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ChineseSat: Party with the Marxists in the Palace of the Plutocrats
In keeping with the Eric Mann Watch, if you’re not too busy Saturday night perhaps you should drop by the Crystal Ballroom in the Biltmore Hotel to celebrate with Los Angeles’ favorite transit adovocates - the B.R.U. and Labor Strategy Center.
It’s not yet clear whether the esteemed philosopher, theologian and transit engineer will show (please, oh please Fuhrer Mann come to teach us how racist we rail lovers all are), but free food and comedy at the Biltmore is enough to get me to consider swinging by. And heck if they have an open bar I might stay the night.
Hopefully, I can get in the door after having my cover completely blown.
I’m sure at 1 a.m. they plan to burn the place down, so I advise leaving before 12:30 a.m. lest you spend the rest of the weekend in jail sleeping next to some buff guy with a name better suited for a rottweiler.
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is this is a black tie affair? or can we wear bright yellow shirts?
But before donning a new frock and crashing the champagne socialist soiree, don’t forget to spring for a table, buying a single ticket could make you look tight:
Tickets $125
Donor Tickets $250
Table for ten $1250
Donor Table $2500
great title! if only I had an award to give.
So did you go? if so, please write a follow-up, it sounds truly hilarious.
First off, kudos on the headline. +10 internets for that. Second, did anyone happen to check out this absurd event?
I have gone to many of these events in the past. The people are nice to talk to before the event, but they generally are politically way left of left.
Then the event starts. You all find a table and sit. Many of the tables are bought by groups and nonprofits that support Eric Mann.
You get your food, eat and the show starts. Eric’s wife leads some type of native dance demonstration and the room gets all hyped up.
Then you all stand and sing some sort of famous Communist song and the passion is really high.
Then the Eric Mann players demonstrate some type of theme that oppresses bus riders. One year, I think it was a play on how men hit on cute woman and ogle them and lust after them and make comments that are plain nasty. The things that the female bus riders must endure.
Then, it’s showtime. The begathon starts. All the poor volunteers who’ve slaved to make the BRU great are one by one going to donate their hard earned cash to the cause.
So, I start counting the money pledged. One night it reaches $9,000 and another night $11,000.
How can this be? If you poke around The Transit Coalition website, you can find all of Eric’s tax returns from 1997 until the latest one in 2005. If you really look deep, you’ll find that about 11 friends of Eric chip in about $1,000,000 each year. And sometimes the BRU only gets $100,000 more than that.
But the point of the event is to make the attendees believe that they give the most to support and maintain the activities of the BRU.
By the way, Eric and Lian Mann take home between $200,000 and $300,000 each year. They also get all their other expenses covered such as travel, accomodations, phone, supplies, food, incidentials, car, fuel, clothes, cell and any other deductable expense.
Simply put, Manuel slaves to make $30,000 per year, like all the other BRU teammembers. And Eric gets the big bux and the frills.
So, now you know about the party!