A Priest Hired to Perform Exorcism at CPAC HQ Following Staff Resignations

[speak easy]

When a group of employees resigned in protest from conservative activist group CPAC last year, the organization’s power couple—Matt Schlapp and his wife, Mercedes—felt it was time for a new beginning.

As part of the reset, the Schlapps turned to a priest to evict satanic spirits from the D.C.-area offices, according to multiple people with knowledge of the exorcisms.

... CPAC employees at their offices in Alexandria, Virginia—about eight miles from the fabled staircase featured in the 1973 horror classic The Exorcist—found themselves suddenly in the presence of a Catholic priest. The priest, sources said, sprinkled holy water around the CPAC premises and blessed all the staff, regardless of their faith. As part of the rite, according to these people, the priest placed a medallion above doors in the offices and explained that it would help ward off evil spirits.

The reason for the exorcism? A raft of junior employees had just walked away from their jobs en masse, after the organization denied their repeated requests for higher pay, according to multiple people with knowledge of the events.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/matt-schlapp-held-an-exorcism-at-cpac-offices-after-junior-employees-resigned

A living wage is ... the work of the devil.

[Bluethroughu]

1. Lol!!

[madinmaryland]

2. It didn't work. Schlappy and his wife are still there.

[Ray Bruns]

3. Since Matt Schlapp and CPAC didn't disappear into a vortex like the house from the movie Poltergeist

I’m assuming it didn’t work.

[usonian]

4. An exorcism at CPAC would leave the place empty.

Will Father Pat McGroin please shut the lights on the way out?

[Ocelot II]

5. That should eliminate CPAC altogether.