Elihu Harris Was In Coma After Food Poisoning At NAACP Sofitel Hotel Meeting.
Former Oakland Mayor and California Assemblyman Elihu Harris was in a coma in the hospital after food poisoning at the NAACP State Meeting at the Hotel Sofitel Redwood City Thursday night, October 30th, 2014.
I called Elihu Sunday and he told me that he was not only in a hospital, but had two seizures there, and fell into a coma before being revived by doctors. I then called Mario Juarez, who was also at the NAACP dinner, and he said he was with Elihu until 1 AM Friday.
Of the 300 attendees, 100 got sick after eating the dinner.
There should be a criminal investigation as 100 people were poisoned and throwing up in the hotel’s lobby – 12 went to the hospital. Some media reports are that the cause wasn’t food poisoning, but Harris says that’s wrong, and it was indeed food poisoning.
Hotel Accused Of Discrimination In Manila
It’s really strange that that many people would be impacted. But even more strange is that the same hotel is the focus of a Twitter campaign blasting it for discrimination in the Phillipines.
I found this video:
“UNTV CEO Daniel Razon called on viewers to boycott the five-star luxury hotel, Sofitel Manila for intentionally dropping UNTV from their TV programming.
Aired July 14, 2014
GOOD MORNING KUYA
And this blog post…
DANIEL RAZON DECRIES SOFITEL MANILA BIAS VS UNTV, #NoToSofitel Trends
UNTV-BMPI Chairman and CEO Daniel Razon earlier (7/14/2014) called on viewers of his morning magazine program, Good Morning Kuya, to boycott the biased move by Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila (formerly Westin Philippine Plaza).
The hotel allegedly intentionally removed in its hotel TV programming UNTV, the only Philippine channel with focus on charities and public service.
As soon as the call was made by Razon, netizens took to Twitter to vent their sentiments to @sofitelmanila, instantly pulling the hashtag #NoToSofitel up the Philippines Trends ladder.
The incessant tweets from netizens, expressing their disappointments, frustrations and outcries were magnified instantly as #NoToSofitel peaked at No. 6 trending topic under Philippines before 12 noon. As of 1:30 PM, Philippine time, the hashtag is up at No. 3.
UPDATE: Since Monday morning (7/14/2014), the hashtag #NoToSofitel and #BoycottSofitelPH has sustained its place under Philippines Trends. Since Tuesday noon, more than 100,000 tweets were registered by the #NoToSofitel hashtag.
Observers note such move is against the station’s freedom of expression rights, an absurdity in a democratic nation like the Philippines. Netizens, however, viewed the action as an utter shaming of UNTV in spite of its kid-friendly shows, public service projects for the poor, marginalized and the neglected in the society.
Given the large Filipino population in the SF Bay Area, the hotel’s noted Filipino employees, and the ongoing Twitter note of a protest under “#NoToSofitelDay113”, could their be a connection?
Stay tuned.
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