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TexasTowelie

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Sat Mar 13, 2021, 07:58 PM Mar 2021

Conservative group hosts mask-burning party in Parker. McKinney mayor says he was "set up"

More than one week after Gov. Greg Abbott lifted Texas’s statewide mask mandate and business occupancy restrictions, a Jewish conservative group hosted a mask-burning party at a residence in the 4900 block of Shady Knolls Drive in Parker on Wednesday evening.

The group, Dallas Jewish Conservatives, organized the event to celebrate the lifting of these restrictions and to cultivate camaraderie amongst local conservatives. The event featured speeches from prominent Republican figures including former Texas Senate candidate Shelley Luther, A Dallas-based salon owner who made national news at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic after her arrest for refusing to close her business due to public health restrictions.

Entrepreneur Keenan Williams and comedian Evan Sayet were also billed as speakers for the party, which drew an estimated 150 people. While the primary theme of the party was to celebrate the end of the statewide mask mandate, Williams spent most of his speech discussing how he became a multimillionaire despite having been incarcerated for six years in 1993.

Conservative groups such as Ladies of Liberty Republican Women’s Club set up booths at the event, while other vendors sold “Trump 2024” merchandise and anti-socialist memorabilia. A raffle was set up with prizes that included books authored by Sayet, including The Woke Supremacy and The KinderGarden of Eden.

Read more: https://starlocalmedia.com/allenamerican/conservative-group-hosts-mask-burning-party-in-parker-mckinney-mayor-says-he-was-set-up/article_6daddf7a-829d-11eb-ac1a-3f931c152d8b.html
(Allen American)

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Conservative group hosts mask-burning party in Parker. McKinney mayor says he was "set up" (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2021 OP
SMDH. Who are they trying to impress? Arkansas Granny Mar 2021 #1
Mmmm....breathe deep and smell the toxic fumes! tanyev Mar 2021 #2
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