VA Hotel Evicts Paying Liberal Guests to ‘Avoid Confrontation’ with Eric Cantor

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/09/01/va-hotel-evicts-paying-liberal-guests-to-avoid-confrontation-with-eric-cantor/


Don’t you want to know which hotel evicted people from their rooms and canceled their ballroom reservation just so Eric Cantor wouldn’t have to hear anything dissident during his stay? And don’t you want to hear what those people had to say?

It was the Holiday Inn Koger Conference Center in Chesterfield, Va., just outside of Richmond. ThinkProgress reports that three Virginia grassroots organizing groups had booked space in a separate ballroom at the same hotel where Rep. Eric Cantor, House Majority Leader, was holding an “advisory council” with pre-registered constituents. The liberal-leaning citizens said they had hoped to discuss with Cantor their concerns about unemployment and job creation after his scheduled event. The ThinkProgress article continues:

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. However, a representative of Holiday Inn who only agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity, said the hotel was seeking to avoid confrontation between the progressive groups and those attending the Cantor event.

Cantor said of the desperate Va. residents who had gathered to speak with him:

More at the link --

:wow: :grr:

[butterfly77]

1. ...

[Lindsay]

2. It just keeps

getting worse, doesn't it?

[WI_DEM]

3. Time for liberals/progressives to boycott Holiday Inn.

[dgibby]

4. I just posted this on my FB wall,

with a comment that we should boycott HoJo's. I have a feeling lots of my fellow Virginians will be more than happy to voice their displeasure with this company.

[hlthe2b]

7. Boycott "HoJo's"??

1. Wasn't this Holiday Inn?
2. Do any of those old Howard Johnsons (HOJO's) still exist? Inquiring minds want to know...;)

[ellenfl]

9. yes, hojo's still exist but this event was not at hojo's according to the op. eom

[dgibby]

10. OOPS! My bad!

Never post before the 3rd cup of coffee! Thanks! I'll change my FB post.

[hlthe2b]

5. I hope they sue the shit out of them.

Breach of contract, indeed.

[malaise]

6. Is it fascism yet???

WTF????

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

13. yes, it is.

[Blue_Tires]

8. ladies and gentlemen; I present my home state...

:eyes:

[beac]

11. [phone]

In case anyone would like to discuss the Holiday Inn Koger Conference Center's reservation policy with them (politely, of course)

[Supersedeas]

12. Is Holiday Inn a business that you will continue to support?

[jtrockville]

14. Frankly, I'm trying my best not to support ANY big business.

It's hard, but worth the effort.

Most of my food comes from local farms (Brett's produce simply can't be beat).
I try to buy most of my clothes and household items second-hand from the Goodwill store.
I still need to buy gas (very little since I telecommute and when I need to drive, I use my Smart car).

I do like to travel, and have frequented Holiday Inns. Next time I travel, I'll write to the Holiday Inn in the town, and let them know I'm staying elsewhere due to this incident.

[Supersedeas]

26. i'm with ya jt

[JPZenger]

15. Its a franchise

Holiday Inn is a system of naming rights and a reservation system, with individual ownerships of hotels. You can't hold one Holiday Inn responsible for the screw-ups of another Holiday Inn.

[formercia]

16. Perhaps the perps should lose their franchse

I think Corporate HQ needs to hear about this incident, ASAP.

[hlthe2b]

18. Umm. NOT HOJO's-- this is Holiday Inn

HOJO's refers to the old Howard Johnson's chain. ;)

[formercia]

20. Edited, Thanks.

:hi:

[Donnachaidh]

17. sure you can -- Holiday Inn doesn't want to lose customers nationwide due to this

You really don't think Holiday Inn will crawl up the franchisee's ass over complaints? Do you *really* think they will turn a blind eye to this sort of crap -- when their NAME is attached to it?

THEY will get involved if enough complaints start flooding in.

[Rex]

19. I didn't think it was legal to do that.

[formercia]

21. Public Accomodations

They are in Deep Shite.

[dembotoz]

22. maybe if they offered to use a separate entrance and eat in a different area it would have been ok

i am being sarcastic to anyone whom may not be able to figure that out.........

[formercia]

25. It would have been too expensive

to install new Toilet facilities and Water Fountains for the GOP. It was much easier to throw the Liberals off their property.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

23. Funny how we never hear of Malleable Middle groups getting evicted,

arrested, beaten up, etc. Once again, those pesky libruls doing the heaving lifting.

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. Ah the early years of Nazi Germay do come to mind

And I know some cite Goodwin...whatever, the parallels are just eerie.

[Shandris]

27. In this day...

...so-called 'Godwin's Law' needs to have a few well-tested corollaries attached to it, because on its' own it's approaching useless. :(

[lpbk2713]

28. Aristocracy in America.

Here we have a preemptive measure taken on behalf of a rethuglican office holder
merely on the suspicion that he might be offended by other guests.

[Liberal_in_LA]

29. wow. Hope people boycott that holiday inn

[autorank]

30. k*r Cantor is such a loser

And I thought, "Virginia is for lovers" roflmao