“It’s shocking that they don’t just stay until they figure it out,” says Audrey Fix Schaefer of the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA), speaking about Congress ad…
), speaking about Congress adjourning Thursday without taking up federal legislation to relieve businesses hardest hit by the pandemic. While many Americans are in distress without a relief package, Schaefer believes that the nation’s clubs and small theaters stand the least chance of being able to ride out a long quarantine and survive, given their “first to class, last to reopen” status.
Well, I am not the Congress whisperer. I cannot predict their activity. If I would have predicted it, I would have thought these bills would have been passed a month or two ago, just based on the obvious need, and here’s something you can solve — boom! But I did hear that Senator McConnell said, “Go back home, but be able to come back on 24 hours’ notice.” I hope he has to pull that trigger to say, “Come back in 24 hours,” and they have an agreement of some sort.
There are a lot of businesses that have been helped by the past programs of PPP, but our industry is not, because the whole premise behind that, which is very well meaning, is to hire employees back. We’re shut down. We can’t. We wish we could. So we’re not able to take part in those PPP programs. And it’s notorious how the SBA loan program hasn’t worked.
Do you feel like the members of Congress were getting the point, at least, regardless of action getting stalled? And any of these different pieces of legislation that you hoped for would be folded into a general COVID-19 relief package, right? With the beginning of this campaign, we knew that we needed to have all of our customers be aware of the risk that all of these now 2,600 members are facing, and to have their voices heard. So we started a website called SaveOurStages.com so that all the venues and the promoters and the festivals could email their customers and say, “Hey, listen, normally we would be telling you about upcoming shows so you could buy tickets to them. But now we’re here to tell you: We need help.
How would you define “a drop in the bucket” in this situation, as far as what it would take in federal money to reasonably make a big difference? Washington, D.C., in 2008, really came into its own in a way that was palpable. I moved to D.C. when I was 14, when my family moved down from the New York area. And there was just really hardly any place to go downtown. There were government workers and association workers, and as soon as it was nightfall, everybody got the heck out.
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