"Mike Randall, Vice President of the Fallen Officers Foundation, which organizes the Blue Bowl, says things started going south when he allegedly got a text from Hagel saying there were serious issues with the event, specifically that the speakers would cause local political issues.
The Blue Bowl speaker list was bipartisan. It included Gov. Gavin Newsom’s public safety liason, Trump supporter Scott Baio, who went to the same church as Sgt. Helus, as well as Trump-supporting singer Joy Villa, who was to sing the national anthem.
Randall says in a phone call, Hagel questioned why the Trump supporters were invited.
“He basically said over and over in the conversation this is not Trump country, that slogan ‘Make America Great’ is not favorable, popular, within 1,200 square miles, that we don’t want Republicans here, I could not believe it… We were totally floored by this comment, ‘the only thing,’ and I quote, ‘the only thing you coulda made this worse, Mike, was to invite dick Cheney and Sarah Huckabee Sanders,’ and I went…wow are you kidding me?” Randall said."
Could liberals get any more petty?
‘■■■■ the family of the fallen Deputy, our partisan politics is more important.’
This is just flat out wrong. It’s not a political event. Speakers from both sides of the divide were scheduled. I may not agree with Scott Baio’s politics, but no one should argue against his speaking at a memorial for a member of his church. And a major point of the rally was to raise money for the victim’s family. Now that won’t happen.
Bad move by Tim Hagel. One I’m guessing/hoping will come back to haunt him at election time.
What environment? Where an isolated incident of misbehavior is used to tar half the adult population of this country? Oh, I think there’s plenty of blame to spread around for that.
I’m sorry…the toxic environment that we are witnessing today has been created by libs and media because. They still haven’t gotten over losing to Trump.
