The president of the Kennedy Middle is demanding $1 million in damages from a performer who canceled a scheduled Christmas live performance on the Washington, DC, venue in protest of its current title change.
Chuck Redd has led the Kennedy Middle’s “Jazz Jams” Christmas live performance since 2006. However final Friday, he pulled the plug on this yr’s efficiency following Donald Trump’s hand-picked board of trustees voting to rename the venue “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Middle for the Performing Arts.”
“Once I noticed the title change on the Kennedy Middle web site after which hours in a while the constructing, I selected to cancel our live performance,” Redd confirmed to The Related Press.
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Now, Kennedy Middle president Rick Grenell has responded by saying he plans to hunt $1 million in damages from Redd over what he referred to as “this political stunt.”
“Your determination to withdraw on the final second — explicitly in response to the Middle’s current renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to avoid wasting this nationwide treasure — is traditional intolerance and really expensive to a non-profit Arts establishment,” Grenell wrote in a letter obtained by The Related Press.
Doubtlessly simply as expensive for a nonprofit arts establishment just like the Trump-Kennedy Middle is just not having its personal area title, however who am I do inform Grenell easy methods to do his job?
