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GSA Nixes New Vegas Conference

Sin City conference canceled in wake of uproar

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 11, 2012 8:04 AM CDT

(Newser) – In the wake of all the uproar over its $822,000 conference in Las Vegas in 2010, the General Services Administration has decided it may not be a good idea to return to Sin City this year, the Washington Post reports. Thus, the GSA axed "GreenUP 2012 Training Conference and Vendor Showcase," an event focused on environmentally friendly goods and services that had been planned for April 25—despite the fact that the event was to be just one day, held at a decidedly less exciting hotel (the Hampton Inn Tropicana) with no pricey entertainment. The acting administrator says all future conferences will be reviewed.

Traffic on the Las Vegas Strip streaks past the replica of the New York's skyline that forms the New York New York hotel, November 16, 2001, in Las Vegas, NV.
Traffic on the Las Vegas Strip streaks past the replica of the New York's skyline that forms the New York New York hotel, November 16, 2001, in Las Vegas, NV.   (Getty Images)
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n230099
Apr 11, 2012 9:48 AM CDT
Balking on this makes it sound like their previous venture was a bad decision. If you're "all in" you do it again and if there's blowback you just say "What...you don't have cocaine and hookers in your budget? Who''s fault is that?" Never back off....
B-Diddy
Apr 11, 2012 9:00 AM CDT
They should hold the conference in their own conference room. Or Let the Vendors finance it, since they are the ones that are supposed to woo the GSA.
 

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