Army Ten Miler and Marine Corps Marathon May Be Cancelled

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Anonymous wrote:Isn’t this funded by tickets????

Tickets? Like speeding tickets?

I'm assuming the issue is not for lack of funds for the race (there are entry fees and I believe private companies pay a lot of $$ to 'sponsor' it - I honestly have no idea if any govt. funds are used for this race, except maybe the wages of the soldiers who work the event by manning water stops, etc.)

I’ve run both races, and my husband is a Marine who has worked at the Marathon. The Marines manning the aid stations do not get paid anything additional to work there. They are “voluntold.”
At least in my husband’s experience, the only way to get out of working, is to run the race.

ODAR.

? What does that mean?

Other Duties As Required. Check your employment contract. It's always in there.

[Anonymous]

I love jarheads

[Anonymous]

I hope we never have it again under King Trump. More like a hotdog eating contest.

[Anonymous]

The shutdown is troubling for many reasons but not because running races might be canceled.

[Anonymous]

This whole thing can be privatized as well just like everything else.

[Anonymous]

There is a clean, non-partisan CR just sitting there for Chuck Schumer to agree to. No politics, just a clean CR.

Schumer is refusing. This is all on him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a clean, non-partisan CR just sitting there for Chuck Schumer to agree to. No politics, just a clean CR.

Schumer is refusing. This is all on him.

+1

It’s embarrassing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a clean, non-partisan CR just sitting there for Chuck Schumer to agree to. No politics, just a clean CR.

Schumer is refusing. This is all on him.

It's wild to see people acting like just constantly voting for CRs because you can't actually agree on a real budget is normal and fine. Especially when one party has the house, senate and WH! All they have to do is make an agreement amongst themselves and they can make a whole budget. They shouldn't need Dems at all and it's not the job of Dems to facilitate the dysfunction of just voting for endless CRs because the majority party can't get it's $hit together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a clean, non-partisan CR just sitting there for Chuck Schumer to agree to. No politics, just a clean CR.

Schumer is refusing. This is all on him.

how long would the can be good for? 3 mo?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t this funded by tickets????

Tickets? Like speeding tickets?

I'm assuming the issue is not for lack of funds for the race (there are entry fees and I believe private companies pay a lot of $$ to 'sponsor' it - I honestly have no idea if any govt. funds are used for this race, except maybe the wages of the soldiers who work the event by manning water stops, etc.)

The issue is that the race goes through land that is operated by the national park service. I ran MCM in 2013. It was my first marathon, I was a furloughed Fed, and very relieved when the shutdown ended early enough that the race could proceed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:totally fine.

Release the Epstein files and all this goes away.

Oh wait, Republicans own the House & Senate and Presidency, they have enough votes darn that Esptein file.....!!!!!!!

Why didn't Biden release the files?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is exactly the kind of thing that should be cancelled during the shutdown. A shutdown with only certain federal workers not being paid but services still continuing is not really a shut down. I would also like to see members of congress and their staff not be paid during a shutdown.

I do feel sorry for the people who have been training for months. I also feel sorry for the many people who are not receiving paychecks due to elected representatives not doing their job to take care of the budget, AGAIN.

Do you want everything to shut down?

I think if the government is shutdown- shut it all down. No air traffic control, no social security, no health insurance, all of it- then this would never happen. Congress has one job- pass a budget.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a clean, non-partisan CR just sitting there for Chuck Schumer to agree to. No politics, just a clean CR.

Schumer is refusing. This is all on him.

how long would the can be good for? 3 mo?

7 weeks. end right before thanksgiving

[Anonymous]

Any word on whether the race is on this weekend?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The sad part is this is the 50th Marine Corps Marathon, and they increases the number of entries. For many people, this would be their first marathon, and it sucks that it may be suth down because our government is run by a bunch of bables.

So next year will be the 50th.