{"id":662956,"date":"2021-08-19T17:51:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T21:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=662956"},"modified":"2021-08-19T17:51:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T21:51:24","slug":"mcauliffe-holds-marthas-vineyard-fundraiser-as-covid-hits-island-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mcauliffe-holds-marthas-vineyard-fundraiser-as-covid-hits-island-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"McAuliffe Holds Martha\u2019s Vineyard Fundraiser as COVID Hits Island Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fmcauliffe-holds-marthas-vineyard-fundraiser-as-covid-hits-island-hard%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=662956&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 readability=\"30.36\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Attendees paid thousands to enjoy cocktails while local hospitals complained of &#8216;bursting at the seams&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1333763330_736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1333763330_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1333763330_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1333763330_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tVirginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 August 19, 2021 5:45 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"85.501757126123\">\n<p>Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe held a swanky fundraiser on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard as the liberal vacation hotspot <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/obama-variant-super-spreader\/\">struggled to battle<\/a> a spike in coronavirus cases that follows former president Barack Obama&#8217;s birthday party.<\/p>\n<p>McAuliffe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kenvogel\/status\/1428375858289520643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charged<\/a> attendees thousands of dollars to attend the Wednesday event, which he held at Sen. Mark Warner&#8217;s (D., Va.) $7 million island mansion, according to a copy of the invitation obtained by <em>New York Times<\/em> reporter Ken Vogel. While donors enjoyed &#8220;cocktails and conversation in support of&#8221; McAuliffe, however, local medical professionals rushed to deal with a spike in COVID-19 cases nearly two weeks after Obama held his celebrity-filled soir\u00e9e on the island. After the former president pledged to &#8220;scale back&#8221; the party over coronavirus concerns, hundreds of guests, including celebrities John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, and Don Cheadle, flocked to the island to attend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re bursting at the seams,&#8221; Martha&#8217;s Vineyard Hospital president and CEO Denise Schepici told reporters Wednesday. &#8220;We are pretty jam-packed. \u2026 We&#8217;re hoping there will be a reprieve in September. But that&#8217;s a prayer right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cases in the island&#8217;s surrounding county have increased 179 percent since Obama&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/al-sharpton-obama-birthday\/\">sophisticated<\/a>&#8221; guests began to arrive for the birthday bash.<\/p>\n<p>The fundraiser marks McAuliffe&#8217;s latest attempt to nationalize his fundraising efforts as he works to defeat GOP opponent Glenn Youngkin. Last week, the Democratic candidate attended a Las Vegas fundraiser with Nevada governor Steve Sisolak (D.). McAuliffe ditched a candidate forum hosted by a disabilities advocacy group to fly to the event, a decision that drew a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/disabled-community-slams-mcauliffe-after-va-dem-left-forum-to-fundraise\/\">swift rebuke<\/a> from Virginia&#8217;s disabled community.<\/p>\n<p>Warner purchased his Martha&#8217;s Vineyard mansion from the late <em>60 Minutes<\/em> journalist Mike Wallace in 2011. The waterfront estate consists of &#8220;two dwellings connected by a covered brick veranda and two car garage&#8221; and boasts six bedrooms, five bathrooms, a private dock, and private beach, as well as a screen porch that provides &#8220;unsurpassed water views to the shores of Cape Cod.&#8221; Warner&#8217;s residence is just miles away from Obama&#8217;s $11.75 million, 29-acre estate.<\/p>\n<p>At the fundraiser, Warner announced his intention to investigate President Joe Biden&#8217;s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, according to Vogel. Event &#8220;hosts&#8221; paid $10,000 to attend, while &#8220;co-hosts&#8221; and &#8220;sponsors&#8221; paid $5,000 and $2,500, respectively, the invitation shows.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections Attendees paid thousands to enjoy cocktails while local hospitals complained of &#8216;bursting at the seams&#8217;  Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe \/ Getty Images &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}