{"id":1989919,"date":"2023-08-03T15:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T19:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-california-lieutenant-governor-asks-taylor-swift-to-postpone-l-a-concerts-to-support-striking-hotel-workers-shes-already-been-to-a-show\/"},"modified":"2023-08-03T15:46:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T19:46:48","slug":"dem-california-lieutenant-governor-asks-taylor-swift-to-postpone-l-a-concerts-to-support-striking-hotel-workers-shes-already-been-to-a-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-california-lieutenant-governor-asks-taylor-swift-to-postpone-l-a-concerts-to-support-striking-hotel-workers-shes-already-been-to-a-show\/","title":{"rendered":"CA Lt. Gov. urges Taylor Swift to delay L.A. concerts for hotel workers&#8217; cause. She&#8217;s shown support before."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdem-california-lieutenant-governor-asks-taylor-swift-to-postpone-l-a-concerts-to-support-striking-hotel-workers-shes-already-been-to-a-show%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1989919&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Eleni Kounalakis wants shows canceled for hundreds of thousands of fans<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<p>      \u200c  Taylor\u200c Swift \/\u2062 Getty Images<br \/>\n   \u2064<br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>California\u2019s Democratic lieutenant governor, who is running to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.),\u200b told Taylor Swift she\u200c should postpone her six-night tour stop in a show of support for\u200c Los Angeles hotel workers who launched the strike\u2064 over \u200cthe July 4 weekend. She herself doesn&#8217;t have to worry about missing a\u2063 concert since she already attended one of \u2063the pop star&#8217;s\u2064 Bay Area shows.<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant Governor \u2064Eleni Kounalakis \u200cled a union-sponsored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitehere11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Letter-to-TS-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.unitehere11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Letter-to-TS-Final.pdf&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1691173564337000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0Uho3zb27uWRoHgBZYIDgY\">open letter<\/a> from state Democrats urging Swift to postpone her shows. But just before\u2062 advising the star to kick back her tour dates,\u200d Kounalakis\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EleniForCA\/status\/1685729665657589760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/EleniForCA\/status\/1685729665657589760&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1691173564338000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3t8jvE3pOTcZXAu1dQb6EM\">posted<\/a> \u2064 a\u2063 photo and video\u2063 of herself\u2064 attending a Swift show in Santa Clara, California, on July 30. Hotel workers were protesting then, too. Swift \u200cadded a sixth show to the L.A. portion of her\u2062 wildly popular \u2063&#8221;Eras&#8221; tour, \u2064where\u200d she is slated to \u2063perform for an estimated 420,000 fans\u2014some of whom \u2062have paid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2023-07-27\/explaining-the-complicated-world-of-ticketing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2023-07-27\/explaining-the-complicated-world-of-ticketing&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1691173564338000&#038;usg=AOvVaw26uT6brPfnzP2VDn58QGJK\">thousands<\/a> of dollars for\u2064 tickets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your shows make our region\u2019s hotels a lot of money,&#8221; Kounalakis and\u2064 her fellow Democrats wrote on\u200b letterhead for\u200c the union Unite Here&#8217;s L.A. \u2062chapter released \u200dTuesday. &#8220;In Los Angeles, hotels are doubling and tripling what they charge because you are coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stand with hotel workers \u200dand postpone your\u200b concerts,&#8221; they \u2062wrote.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how Swift could postpone at the last minute an entire set of nearly sold-out shows. Swift&#8217;s U.S.\u200b tour extends through August and her international tour is scheduled through August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Kounalakis&#8217;s \u200bdemands are an example of\u200b hypocrisy from state Democrats, critics say, and follow on other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-nba-is-investigating-after-g-league-player-jeremy-lin-says-he-was-called-coronavirus-on-court\/\" title=\"The NBA Is Investigating After G-League Player Jeremy Lin Says He Was Called \u2018Coronavirus\u2019 On Court\">high-profile incidents<\/a> that have angered voters, such \u200cas Newsom&#8217;s decision to dine out at a five-star Napa Valley restaurant in the\u2063 midst of\u2062 strict COVID lockdowns. Democrats &#8220;need to\u200c shake off \u200bthe belief that they operate separate \u200dand above the rest of us,&#8221; said Matt Shupe, a\u200d California Republican strategist with Praetorian Public Relations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We knew this was troubling behavior when Governor Newsom ate indoors at the French Laundry during the height of the pandemic and it doesn\u2019t seem like it will never, ever get back \u2062to \u2062the non-hypocritical behavior \u2064we\u2064 deserve,&#8221; Shupe said.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom was caught maskless at a lobbyist\u2019s birthday dinner at the\u200b exclusive French Laundry restaurant in Napa \u200ceven as he had \u2064the public under \u2064the nation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-california-lieutenant-governor-asks-taylor-swift-to-postpone-l-a-concerts-to-support-striking-hotel-workers-shes-already-been-to-a-show\/\" title=\"CA Lt. Gov. urges Taylor Swift to delay L.A. concerts for hotel workers' cause. She's shown support before.\">strictest pandemic \u200clockdown orders<\/a>. Newsom and other Democrats were also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/another-image-of-newsom-not-wearing-mask-emerges-from-sundays-nfc-championship-game-at-sofi\/\">photographed<\/a> maskless at\u2062 an NFL championship game in Los Angeles when Californians were still ordered to cover their faces in public.<\/p>\n<p>Kounalakis \u2062was\u2062 one of more than 50 Southern California Democrats who asked Swift to postpone her shows at a powerful union&#8217;s behest. Also signing the letter was Orange County&#8217;s state senator Dave Min (D.), Rep. Katie\u2064 Porter\u2019s \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bipartisan-group-of-55-florida-sheriffs-endorse-marco-rubios-senate-reelection-bid\/\" title=\"Bipartisan Group of 55 Florida Sheriffs Endorse Marco Rubio's Senate Reelection Bid\">hand-picked candidate<\/a> to\u200b replace her in the U.S. House of Representatives\u200c who in \u2064May was caught lying to a\u200c cop about how much he drank, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dave-min-dui-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to video<\/a> of \u2063his DUI arrest.<\/p>\n<p><span>Kounalakis defended \u2062the letter in a statement \u2062to the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. \u200c&#8221;All \u200dworkers deserve dignity and fair wages,&#8221; she said, adding that she \u2062hopes &#8220;we \u200dcan use\u200c this moment\u200d to bring \u2062attention \u2062to the hardworking men and \u2064women who are\u200d the\u200d engine of our economy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles \u200cchapter of Unite Here, which organized the \u2064strike and the letter, has <a href=\"https:\/\/dbsearch.sos.ca.gov\/ContributorDetail.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contributed<\/a> more \u200cthan $1.3 million to California \u2064Democrats since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Kounalakis is the\u2063 only declared gubernatorial candidate in\u2064 California&#8217;s 2026 election, which is expected to be a crowded race. <strong><br \/> <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleni Kounalakis, California&#8217;s Democratic lieutenant governor and candidate for governor, urged Taylor Swift to postpone her six-night tour in solidarity with striking Los Angeles hotel workers. 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