Kasich embarrassment: July 19 evening advertised to honor Ohio Gov. Kasich at Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame featured band that bashes Republican Party, band was on record as Republican bashers when declined invitation to play at GOP convention party in Tampa in 2012-CNN

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"Tuesday, July 19, 2016, An evening reception at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honoring Ohio Gov. John Kasich." "Ohio delegation to Republican National Convention plans events at Public Hall, Rock Hall, Great Lakes Science Center," cleveland.com, Andrew J. Tobias, 6/17/16

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7/20/16, "Third Eye Blind taunts GOP during convention, gets booed," CNN, Deena Zaru

"Third Eye Blind taunted Republicans Tuesday night (7/19) in a charity concert at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland during the party's convention, and a frustrated audience responded with persistent boos.

"@ThirdEyeBlind I have never been more disappointed," Twitter user Liza White tweeted.
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And in a single tweet the band indicated that they didn't care, tweeting, "good."
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The band bashed the Republican platform, asking the crowd, "Who here believes in science?" And lead singer Stephan Jenkins spoke out in support of LGBT rights before performing one of their greatest hits, "Jumper."
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His words set an overt political tone to the lyrics, which open: "I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend. You could cut ties with all the lies, that you've been living in."

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Twitter users, who posted videos of the show, reported that the band played some of their more obscure music like the 2009 song "Non-Dairy Creamer" and left before performing their 1997 classic hit, "Semi-Charmed Life," which many fans wanted to hear. 
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"Non-Dairy Creamer" implicitly criticizes the Iraq war and tells the story of "two gay Republicans."
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The band also responded to a tweet by a fan, and criticized a lack of diversity at the RNC, tweeting, "@SHudspath darling, we would never play the rnc. We played a charity event for musicians on call at the Rock and roll hall of fame."

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Jenkins wrote an op-ed in the Huffington Post in 2012 titled, "Why We Aren't Playing at the RNC," announcing that the band declined an offer to perform a private party at the GOP convention in Tampa that year, because, "They are in fact, a party dedicated to exclusion.""

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