A Tale of 2 invoices: Beto O'Rourke pays El Paso, which Donald Trump's campaign still owes $470,000

[TexasTowelie]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Actually, which it was depends on what street you stood on a chilly winter evening in El Paso, Texas.

On one side of town, raucous crowds gathered at the El Paso County Coliseum. With American flags and banners reading "Finish the Wall" displayed above him, President Donald Trump hailed his "big, beautiful" border wall as the reason for El Paso's low crime rate.

Outside the coliseum, thousands of protesters gathered. Marching along the Rio Grande, they joined former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke at the Chalio Acosta Sports Center for a counter rally to celebrate El Paso's immigrant culture. It marked a clarion moment for a prospective candidate testing 2020 waters, and heralded what many expected to come -- O'Rourke's official campaign kickoff. Just a few weeks later, he held his first official campaign rally in his hometown.

The bills came due for both: Beto For America owed the city $28,630.50 for his March campaign launch; he had already paid $7,609.14 of that as a deposit. The remainder was due May 24. They paid on time -- just under the wire -- with a check dated the day prior to the deadline.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tale-invoices-beto-orourke-pays-el-paso-donald/story?id=63350337

[tanyev]

1. No city should grant a permit for a Trump rally unless all previous debt is paid.

Hell, they should really demand cash in advance. I bet the town of El Paso isn't going to see a dime from Trump, and I would also bet that was the plan all along.

[riversedge]

2. Cheap Trump

[riversedge]

3. A month overdue and no check in sight, El Paso sent a warning to the Trump campaign of its looming p

........A month overdue and no check in sight, El Paso sent a warning to the Trump campaign of its looming penalty -- a letter, coincidentally, sent the same day Beto's check was cut.

[BeckyDem]

4. Seriously, who does Trump not owe?

Democrats Subpoena Deutsche Bank and Others Amid Trump Probe


By Billy House and Bloomberg April 16, 2019

Congressional Democrats issued subpoenas to Deutsche Bank AG and other banks to obtain long-sought documents indicating whether foreign nations tried to influence U.S. politics, signaling an escalation of their probes into President Donald Trump’s finances and business dealings with Russians.

http://fortune.com/2019/04/16/deutsche-bank-subpoena/

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Trump is a bum who doesn't pay his bills

Of course the MAGAts still believe he's a successful entrepreneur.