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Beto got a $21,000 invoice.
Trump got a $470,000 invoice.
Event was held the same day down the street from each other.
Libs claimed at the time that Beto had the bigger crowd…
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Did the Trump campaign contract for additional police, or did the city just decide they should pay? In other words, are these legal debts or just amounts the cities have a wish list for payments?
In a post that landed in Minnesota at 7:10 a.m., Donald Trump lashed out at the “lightweight mayor” for allegedly attempting to extort his reelection effort by slapping a $530,000 bill on an arena scheduled to host a “Keep America Great” rally Thursday night.
Have you researched this yourself, and are asking, already knowing the answer, or do you want others to do the research for you?
How about just using common sense to deduce the answer.
The safety of the president is paramount. Security is needed. If the Trump campaign isn’t negotiating for security from the cites he is visiting, and knowing exactly how much security they’ve got and where it’s stationed then the Trump campaign is stupid.
It’s not just one city, as the post you quoted but did not directly respond to made clear.
But, unfortunately, Trump has no need to worry. His billionaire friends will stump up and pay his debts, just as Clinton’s friends paid for his/hers.
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No, I didn’t research it. I just asked the question.
It looks like it is mostly two Democrat cities, Minneapolis and El Paso. Of course, one person has already posted about the very questionable allocation of costs in El Paso.
If these are just amounts the cities unilaterally came up with then no, they are not necessarily legal debts until a court says so.
It does raise the question that, in these Democrat cities, if anti Trump groups can cause the need for so much additional security and the city bills Trump,not the people who cause the need for security, can Republicans be charged out of their first amendment rights?
Of course the downside being that all the money you’re owed gets eaten up by lawyers fees.
Lets see. Lets check the gold standard on this. What would Obama do?
"A Secret Service official said Newport Beach city administrators are asking the wrong people to pay for police protection at presidential campaign events.
It’s the service that is responsible for the candidates’ security, not the campaigns, said Max Milien, an agency spokesman. Any cost concerns should be directed to the agency."
So people who owe more money are less obligated to pay. That sounds consistent with the Republican approach to taxation.
Or the municipality involved should not try to soak their political opposition.
Its all done with camera angles and deflections or maybe he hasn’t paid the paid supporters or the bus companies that ship in the paid attendees
Are they charging Trump the same rate as they charge Democrats for using the same venues? Maybe there’s some dispute about cities price gouging the Trump campaign.
The issue isn’t the cost of the venue, it’s the Trump and his campaign stiffing municipalities for the additional security.
Just like he was famous for stiffing contractors that had already completed work for his businesses.
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I was including security in the cost of [using] the venue. Blue cities order their police to stand down when violence erupts against Trump supporters, so what are they charging the Trump campaign for exactly? It’s not security.
Police, Firefighters, EMTs, and other emergency services personnel and infrastructure (command and coordination centers, etc.) are not part of the venue. The costs for additional security at taxpayers expense is a separate issue.
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Are they charging the Trump campaign the same as they charge their local representatives for coming to town?
Probably not, one would think that the security requirements are orders of magnitude higher for a Presidential visit then for a local school board member.
The question isn’t are they charging more, of course they will. The question is whether the RATE is different. For example if 3 police officers are required at a rate of $35.00 per hour for the school board member campaign rally for 1 hour with police there for 2 hours, the cost would be 3532 = $210.
However if security for a Presidential visit (just to as an example) starts months in advance, and police are needed the day before until departure (call it 24 hours) to secure roads, the venure, where the President will be staying etc. and its 2,500 police then you have 35250024 = $2,100,000 - costs that are the responsibility of the campaign or secret service.
(Disclaimer: The numbers above are to show the application of RATE being the same but charges being different. There are a lot of different government personnel that have to be reimbursed and those would have different rates for different amounts of time which can be weeks or months in advance for planning purposes and whether those personnel have to be called in for overtime to meet requirements.)
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Trump has a long track record of not paying his bills so forgive me for not giving Trump the benefit of the doubt on this.
Providing Security for the President is going to be exponentially more expensive than providing it for anyone else.
The President doesn’t need more security than a local school board member. That’s just silly.
The president has his own security detail. The city security is for the public coming to see the president. But blue cities don’t protect Trump supporters, so they are over-supplying workers who aren’t actually working. They are trying to gouge and scam conservatives, imo.
