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No Tickee, No Rovee: TNGOP Statesman’s Dinner Closed To Press

By Kleinheider Posted on July 24, 2008 at 7:22 am

Unlike the Tennessee Democratic Party’s annual fundraiser, Jackson Day, the Tennessee GOP confirms that their annual money-raking event known as the Statesman’s Dinner will be closed to the press. TNGOP Communications Director Bill Hobbs:

Like most political fundraisers, the Statesmen’s Dinner is a private ticketed event. No one without a ticket gets in. It’s standard operating procedure for most every political fundraiser.

The keynote speaker this year is “The Architect” Karl Rove. At last year’s event at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, then Presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke to the assembled Tennessee Republicans in the wake of speculation of Fred Thompson’s presidential bid. This year, the event will be held at the Nashville Convention Center downtown.

UPDATE 8:19AM: The Associated Press reports on the historical departure.

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7 Responses to “No Tickee, No Rovee: TNGOP Statesman’s Dinner Closed To Press”

  1. KnoxvilleTalks.com | Knoxville, TN | > The Tennessee GOP’s tent is big enough to include everyone…who has a ticket writes
    July 24th, 2008 7:30 am

    [...] state GOP’s dinner featuring keynote speaker Karl Rove is available to everyone with the proper credentials. addthis_url = [...]

  2. Sally smarty pants writes
    July 24th, 2008 7:57 am

    Closed dinners, closed caucus meetings, what are these people trying to hide?

  3. Julius Valerius writes
    July 24th, 2008 8:58 am

    That is simply not true. These dinners have been open to the press as long as I can remember. Sometimes there are ‘private’ receptions before or after, but if a reporter insisted, rather than make a scene, they would be admitted.

  4. TNGOP Communication Director Defends Closing The Statesman’s Dinner : Post Politics: Political News and Views in Tennessee writes
    July 24th, 2008 10:07 am

    [...] chastises the media and blogger coverage of the news that, in a historical departure, the TNGOP will close this weekend’s Karl Rove-keynoted Stateman’s Dinner to the press: [T]he suggestion that [...]

  5. LeftWingCracker writes
    July 24th, 2008 10:34 am

    Well, maybe they should make a fuss; Rove reacts to REAL reporting the way vampires react to sunlight…

  6. Dru writes
    July 24th, 2008 11:22 am

    Bill Hobbs acted like I had gum on my shoe when I asked about covering the Statesmen’s dinner. I always “write nice” about these social events, too. A Republican Party Web site video complains about the lack of coverage of Carley Fiorina’s appearance in Nashville. Does Hobbs have a communications problem with the media?

  7. brittney writes
    July 24th, 2008 3:16 pm

    Hobbs has always been a true crusader for transparency. When it suits him.

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