Lindsay Lohan statue for Galway to be paid for by millionaire.

ikmartraubt

How come Galway gets all the fun with Healy-Aimes and Che Guevara? Friend sent me this from Florida tonight.


Cuban exile millionaire offers to pay for statue of Lindsay Lohan in Irish city that wants to honor Guevara

(MIAMI) A reclusive Florida-based businessman who is angered by the decision of an Irish city council to erect a statue of Che Guevara is attempting to ridicule the decision by offering to fund the installation of a monument to movie star Lindsay Lohan, saying that her links to Galway are stronger than those of Guevara.
Florida-based philanthropist and Cuban exile Elviro Sanchez made the offer today after being informed that moves to erect the Guevara statue in Galway, Ireland are to proceed next month when the City Council meets to vote on the matter.
The decision to honor Guevara has led to a barrage of criticism from prominent US and Irish politicians, with Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, currently the most senior Republican woman in the U.S. House, directly contacting Irish prime minister Enda Kenny about the matter.
She was supported by Congressman David Rivera in opposing the statue which has been approved in principle by the Galway council.
However fruit plantation millionaire Sanchez who fled Casto's Cuba with his three brothers has said that he is incensed by the decision of the Council and said that if they can truly justify the Guevara decision on the grounds of genealogy, celebrity, and cost, then he will test their resolve with the offer of funding for a statue of colorful actress Lohan, whose father Michael was born in Galway.
In a statement released through his Orlando spokesman, he confirmed the offer was genuine and mail offers were being forwarded to the Galway council this week. "Yes, I am mocking the ridiculous senseless decision to honour Guevara but my offer to find the Lohan statue is genuine. I am hoping this will be placed on the agenda of their next meeting. I have contacted some councillors who are opposed to the Guevara statue and they are to help facilitate this being tabled at the next meeting, so that both statues will be discussed on the same night.
"I am confident that sufficient support will be forthcoming for my offer, even if the Guevara decision goes ahead," he said, adding that he has been vociferous in his opposition to the Guevara plan, as well as being in contact with the Irish government and Ms Ros-Lehtinen's office.
"My researchers have discovered that Ms Lohan's connections with Galway are stronger than those of Che Guevara. Also, they have noted that her celebrity is greater because she has five times as many mentions on Google as Guevara, so the connection, the celebrity and the funding are in place," he said.
"Now it is a matter of seeing if my offer will be tabled and accepted by the council members."
Sanchez fled Cuba with his three brothers and all three worked on the family fruit plantation business before selling it to transnational Hazlo for $800million in 2006.

AngryLips

This would be AMAZING

celty

Source for this?

Horsebox_twenty

There is no source for this. It is a complete fake. There is no Cuban-Floridian millionaire called Elviro Sanchez. This is all just part of a clumsy internet attempt to get mainstream newspapers to pick up the fake "story". The story actually hasn't been printed anywhere. It has been posted as a comment on a few other unrelated news stories, such as on the Orlando Sentinel, to make it pop up on Google news if someone does a search. There are a few recently added spurious references to "Elviro Sanchez" on various websites, such as Wikipedia, all in an attempt to make some lazy journalist believe the whole thing is true. It's a complete set up. Only Irish Central in New York fell for it. It's probably the clumsiest attempt of this type of hoax I have ever seen.

celty

ikmartraubt,

You have a lot to answer for. You have put this post on two separate threads and it doesn't add up. Perhaps we're due an explanation ... or are you a Troll!

I wouldn't mind there has been enough rubbish coming from America about the Che statue plan already, without some idiot trying to fan the flames with a pathetic made-up story.

It seems Irish Central fell for it, but soon deleted it when they realised they'd made a mistake.

The Idyll Race

celty wrote: »

ikmartraubt,

You have a lot to answer for. You have put this post on two separate threads and it doesn't add up. Perhaps we're due an explanation ... or are you a Troll!

I wouldn't mind there has been enough rubbish coming from America about the Che statue plan already, without some idiot trying to fan the flames with a pathetic made-up story.

It seems Irish Central fell for it, but soon deleted it when they realised they'd made a mistake.

It's a bloody good story though!

celty

The Idyll Race wrote: »

It's a bloody good story though!

Don't know about that. The 'real' story about a Cuban-American Congresswoman giving off about a Galway plan was good enough. This seems to have been written by a lazy journalist with too much time on his hands, who was trying to lure others into a trap... but has now been caught. This 'non story' made The Sunday Times today.

Made Irish Central look like fools, although they deleted it quick enough

The Idyll Race

celty wrote: »

Don't know about that. The 'real' story about a Cuban-American Congresswoman giving off about a Galway plan was good enough. This seems to have been written by a lazy journalist with too much time on his hands, who was trying to lure others into a trap... but has now been caught. This 'non story' made The Sunday Times today.

Made Irish Central look like fools, although they deleted it quick enough

Made the Sunday Times though.. non story or not