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 The Greater Phoenix Tea Party Patriots group has pulled the plug on Pat Boone and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, cancelling their Sept. 22 "Birther" bash at the city's Celebrity Theatre "due to inadequate ticket sales." 
 
 The venue's website touts an "intimate atmosphere of this 2,650-seat theater in the round" with an "extremely rare revolving stage." 
 
 Prices of entry ranged from $10, for tickets purchased in advance, to $25 if you wanted a "Meet and Greet" with the Maricopa County sheriff, who is pushing for a "Congressional investigation into the fraudulent documents produced by the [Obama] administration." 
 
 The group's website has posted a blog entry confirming the decision to nix the show. 
 
 "We apologize for any inconivienience (sic)," organizer Chris Rossiter wrote, promising that further probes into the validity of President Obama's birth certificate "will be pursued in earnest." 
 
 When contacted by ABC News, Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin said she had no idea that Arpaio, Boone, or Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, a doctor who spent five months in prison after he refused deployment to Afghanistan, were scheduled to headline the affiliate's gathering. 
 
 "I didn't know about it about until you told me 120 seconds ago," Martin, who, along with Sarah Palin, was named to Time magazine's 2010 "Most Influential" leaders list, told ABC News today. Tea Party Patriots Group leaders in Arizona did not respond to requests for comment. 
 
 It's been an eventful summer for Arpaio, "America's Toughest Sheriff." On July 19, the same day he first appeared in court to face accusations he engaged in a systematic campaign of racial profiling, Arpaio convened a press conference in Phoenix, promising to unveil a big break in his "independent investigation" into the validity of the president's birth certificate. 
 
 But supporters were to be disappointed. With no substantial revelations to report, he launched into a tirade against the White House. 
 
 "Show us the microfilm," he said, dismissing the electronic birth certificate released last year by President Obama. "I said it a while back. Show us the microfilm and we'll all go back home and forget this. 
 
 "We wanted to clear the President of the United States. That was my mission, but it hasn't happened that way." 
 
 Since then, the racial profiling suit has been dismissed and the feds have dropped a separate abuse-of-power investigation. But Arpaio still faces damaging charges that his office failed to pursue more than 400 sex crimes cases between 2004 and 2007. ||||| Not even the promise of crooner Pat Boone singing oldies from a spinning stage could save what was intended to be the premier birther event of the year later this month in Arizona. 
 
 Organizers of the gala, which would have featured Boone alongside Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and some of the nation’s other prominent conspiracy theorists, broke the news online Friday that it was canceled “due to inadequate ticket sales.” 
 
 The Sept. 22 event was meant to bring together people from throughout the nation who believe Barack Obama’s birth certificate is fake and therefore he is ineligible to be president. Organizers planned to use it to call on Congress to take up Arpaio’s yearlong investigation into the documents. 
 
 The announcement was disappointing to the few people who did plan to attend, as evidenced by a handful of web postings about the cancellation. It didn’t take long for true believers to spin elaborate conspiracy theories about why the event was called off. 
 
 One theory could be found on the Facebook page of Linda Bentley, an Arizona tea party activist who had been promoting the event. A visitor to her page wrote that it had been doomed because Arpaio was unwilling to take his probe even further and investigate the president for murder. 
 
 “The REASON the EVENT by Sheriff Joe & his Cold Case POSSE was CANCELLED is because the Sheriff & others are TOO DUMB to SEE the MURDERS Barack Obama had his Security Adviser John Brennan commit on Obama’s Gay Lovers in Chicago,” the visitor wrote. 
 
 Besides Boone and Arpaio, the event was also set to feature former Army Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, who was court martialed and sentenced to six months in military prison for disobeying orders to deploy to Afghanistan. Lakin refused to go because he said he didn’t believe Obama was in office legitimately. 
 
 The venue, Celebrity Theatre, would have featured seating in the round and a spinning stage in the center. It normally hosts more mainstream events like concerts for touring rock bands. But the nature of this event obviously took some explaining for the owners. Even before the cancellation, the theater posted a disclaimer on the event’s listing page. 
 
 “Celebrity Theatre does not endorse any political party,” it said. “The views and opinions of this event do not state or reflect those of the Celebrity Theatre, its partners or sponsors.” 
 
 (h/t Phoenix New Times)
– If a "birther" jamboree starring Pat Boone and Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio sounds like your idea of a good time, you should have bought a ticket sooner. The September 22 event, organized by Greater Phoenix Tea Party Patriots, has been called off due to poor ticket sales, reports ABC. Terry Lakin, an Army doctor who went to prison for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan, was also booked to speak at the event, which was supposed to take place at Phoenix's 2,650-seat Celebrity Theater. Tickets were $10 in advance, or $25 including a "meet and greet" with the controversial sheriff, whose "Cold Case Posse" concluded that President Obama's birth certificate is "definitely a forgery." The cancellation has spawned conspiracy theories of its own, reports Talking Points Memo, which dubs the event "Birtherpalooza." The event was called off because the sheriff is "TOO DUMB to SEE the MURDERS Barack Obama had his Security Adviser John Brennan commit on Obama’s Gay Lovers in Chicago," wrote an odd visitor to the Facebook page of one of the organizers.