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Wed Jun 29, 2022, 06:31 PM Jun 2022

Georgia Tech hotel hosting conference by election deniers

Georgia Tech hotel hosting conference by election deniers
By Chris Joyner, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 29, 2022

A meeting of activists spreading debunked theories about the 2020 presidential election, vaccine misinformation, and conspiracy theories about supposed global “shadow government” will take place this holiday weekend in an unexpected place — the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The Nations in Action “Solutions and Strategy Summit” is scheduled to be held in the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, a midtown hotel run by the Georgia Tech Foundation, the university’s non-profit fundraising arm. Nations in Action, an organization founded by former Georgia lobbyist and Republican activist Maria Zack, bills the conference as an opportunity “to learn strategies and tactics to win America back.”

“Gain the latest intel on election fraud, the shadow government, globalist control, and how COVID has been weaponized against us from the whistleblowers and insiders who know,” the group said on its website. “Receive training and brainstorm on strategies to restore government and stop bad actors (politicians, parties, media, and government officials).”

The speakers are fringe figures, some of whom have espoused antisemitic conspiracies about Jewish control of government and the media or debunked claims about alleged health impacts of 5G cellular technology, among other beliefs.

More at link: https://www.ajc.com/news/investigations/georgia-tech-hotel-hosting-conference-by-election-deniers/TII3F5KBDNFQFNPIKQPFOJDR6I/

This Maria Zack loon, by the way, was the founder of a PAC supporting Ted Cruz in 2016 but has since become a full-bore MAGAt and one of the most ardent pushers of the bizarro Italy-hacked-the-voting-machines conspiracy theory. More on that from Wonkette:
https://www.wonkette.com/remember-italygate-turns-out-the-people-behind-it-are-as-authentic-as-pasta-with-ketchup
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Georgia Tech hotel hosting conference by election deniers (Original Post) Pinback Jun 2022 OP
This sucks. Ga Tech is my Alma Mater and I'm disgusted. MLAA Jun 2022 #1
Yes - our tax dollars at work. Pinback Jun 2022 #3
This sucks. Ga Tech is my Alma Mater and I'm disgusted. MLAA Jun 2022 #2
I hope sane Ramblin Wrecks can greet them. Ilsa Jul 2022 #4
I complained by leaving messages with the Ga Tech foundation (not the actual school) who MLAA Jul 2022 #5

MLAA

(18,534 posts)
1. This sucks. Ga Tech is my Alma Mater and I'm disgusted.
Wed Jun 29, 2022, 07:31 PM
Jun 2022

Going to start making calls and sharing this with 20 or so graduates I keep loosely in touch with.

Pinback

(12,830 posts)
3. Yes - our tax dollars at work.
Wed Jun 29, 2022, 08:02 PM
Jun 2022

I can’t believe a state institution is allowed to be even remotely associated with anything like this, even if it’s only the GT Foundation and at a hotel not quite on campus. Disgusting.

MLAA

(18,534 posts)
2. This sucks. Ga Tech is my Alma Mater and I'm disgusted.
Wed Jun 29, 2022, 07:31 PM
Jun 2022

Going to start making calls and sharing this with 20 or so graduates I keep loosely in touch with.

Ilsa

(62,192 posts)
4. I hope sane Ramblin Wrecks can greet them.
Mon Jul 18, 2022, 03:26 PM
Jul 2022

And in doing so, remind us that technology is our friend. There's bound to be something disruptive, yet harmless that can be done to aggravate them.

MLAA

(18,534 posts)
5. I complained by leaving messages with the Ga Tech foundation (not the actual school) who
Mon Jul 18, 2022, 04:40 PM
Jul 2022

owns the hotel. I also left messages for the president of the School. I had several college friends do the same. I got no response. A friend got a measly mouth statement from the school.

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