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Should Battle Creek have spent $93k hosting Trump campaign? (Original Post)
LessAspin
Jan 2020
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Ridiculous. Not fair for a city to use funds from people with many political views to absorb costs
Karadeniz
Jan 2020
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muntrv
(14,505 posts)1. City should have demanded payment up front or else no rally.
Obviously rally won out.
Karadeniz
(23,501 posts)2. Ridiculous. Not fair for a city to use funds from people with many political views to absorb costs
To facilitate the GOP view.
safeinOhio
(34,267 posts)3. Cereal City making lots
of money off cheap cereal crops thanks to Dimwit Donnie.
3Hotdogs
(13,525 posts)4. This is one good thing about living in N.J. The primaries are settled by the time N.J. votes.
We get no say. But we also don't put up with ads and our taxpayers don't have to pay for rallies.
marble falls
(62,457 posts)5. I am, too - especially if tax payer bucks are in that pot.