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Gridiron Dinner, an annual D.C. tradition, canceled over coronavirus concerns
"I'm sorry to have to announce that the Gridiron Club & Foundation is canceling its 135th anniversary dinner this coming Saturday," the group’s president, Craig Gilbert, said in an email to club members. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and USA Today network journalist told POLITICO that while no one had asked that the dinner be canceled, those discussions began in recent days in light of a rapidly shifting public health landscape and questions and concerns raised by club members. "We've had the dinner in wartime, we've had it amid civil strife, we've had it amidst all kinds of upheaval and turmoil," he said. "But this was a different case because it just raised health issues, you know, issues of public health. And we didn't want to put people at risk." The yearly gathering of politicians, the media and Washington's elite, which features satirical skits skewering top officials and self-deprecating humor, has long been a tradition in the nation's capital. Posted by: Besoeker 2020-03-11 |
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