Short-lived Idea
All you Republicans can settle down. There will be no wench auction at the Gateway movie theaters next month.
I wrote yesterday on this blog about the invitation Republican insider Mark Towner sent to GOP contributors for a fundraiser for Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, who plans to run for re-election next year.
It's a take-off on the Pirates of the Caribbean theme, with a screening of the newest movie for donors and other festivities, like a wench auction.
I, of course, focused on the wench auction as a rather weird thing for respectable Republican Utahns to be involved with.
It turns out that Towner came up with the idea without checking in with Shurtleff on the details.
Shurtleff called me today and said that he had agreed in general for Towner to get something organized, but he never signed off on the details and certainly would never OK a wench auction.
"I have been heavily involved in domestic violence and sexual assault issues. I certainly would never sign off on a wench auction, even as a joke," Shurtleff said.
Shurtleff says he is advising Towner that the whole dress-up-like-a-pirate-and-come-to-the-movie idea is scrapped. He said he may have something for delegates just before the State Republican Convention in June, but it won't be on a pirate ship and there will be no auctioning of wenches.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
I wrote yesterday on this blog about the invitation Republican insider Mark Towner sent to GOP contributors for a fundraiser for Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, who plans to run for re-election next year.
It's a take-off on the Pirates of the Caribbean theme, with a screening of the newest movie for donors and other festivities, like a wench auction.
I, of course, focused on the wench auction as a rather weird thing for respectable Republican Utahns to be involved with.
It turns out that Towner came up with the idea without checking in with Shurtleff on the details.
Shurtleff called me today and said that he had agreed in general for Towner to get something organized, but he never signed off on the details and certainly would never OK a wench auction.
"I have been heavily involved in domestic violence and sexual assault issues. I certainly would never sign off on a wench auction, even as a joke," Shurtleff said.
Shurtleff says he is advising Towner that the whole dress-up-like-a-pirate-and-come-to-the-movie idea is scrapped. He said he may have something for delegates just before the State Republican Convention in June, but it won't be on a pirate ship and there will be no auctioning of wenches.
Cheers,
Paul Rolly
2:36 PM
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1 Comments:
"Wench Auction"? Only Mark Towner would think of something like that. After all, he is a Utah Republican "Insider", and the thought of this "Wench Auction" was clearly a no-brainer. The question you have to ask is....was his wife really going to be the "Wench"? Or did he have someonelse in mind?
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