, tsk. Take them to court, get some money, and then take them to the court of public opinion.

Holiday Inn, ASSHOLES. That's the association I'm making!

[think]

3. Cantor has a job program? Let me guess. Could it be tax cuts for the rich?!....nt

[raccoon]

4. I think they should at least try to sue Holiday Inn. nt

[Obamanaut]

5. . nt

[Fumesucker]

6. And yet people here sneer at the term "Hippie Punching"...

This is a perfect example of hippie punching by a major corporation.

Wait and see if the Democratic establishment supports this group or the hotel..

I'd put my money on the hotel.