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2 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
NEW: The New York Young Republican Club doesn’t plan to let a little thing like a deadly pandemic stand in the way of its annual gala in Manhattan—and already, there are questions about the group’s plans to adhere to public health restrictions trib.al/L72WHxs
In a statement to The Daily Beast, club president Gavin Wax claimed the soirée headlined by Sarah Palin and Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe would comply with what he called New York’s “capricious” guidelines trib.al/L72WHxs
Those guidelines include a 50-person limit on indoor gatherings–but a Facebook event for the gala with 68 people marked attending would suggest otherwise trib.al/L72WHxs
Wax—who said in a tweet Tuesday that he won’t take the COVID-19 vaccine—said he disagrees “with both lockdowns and capacity restrictions in principle, as they are unconstitutional and unscientific” trib.al/L72WHxs
“Our club has held its annual gala without interruptions for the past 107 years, through two world wars and the Spanish Flu,” he wrote in a statement.

Read the full story by @OliviaMesser here: trib.al/L72WHxs

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