Nugent paid $16,000 NOT to appear...

Town Paid Ted Nugent $16,000 To NOT Appear At A Local Event

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.

Wow...Cool. Paid $16K NOT to show up because it was a "family friendly" event and he wasn't welcome....

Imagine my surprise....

:pop

Sounds like Ted made some easy money, good for him!

Some Dems must be in charge of the annual budget organization and spending plan.

Freezeman wrote: Some Dems must be in charge of the annual budget organization and spending plan.

ACTUALLY, I think some R's found his diatribe despicable (McCain for instance, and others) and
distancing themselves seemed like a pretty SMART idea....glad to see Texas is wising up ( not that I am tremendously impressed with Texas).....when something is seriously stupid and over
the top it NEEDS to be called out...JMO....."Out Front" called him out in a pretty dramatic way
and I was elated to witness that.

Paying $16,000 to keep a despicable moron away from their event must have seemed like a bargain.

They had a contract with him, they broke the contract by deciding they didn't want him to play. They did not pay him not to play.

That's the most twisted logic I've ever seen, but considering the source...


Actually, YES, they ARE paying him "not to play", and the $16K is penalty for breaking the contract...But you knew that.

I wouldn't want this moron around young children and dumb teabaggers either...