"I don't want to take away from anybody's experience or make it a big distraction," Jenkins said in February. "It is a celebratory event. I want the guys who choose to go to enjoy that. … Me personally, because it is not a meeting or a sit-down or anything like that, I'm just not interested in the photo op. … Over the last two years, I have been meeting with legislators, both Republican and Democrat, don't matter. If you want to meet to talk about advancing our communities, changing our country, I am all for that. But this isn't one of those meetings."