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At Hat Hair, Beege Welborn hears Fabulous Fabulist Gov 'Less Wes Is Moore' Not Invited to WH Dinner UPDATE

The National Governors' Association (NGA) dinner is coming up. The event is hosted by the president at the White House, so that's who sends the invitations out.

And the fabulous fabulist, who is also the NGA's vice-chair, did get one in the mail, but the White House took it back.

Oh, Moore is in a serious snit, and Donald Trump is a racist.

...“This week, I learned that I was uninvited to this year’s National Governors Association dinner — a decades-long annual tradition meant to bring governors from both parties together to build bonds and celebrate a shared service to our citizens with the President of the United States,” Moore said in a statement Sunday. “… It’s hard not to see this decision as another example of blatant disrespect and a snub to the spirit of bipartisan federal-state partnership.”

...Moore also said on CNN that it was “not lost” on him that he is the only Black governor of a state.

“I find that to be particularly painful, considering the fact that the president is trying to exclude me from an organization that not only my peers have asked me to help to lead, but then also a place where I know I belong in,” he said. “I’m never in a room because of someone’s benevolence nor kindness. I’m not in a room because of a social experiment. I’m in the room because I belong there and the room was incomplete until I got there.”

The ego on dis guy. The problem with 'they only left the black man out' routine is that Trump had taken the Jewish governor from Colorado off the invitation list, too. So much for Moore's throwing the race card.

...According to the governors’ offices, the president also revoked invitations sent to Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D), the NGA’s vice chair; and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) to attend a second White House event scheduled to occur around the summit: a dinner for governors.

...Eric Maruyama, a spokesperson for Polis, said the decision to exclude the Colorado governor was “disappointing.”

“Gov. Polis has always been willing to work with anyone across the political spectrum who wants to help work on the hardest problems facing Colorado and America, regardless of party or who occupies the White House,” Maruyama said in a statement.

Now, the two governors might not have religion or skin hue in common, but they both have vicious, anti-Trump, pro-sanctuary state policies and rhetoric they share. Might that not be a common link?

I AM THE ONLY BLACK GOVERNOR IN THIS COUNTRY, AND I FIND THAT TO BE PARTICULARLY PAINFUL

Naturally, that doesn't play well to Moore's racial grievance pandering, but it is what it is. Moore looks excessively dense, parading himself as a victim of anything other than his own resistance tactics.

What's going to make his blatant race-baiting look even worse is when and if other Democratic governors are 'uninvited,' as the WaPo seems to think they will be, since some were apparently not invited to begin with.

Trump plans to keep Democratic governors out of traditionally bipartisan meeting

The White House did not explain why Democrats were not invited to the meeting. In addition, at least two Democrats were uninvited to a White House dinner, according to their offices.

President Donald Trump plans to keep Democrats out of a traditionally bipartisan White House gathering of governors typically held as part of the National Governors Association’s annual Washington summit, the organization said.

Oh, man. This is totally going to ruin Moore's whole schtick if every last Democrat gets Xed off the list. Did you know Wes Moore was a black man? >
 

It turns out there's a little more to the 'Trump dissed the ONLY BLACK GOVERNOR IN AMERICA' story, and darn - you knew there had to be. Many Democratic governors are banding together to boycott the dinner in solidarity with the only black governor in the country.

Now remember - as Wes Moore said above, it's so painful to him to have been excluded. 'Particularly painful,' are his exact words. Somehow, though, it wasn't as painful last year when Wes Moore didn't show up for that same dinner after being invited to the White House.

...It’s unclear why Polis and Moore were excluded from the dinner, but Leavitt said that Moore, the NGA’s vice chair, was invited last year and chose not to attend.

Well...hang on. That's kind of rude, isn't it? I imagine the White House had second thoughts about giving the only black governor in the country another chance to grandstand and decided they'd had enough. Here's some background on their feud this summer. Moore was going to stay home anyway. He's not kidding anyone.

Sometimes I wish Trump were a bigger person, but not always.