Houston's mayor has canceled the Texas Republican Party convention the city had planned to hold next week
Houston's mayor has canceled the Texas Republican Party convention the city had planned to hold next week, saying Wednesday afternoon that Houston, which is now one of the nation’s coronavirus epicenters, must “do everything we can to control the blazing fire we are battling,” while announcing the cancelation of the event that was expected to bring thousands to an indoor convention center in what many feared would be a coronavirus transmission nightmare....
Washington, D.C. The nonpartisan conference of mayors from cities with populations of 300,000 or larger meet annually in Washington, D.C.Mayor Sylvester Turner announced the cancelation Wednesday afternoon, saying that city lawyers had reviewed the contract Houston had with the Texas GOP and determined a cancelation was legally sound.
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