PA Town’s Mayor To Trump: Pay Up Front For Your Rally

Penn Live reports:

Former President Donald Trump is coming to Erie Saturday for a campaign rally, and the city is hoping he will stay around long enough to pay the nearly $40,000 it says he owes from the last time he held an event there. Actually, Erie Mayor Joe Schember said that because the city has yet to receive the $35,129 it says Trump owes it from his 2018 rally, it will attempt to get the former president to pay in advance this time for Saturday’s 6 p.m. rally at Erie Insurance Arena.

Go Erie reports:

After Trump’s October 2018 rally, the city made a formal request for a $35,129 reimbursement from Trump’s campaign committee. However, the city received nothing from the Trump campaign, despite the committee, at that time, reporting more than $35.4 million on hand, according to Federal Election Commission filings. “Trump has been able to bring in millions of dollars for his campaign,” Schember said. “He should be able to easily pay these costs to cities.”

Trump has owed El Paso, Texas over $560, 000 since his February 2019 rally.

After stiffing the city for five years, the mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania, Joe Schember, is making an all-out effort to get Trump to cough up the tens of thousands of dollars he owes before allowing the grifting con-man to hold another MAGA-fascist rally.https://t.co/E0cywjXmXN

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