"My view is that he shouldn't do it," said one person associated with the event.
Not that anyone associated with the event is complaining about the glare.
Some of these symptoms include reexperiencing of the event, avoidance of stimuli associated with the event, emotional numbing, and hyperarousal.
He pointed to Coca-Cola's torch run as an example of how a client associated with the event without over-hyping its link.
Martin competed in the 100m and 200m backstroke finals at the 1962 Commonwealth Games and has remained associated with the event, having been instrumental in creating the Commonwealth Youth Games and in Glasgow's successful bid to host the 2014 event.
Ben Bessell, Commercial Insurance Chief Executive for IAG, which owns CGU, said the company was motivated to help Tropfest because the event provided opportunities to up-and-coming filmmakers, as well as small businesses associated with the event.
The Twitter hashtags associated with the event were largely ignored by users of the influential social network and given the current obsession with online reaction, this must rank as disappointing.
Recently, however, Kristol, Himmelfarb, and Kramer, along with John Patrick Diggins, a professor of history at the CUNY Graduate Center, told the organizers that they no longer wished to be associated with the event in any way.
Trent Duffy, a committee spokesman, said that all costs associated with the event would be paid by the committee and that about 400 people would attend, with the guest list drawn from longtime supporters of the party.
