San Diego Republican Lincoln Club In Bad Taste With “Occupy Christmas” Invite

[nadinbrzezinski]

The Lincoln Club of San Diego is displaying some real bad taste with their new Christmas event invite. The group – an organized and ideological collection of Republican business people have sent out a colorful invite for their Grant Hotel shindig for December 8th entitled “Occupy Christmas” in an obvious pimp off the Occupy Wall Street movement. The card includes four camping tents with three signs made to look like protest signs that say “save the date” – well, you can see it.

To top it off, the keynote speaker is Steve Breen, the editorial cartoonist for the San Diego U-T.

So why is this worthy of note at the OB Rag?

We wanted to show how this clear mockery of the occupy movement by the invite is simply soaked in elitist hypocrisy, and not only makes fun of the movement that has highlighted the disparity in income between the very, very rich and the rest of us, it disparages protest and dissent in general.

http://obrag.org/?p=49179

Now let me add one more thing... one of the staffers for Lauri zaft had an elve party at the Civic Center (where the cops never harassed them), mocking the movement... yup she IS a republican.

But it seems these guys missed the memo from Frank Lutz.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. many of the commenters are saying the club is not republican but supports both D and R fwiw. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. And living in this town I will be charitable

it is pro business, which in this town translates to republican.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. LOL! Yeppers... bidness = GOP pretty much!

[Huey P. Long]

4. I think the larger insult is to mock a movement for social justice on a CHRISTmas event. -eom

[EC]

5. Well, just maybe

Several Occupy groups need to show up for the soiree, "to show support" for another occupy movement.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Would not surprise me in the least

:-)

I just hope to get tipped...

[lbrtbell]

7. MIC CHECK! - n/t