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Mayor cancels Texas GOP convention
As COVID- 19 cases and deaths spike in Texas, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner canceled the Republican Party’s in- person convention scheduled for next week.
“The public health concern for our first responders, convention workers, and those who would have attended weighed heavily in our decision making,” Turner said on Twitter.
The convention was scheduled to take place from July 16- 18 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston.
“Houston is a hot spot right now in a global pandemic and we cannot have thousands of people gathering inside the George R. Brown,” Turner said at a news conference Wednesday.
The mayor said the city of Houston looks forward to hosting future conventions at a safer time.