A fundraiser planned for February in Florida for US Senator Josh Hawley was canceled on Saturday when Loews Hotels decided to withdraw from the event.
Loews’s cancellation was one of the most recent examples of disagreements that Republicans faced after the January 6 rebellion at the United States Capitol in Washington.
This happened after Florida liberal lawyer Daniel Uhlfelder obtained a pamphlet for the Hawley event and posted it online, referring to Hawley as a “traitor” and asking the hotel chain why he was supporting the Missouri Republican .
Uhlfelder praised Loews’ decision, saying the company “did the right thing” by canceling Hawley, who was among Republican Party lawmakers who were leading the effort to oppose Democratic Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory over President Trump.
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“It is a good corporate responsibility,” said Uhlfelder, according to Orlando Sentinel.
Loews owns the Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando, where Hawley would be the featured guest at a family-oriented event from February 12 to 15 organized by Fighting for Missouri, a group that raised more than $ 272,000 for the senator this year past, Sentinel reported.
After Uhlfelder posted the pamphlet online, Democratic lawmakers and anti-Trump groups put pressure on the hotel chain, Sentinel reported.
Critics included US Congresswoman Anna Eskamani, D-Fla., And The Lincoln Project, a group of anti-Trump Republicans, according to the newspaper.
Uhlfelder attracted media attention in May, when he dressed up as Grim Reaper and visited Florida beaches to embarrass visitors and criticize Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis for not shutting down recreational areas amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Later, the lawyer himself received criticism when he was caught in a crowd of protests against George Floyd in June.
Earlier this month, Hawley lost a deal with publisher Simon & Schuster, which canceled the senator’s book, “The Tyranny of Big Tech”, after the January 6 riot.
Hawley criticized the decision, accusing the editor of bowing to the “awake crowd”.
In an opinion article on Wednesday, Hawley also rejected the idea that he had helped incite violence on January 6.
“Much of the media and many members of the Washington establishment want to deceive Americans into thinking that those who raised issues incited violence, simply by expressing concern,” Hawley wrote in the Southeast Missourian. “But the democratic debate is not mob violence. It is, in fact, how we avoid this violence.”
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Meanwhile, former employees of Claire McCaskill – the Democrat Hawley defeated for his Senate seat in 2018 – formed a super PAC with the aim of ousting Hawley in 2024, the Politician said. The anti-Hawley group is called JOSH, from Just Oust Seditious Hacks, the report said.
If Hawley’s camp was intimidated by the move, it didn’t show.
“We hope Claire McCaskill and her team will be just as effective in this campaign as they were in the last,” Hawley’s spokeswoman Kelli Ford told Politico. “They wasted more than $ 60 million in 2018 – and lost – after Missouri residents rejected McCaskill’s failed liberal policies.”