A planned fundraiser in February in Florida for U.S. Senator Josh Hawley was canceled on Saturday when hotel chain Loews Hotels decided to take part in the event.
The Loews cancellation was one of the latest examples of outbursts Republicans faced after the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
This comes after Daniel Uhlfelder, a liberal lawyer in Florida, obtained a flyer for the Hawley meeting and posted it online, referring to Hawley as a ‘traitor’ and asking the hotel chain why he supports the Republican from Missouri .
Uhlfelder praised the Loews decision, saying the company was ‘doing the right thing’ by canceling Hawley, who was among GOP’s lawmakers, leading to the attempt to win Democrat Joe Biden’s victory over Electoral College about resisting President Trump.
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“It’s good corporate responsibility,” Uhlfelder was quoted as saying by the Orlando Sentinel.
Loews is the owner of the Portofino Bay Hotel in Universal Orlando, where Hawley would be the guest at a family-friendly event hosted Feb. 12 to 15 by Fighting for Missouri, a group that raised more than $ 272,000 last year for the senator, Sentinel, collected. report.
After Uhlfelder posted the pamphlet online, Democratic lawmakers and anti-Trump groups put pressure on the hotel chain, the Sentinel reported.
According to the newspaper, US Representative Anna Eskamani, D-Fla., And The Lincoln Project were a group of anti-Trump Republicans.
Uhlfelder attracted media attention in May when he dressed as the Grim Reaper and visited the beaches of Florida to embarrass visitors and criticize Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis for not covering the recreation areas amid the coronavirus pandemic did not close.
The lawyer himself later received criticism when he was spotted in June over the protesting George Floyd protests.
Earlier this month, Hawley lost a deal with publisher Simon & Schuster, which canceled the senator’s book “The Tyranny of Big Tech” following the January 6 riots.
Hawley blew the decision and accused the publisher of bowing before the ‘awake mob’.
In a regular Wednesday, Hawley also pushed back on the idea that he helped incite violence on January 6th.
“Many of the media and many members of the Washington Department want to mislead Americans into thinking that those who have raised their concerns about violence are simply expressing their concerns,” Hawley wrote in the Southeast Missourian. “But democratic debates are not violence in the crowd. That is really how we avoid that violence.”
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Meanwhile, former staff members of Claire McCaskill – the Democrat who defeated Hawley in 2018 for his senate set – formed a super PAC with a view to ousting Hawley in 2024, reports Politico. The anti-Hawley group is called JOSH, for Just Oust Seditious Hacks, the report reads.
If the Hawley camp is intimidated by the move, do not allow it.
“We expect Claire McCaskill and her team to be just as effective with the campaign as last time,” Hawley spokeswoman Kelli Ford told Politico. “They wasted more than $ 60 million – and lost – in 2018 after Missourians rejected McCaskill’s failed liberal policies.”