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Music Publicist Says She Was Fired By Email For Attending - Trump Rally

Posted: Oct 25th, 2020 - 12:15 pm

When Danielle Reiss attended President Trump’s campaign rally in Henderson, Nevada, on Sep. 13, she had no idea it would cost her job.

Reiss is a music publicist partnered with Pop Off, a Boston-based advertising agency that connects publicists like Reiss with artists. She signed a contract in August under which Pop Off would refer artists to her, and she would give the agency a percentage of the money she earned from helping referred artists with publicity. In early September, Pop Off connected her with her first client.

But on Sept. 13, Reiss went to a campaign rally for President Trump. Afterward she posted on social media a photo of herself with a “Make America Great Again” sign and the caption: “I saw our president speak in Anaheim, California in 2016. Yesterday, I watched him speak in Las Vegas, Nevada. God Bless America.”

Four days after the rally, Reiss says she received an email from Pop Off announcing the agency’s plans to terminate their business relationship as soon as their contract ended.

“We saw your latest Instagram post in which you held a ‘Make America Great Again’ poster,” the email said. “From this, we infer that you support the policies and ideologies of Donald Trump’s administration, which blatantly undermine the values we uphold at Pop Off.”

The email, which appears to be from Pop Off President and Chief Financial Officer Ben Silvers, adds that the agency will continue working with Reiss until February 2021, but after that “we will be terminating our professional relationship with you and will cease all partnership activities.”

The email Reiss received cited the agency’s commitment to “stand for equality, inclusion, and kindness in everything we do,” before expressing the agency’s decision to terminate any future partnership with Reiss.

“There’s nothing less diverse or less inclusive than a company who terminates someone because they have different beliefs,” Reiss insisted. “Diversity also includes diversity of thought and diversity of opinions.”

Despite agreeing to continue working with Reiss until February, Pop Off has not sent her any clients since she received the email. Reiss also says she was excluded from Pop Off’s company-wide meeting in October.

Meanwhile, Pop Off has shared political views on its Twitter account. On Sept. 24, just a week after Reiss received the termination email, Pop Off re-tweeted a video encouraging people to vote. It included the hashtag #VoteHimOut.

Pop Off Agency and Silvers did not respond to a request for comment.

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Music Publicist Says She Was Fired By Email For Attending - Trump Rally (Views: 508, 2020-10-25, 12:15 pm)
- Intentionally getting someone fired for being pro-Trump - is a hate crime, not much different than (Views: 265, 2020-10-25, 12:17 pm)
  - She still has her freedom of speech... - Anon (Views: 354, 2020-10-25, 3:17 pm)
    - If expressing one's point of view - results in censure or his job (Views: 280, 2020-10-25, 5:41 pm)
      - That's what is so disturbing, not the fact that she got - fired but some people think it's okay (Views: 273, 2020-10-26, 5:29 am)
        My significant other saw a story.... - sm (Views: 258, 2020-10-26, 7:01 am)
        Yep. And you can bet on the - Democrats' flying monkeys (Views: 238, 2020-10-26, 6:58 pm)
    - Is this what America - has come to?? (Views: 267, 2020-10-25, 8:54 pm)
    - Yet this company has many Twitter references to voting - Trump out, so there is bias. (Views: 257, 2020-10-26, 4:49 am)
    - Wow. Is that true for religious freedom, too? Like baking - cakes? (Views: 252, 2020-10-26, 4:56 am)
    - Pop Off has shared political views on it's Twitter account - including the hashtag #VoteHimOut. (Views: 252, 2020-10-26, 5:03 am)
    - This is a form of voter intimidation. Vote my way or - lose your job, like the days of (Views: 259, 2020-10-26, 5:12 am)
    - Then if I was your boss, I would fire you - THEY DID TAKE AWAY HER FREE SPEECH (Views: 258, 2020-10-26, 1:37 pm)
  - Nobody got her FIRED. - Anon (Views: 312, 2020-10-25, 3:21 pm)
    - Your response would be - entirely different if this was (Views: 279, 2020-10-25, 5:48 pm)
    - Technically, they can't fire her if she has a contract. - Technically, they are letting her (Views: 426, 2020-10-26, 5:20 am)
    - yeah - she did get fired - SO EVERY SINGLE ATHLETE TAKING A KNEE (Views: 262, 2020-10-26, 1:31 pm)
  - So much for "diversity and tolerance" of the left. - I see a lawsuit in the future. (Views: 293, 2020-10-26, 4:51 am)
  - Find another agency that loves this country. Find an - agency that allows freedom of (Views: 290, 2020-10-26, 5:27 am)
- Just disgusting the way the left is taking away freedom of speech, - something they once championed! (Views: 233, 2020-10-25, 12:36 pm)
  - Liberals did that - They still do (Views: 250, 2020-10-25, 6:01 pm)
  - The Dems have lost their way - anon (Views: 255, 2020-10-25, 8:22 pm)
- I can't imagine why Pop-Off owners stayin America. - They would be more at home in China (Views: 381, 2020-10-26, 5:18 am)
- This is not the "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" - Democrat Party. They are Marxists. (Views: 248, 2020-10-26, 5:43 am)