Tourist council rejects comic Griffin for Memorial Day WeekendThe rejection occurred at a meeting on March 22, just one day after the latest settlement impasse was revealed.
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Local promoter Johnny Chisholm has asked the head of the county's Tourist Development Council to step down for refusing to allocate funds to bring comedian Kathy Griffin to Pensacola's Memorial Day Weekend celebration....(more)
Allegedly, the reason Chisholm's request for a share of this tourism development money was denied was because TDC Chairman Denis McKinnon was not a Kathy Griffin fan.
However, it's hard not to imagine that he and the other 7 members who voted against the grant also felt that $150,000 on a single entertainer, regardless of who he or she was, was too much of a dubious risk to take. Indeed, as those of here who read through Timeline 1 dealing with the DeForest case will recall, Chisholm's track record in bringing in top dollar entertainers to headline events has not exactly been a stellar one.
Here once again is the Federal judge in the Bardfield and DeForest cases, summing up the fiasco that ensued when Chisholm used other people's money to bring in Mariah Carey as a "huge draw" to "jump-start" his floundering One Mighty Party Paris event back in 2007:
To quote Yogi Berra: "It's like deja vu all over again."
Interesting that the address on the letter Johnny sent asking for the resignation of the TDC Chair is different than the one used in the DeForest/Barfield cases.
ReplyDeleteMore proof of what a dumbazz business person JC is - he is asking for money for Kathy G. from one of the most christian, old, white, conservative counties in the United States! Big News Johnny - this crowd can't stand Kathy G, Rosie O, etc.
ReplyDeleteReally, Johnny? Given your track record re: performers and events and screwing suppliers and customers and bankruptcies etc etc. why on earth would anyone drop 150,000 into your pockets?
Pensacola has always been about friends and the beach - not about JC's parties. Beach party has been fun in the past - but everything else is always tragic.