Police remove Eric Cantor protesters from a hotel ballroom they rented

Run time: 00:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78mkuKovo0Q   Posted on YouTube: August 31, 2011 By YouTube Member: lowkell Views on YouTube: 113   Posted on DU: September 01, 2011 By DU Member: kpete Views on DU: 1871

 
Sensing an opportunity to confront Eric Cantor over the lack of congressional action on jobs, over 200 local activists led by Progress Virginia and Virginia Organizing rented the ballroom above the one in which the advisory council was being held. However, about an hour before the meeting was scheduled to begin, hotel management appeared with a large police presence and told the activists to leave.

"Hotel management told us we had to leave immediately," saod Anna Scholl of Progress Virginia. Scholl added that about a dozen sheriff's deputies accompanied hotel management to make the demand.

When the protesters asked why they had to leave a ballroom which they had rented, hotel management at first told the protesters that someone in their group had been smoking indoors. "That was not true," according to Scholl. She noted that "someone in our group is pregnant."

When asked for another reason, management then told the protesters that the hotel was not comfortable with competing events. This is even though the activists had rented the ballroom a few days beforehand. Additionally, Scholl pointed out that "Cantor had the only other event" in the hotel that night.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/01/1012506/-Police-remove-Eric-Cantor-protesters-from-a-hotel-ballroom-they-rented?via=siderec

is realize WHERE their pay comes from. Does it come from Cantor or this hotel, or the tax-paying populace they've been directed to strong-arm???

cops do as they are told. Contrast this with the cops in Wisconsin and Ohio.

Did they at least get their money back?

...the Democratic Party would be canceling events at that hotel chain and informing corporate management they would not be doing business with them for the forseeable future.

It doesn't matter that these protestors were not formally representing the DP, they were on the ground being a thorn in Cantor's side. You don't have to be loud about it, but back them up!

Time for a boycott and lots of bad publicity.

"Holiday Inn!"

whenever I don't see the info info I'm desiring from a story, I go to Google news and search with keywords of a story. Always works!

I don't stay at their hotels, anyhow, but I hope others boycott them and say why, especially that one! :)

Looks like it's time to have a little "come to jeebus meeting with HOJO's", but I'm betting it will come from the grassroots and not the nat. Dems.