Veterans ball canceled, organizer missing
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Jan 19, 2009 14:15:20 EST
If you bought tickets to the Veterans’ Inaugural Ball, plan on staying home.
The ball, which was to be held Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington, D.C., has been canceled and the promoter, Dante Hayes of the nonprofit Congressional Education Foundation for Public Policy, cannot be located for an explanation.
As of 1:30 p.m. Monday, the links on the foundation’s Web site where tickets were sold — at prices topping $385 apiece — no longer work.
The St. Regis referred questions about the canceled ball to a phone number they had for Hayes, whom they identified as the sponsor and promoter. No one returned voice mails left for the foundation.
The Commander-in-Chief’s Ball at the National Building Museum and Heroes Red, White and Blue Ball at the Warner Theater are separate events and are still scheduled take place Tuesday night.
Performance artist Michael Israel, who paints large murals to hard-pounding music in front of crowds, said he had been scheduled to appear at the Veterans’ Inaugural Ball but was notified last week by the hotel that the
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