Another many hour mashgiach assignment

I had agreed to work on 19 July beginning 8am. I got a phone call about 10 pm on July 18. I was to come in at 530. There were multiple events honoring Israel's President Herzog. One event set for 19 July had, a week previously, been for 70 guests but it kept increasing and by 10 pm the day before the event the guest list was for 170. This event was sponsorted by AIPAC. It was about a 9 hour job. There were also other interesting things about this set of events. Various levels of security were established for the different events. The badge shown is for the second most security intensive event. Also, at one event, beef and chicken was on the menu despite this being part of the 9 days before Tisha b Av. Given that a lot of non Jews were at these events I can certainly understand doing this but I was not the decision maker on it.