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(Message started by: Charlie on Aug 18^th, 2004, 4:50pm)

Title: GOD, I LOVE NY (not ch)
Post by Charlie on Aug 18^th, 2004, 4:50pm

An excerpt from the Times:

In a transparently mercantile bid to keep protesters from disrupting the Republican National Convention later this month, the Bloomberg administration will offer "peaceful political activists" discounts at select hotels, museums, stores and restaurants around town during convention week, which begins Aug. 29.

Law-abiding protesters will be given buttons that bear a fetching rendition of the Statue of Liberty holding a sign that reads, "peaceful political activists." Protesters can present the buttons at places like the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Sex, the Pokémon Center store and such restaurants as Miss Mamie's Spoonbread Too and Applebee's to save some cash during their stay.

"It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach," Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday, when he announced the program at NYC & Company, the city's tourism office, which will distribute the buttons to all comers to its Midtown office.

The city contends that it wants to give as warm a welcome to protesters as to delegates. "Most times, people try to keep protesters from coming," the mayor said, "and they certainly don't go out of their way to accommodate them."

In offering the discounts, the city also has its economy in mind. Officials want to make sure that hotels and restaurants are as fully booked as possible during the convention week; many have reported that reservations are slow for that week.

The discount program for protesters is modeled on one for delegates to the convention, and there are some notable differences. Protesters are offered $5 off admission to the Museum of Sex, while delegates are not. But delegates get $3 off the space show at the American Museum of Natural History, a discount not offered to protesters. The Republicans get "Rent," the people who oppose them get "Tony n' Tina's Wedding."

Bloomberg administration officials say the list of offerings for protesters may grow. An up-to-date list appears on nycvisit.com; visitors to the site can click on "Welcome peaceful political activists." There, the discontented but hungry can also find information about the city's history and tour guides for the "politically minded visitor."
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Charlie 8)

Title: Re: GOD, I LOVE NY (not ch)
Post by Jonny on Aug 18^th, 2004, 6:32pm

STFU....Charlie...LOL ;;D

......................jonny

Title: Re: GOD, I LOVE NY (not ch)
Post by john_d on Aug 18^th, 2004, 6:41pm

If that actually works, those protestors should turn in their hippie badges ;)

Title: Re: GOD, I LOVE NY (not ch)
Post by Jeepgun on Aug 19^th, 2004, 12:51pm

HA!! HA HA!!! [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=crackup.gif]