A Florida resort scheduled to host Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for what organizers claimed can be a small guide signing abruptly canceled it Thursday after studying the gathering was really meant to commemorate the third anniversary of the lethal Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Westgate Resorts’ Kissimmee, Florida, location mentioned the Osceola Republican Party made no point out of Jan. 6 after they pitched the occasion, as a substitute describing it as a guide signing for Greene’s memoir.
“Please be advised that Westgate was not made aware of the purpose of this event when we were approached to host a book signing,” the resort mentioned in a press release. “This event has been cancelled and is no longer taking place at our resort.”
Despite the cancellation, the Osceola County Republican Party was nonetheless promoting tickets to the occasion as of Friday morning.
The tiered tickets vary in value from $45 to $1,000, with “Super VIPs” on the highest degree receiving “a special private briefing on J6 and DC in a closed-door session.”
Osceola County Republican Party chair Mark Cross instructed The Hill Friday he was unaware Westgate had dropped them. Cross mentioned he believed Democrats had been in the end in charge for “calling people and lying about the purpose of the event.”
Asked by NBC News concerning the cancellation throughout a marketing campaign occasion for former President Donald Trump in Iowa, Greene known as the query “stupid” and instructed the outlet, “I really don’t understand the point of your question. It doesn’t make any sense.”
