Photo: Amanda Haggard



While Pith would've loved to have reported from inside U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn's campaign event featuring White House advisor Kellyanne Conway at the Omni Nashville Hotel, it turns out Blackburn didn't want any members of the media inside.

We reached out late last week to Blackburn's team asking about press credentials and never heard back, but decided to head over there to see if we could get a glimpse into the fancy affair.



The event, which was called "Women of Distinction," included a co-chair reception, a table host reception and then a luncheon. Patrons who paid $2,500 got an invite to the co-chair reception, a spot at the host reception and seats for 10 at the lunch; $1,500 bought a spot for one at the table host reception and seats for 10 at the luncheon. Individual tickets for the luncheon were $150.

Outside the reception and luncheon, more than 200 protesters and a handful of counter protesters gathered to chant, sing and hold signs or rev motorcycle engines, play bad '90s pseudo metal and scream about protesters not having jobs, respectively. (It's worth noting that the counter protesters also appeared to be away from work as well.)

Amid the protesting, several well-dressed women heading into the event stopped to snap photos with with the counter protesters — many of which were wearing guns on their hips and "Special Forces Brotherhood" motorcycle vests.

If you got inside and want to tell me what it was like, shoot me an email at ahaggard@nashvillescene.com. I'm sure Blackburn's constituents who didn't have anywhere between $150 and $2,500 to spare on a Monday afternoon would be very interested in what happened.

We don't have any visual evidence that the Trump senior advisor was actually here in Nashville, so we'll still be playing "Where in the World is Kellyanne Conway?"





Photo: Amanda Haggard



Photo: Amanda Haggard



Photo: Amanda Haggard





