Holiday Inn Responds: Liberal Protesters Against Cantor Were A Security Threat

[butterfly77]

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/09/02/311364/holiday-inn-responds-liberal-protesters-against-cantor-were-a-security-threat/


As ThinkProgress reported Thursday, a Richmond, Virginia-area Holiday Inn abruptly canceled room and event ballroom reservations made by progressive groups that had planned to hold a “jobs rally” countering House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) event at the same hotel Wednesday evening. After they were removed, the groups held a protest outside the hotel. Holiday Inn’s corporate owner, Intercontinental Hotel Group (IHG), did not comment on the incident before publication yesterday, but today IHG responded, saying the protesters were removed from Holiday Inn property out of concerns for employee and guest safety:

IHG is aware of the protest that occurred at the Holiday Inn Richmond Koger South Conference Center. This hotel is independently owned and operated. IHG does not dictate local hotel operating policy for such franchised properties other than to require all hotels bearing its trademarks to comply with all federal, state and local laws, including laws regarding peaceful

[lpbk2713]

1. Nice Sgt Schultz impression there IHG.

"I know nothink, I know nothink."





The rethuglicans didn't want them there and that was what Holiday Inn acted on.

Weasels.

[LaydeeBug]

2. F%CK THAT. BOYCOTT HOLIDAY INN!!!!

We should call the bastards (right fucking now) and tell them this is no way to conduct business.

[jtrockville]

3. So, is IHG saying the "Holiday Inn" brand is meaningless?

[gratuitous]

4. They were going to ask loaded questions!

They had been locked out of seeing their Representative, so they were, uh, locked and loaded! Security! We have to consider everyone's safety, particularly Eric Cantor's who could have suffered extreme embarrassment! It would have been the Worst Thing to Happen to a U.S. Congressperson this year (not counting that show-off Gabby Giffords).

[Turbineguy]

5. Al Qeada responds:

"The US Navy Seals were a security threat to Osama bin Laden."

[butterfly77]

6. ...

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

7. So they're first excuse about smoking in thier rooms was a lie?