Friday, July 25, 2008
Politics / Woods GOP Opens Statesmen's Dinner To Reporters Who Buy Tickets and Wear Blindfolds
Posted by Jeff Woods on Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Turns out, the Tennessee Republican Party's annual Statesmen's Dinner isn't closed to the press after all. That's the news flash from party flack Bill Hobbs, whose email just popped into my inbox with a subject line asking "Fact Checker Off Today?"
"The event isn’t closed to the press," Hobbs writes. "Entrance requires a ticket. You could have known those things by contacting me before you typed."
To which, I replied, "I might call you more often if you’d call me back. So you’re saying if I buy a ticket, you’ll let me go in and report on what happens?"
"That has been our position all along," he shot back. "It is a ticketed event. People with tickets get in. But no recording devices allowed."
Wonder if a pad and pen count as recording devices? Whatever, as I pointed out previously, I don't want to go.
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