Forgetting to Go to Queens

[brooklynite]

The food was ready and so were the little ballroom dancers. The exhibits were open, the panorama of the city was polished and the Unisphere was shining, all for 50 Republican delegates and guests who had promised to spend a morning at the Queens Museum of Art.

Problem was, nobody showed. With workers at the ready, a buffet of South Asian delicacies waiting and a group of grade-school students itching to tango, the planned private tour of the museum was called off after the delegates failed to appear.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/02/politics/campaign/02them.html
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Heavens! You can't expect the Delegates to interact with real New Yorkers, can you?

[shraby]

1. On one of these threads they also forgot

to go help at the soup kitchens.

[EnfantTerrible]

2. They are probably unfamiliar

with ART. A museum is where they keep their ideology

[beyurslf]

3. The republicans don't want to have to deal with Manhattanites...

you think they would dare want to see the bridge and tunnel folks? Come on!

[Bluebear]

4. The Mass. delegates blew off their soup kitchen date

They were supposed to go assist at some soup kitchen for the homeless for a photo op and only 8 of 53 who had pledged to go showed up. One said "Oh we were told it had cancelled" (lie) and another said there was a "transportation issue" (lie).