ted nugent is an embarrassment & a feral idiot. somehow it seems strange to me that he played that amazing solo in "journey to the center of the mind" when he was in his teens.
On Saturday, March 22, 2014 8:36:22 AM UTC-4, t bedford wrote: > On the one hand, only half of his usual guarantee, on the other hand, > righteous bucks for doing nothing! > > This Town Paid Ted Nugent $16,000 To NOT Appear At A Local Event > by Paige Lavender > > Rocker Ted Nugent just made big bucks to *not* show up somewhere. > > The town of Longview, Texas paid Nugent $16,000 to not appear at the > town's Fourth of July Festival. According to KLTV, a city spokesman said > Nugent was "not the right feel for this kind of community event." > > The city had reached a verbal agreement with Nugent, scheduling the rocker > as the headliner who would play inside the Maude Cobb Convention and > Activity Center during the town's Independence Day celebration. To break > that agreement, the town paid Nugent half of his guaranteed performance fee > of $32,000 from Maude Cobb's annual budget. > > The move comes amid criticism of comments Nugent made about President > Barack Obama in January 2014, calling him a "subhuman mongrel." Nugent, who > campaigned with Texas Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Greg > Abbott amid the controversy, apologized for those comments in February. > > Abbott said he was moving on from the controversy over Nugent in late > February, but his ties to the rocker remain a prominent talking point of > both sides of the governor's race. Abbott's rival, Texas state Sen. Wendy > Davis (D), called the Attorney General's embrace of Nugent an "insult," > while former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin (R) cited the rocker > in her endorsement of Abbott. > > "If he is good enough for Ted Nugent, he is good enough for me!" Palin > wrote on her Facebook page. > > The situation with Longview is not unique. Nugent was removed from a > concert lineup at a prominent military base in 2012 after saying he would > be "dead or in jail by this time next year" if Obama were re-elected that > year. > > And is it just me, or does our #1 Republican rock star seem to feel as if > he is somehow "entitled" to this money?!? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
