Posted on 04/02/2016 8:33:19 AM PDT by conservativejoy
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump may want to avoid West Hollywood when he campaigns in California ahead of the state's potentially decisive June 7 primary.
Lindsey Horvath, the mayor of West Hollywood, Calif., which is located in the heart of Los Angeles County and home to a sizable population of gay men, penned a letter to Trump this week explaining that he is unwelcome in her city.
"With the primary making its way to California, as West Hollywood's Mayor, I want to make very clear that your campaign of violence and intimidation is not welcome in our City," she wrote in the letter.
"From mocking people living with disabilities to classifying entire ethnicities as violent criminals to persecuting specific religious communities, Trump has pursued headlines in this election season with reckless abandon," Horvath later explained in an op-ed for the Advocate.
Horvath, an outspoken LGBT activist and West Hollywood's youngest elected mayor, described herself as "deeply disturbed" by Trump, who she claimed has "gone beyond [his] right to express a political point of view or policy differences."
"As Mayor of West Hollywood, it is my primary responsibility to keep our community safe," she wrote in an email to the Washington Examiner.
According to Horvath, West Hollywood was previously welcomed politicians from both parties to hold campaign events in the city. "[But] those same Horvath courtesies will not be extended to the Trump campaign," she claims.
The 34-year-old mayor has already instructed City staff that they are able to refuse to issue special events permits to Trump should he attempt to schedule a rally in the Los Angeles County city, and "such actions are well with [their] right[s]," Horvath told the Examiner.
With a little over two months left to go until Trump competes in California's Republican primary, Horvath has also called on the other 87 mayors in Los Angeles County to follow suit and block the billionaire from campaigning in their cities.
A University of Southern California/Los Angeles Times survey released last Sunday showed Trump polling just 7 percentage points ahead of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the Golden State. California awards 172 delegates, the most of any state, on a proportional basis to the winner of is Republican primary.
Blocking free speech? Discrimination?
Uh, hey horvath. Embrace diversity. Isn’t that one of the left’s mantras?
Trump needs to go right in front of city hall and campaign his buttox off.
Eff this little fascist effing ‘mayor’.
Hey toots, it ain’t “your” city.
The Fascism is strong with this one.
An LGBT activist complaining about someone aggressively pursuing media attention seems a little pot/kettle to me.
I hope he goes there just to tick them off.
Gaystapo and Fagscism.
Isn’t it amazing how casually the Leftist totalitarians simply ignore all rights in our Constitution when they disagree with someone?
Banning a Presidential candidate from your city?
What will she do, send police to the city limits to enforce her list of proscribed politicians?
Please try little freak job. Please. The result will be beyond funny.
Fill the potholes. Pick up the trash. That’s her responsibility.
Lecture other people.
Tell people that there is no freedom in your town.
Make your town look like a KKK haven.
Not her responsibility.
Somehow, I think I may see a lawsuit in her and the city’s future.
Liberals are the most hate-filled, mean-spirited, envious, resentful, vicious, close-minded, violent, murdering, censoring, horse-punching, book-burning, ignorant, uneducated, unskilled, childish, prejudiced, racist, women-hating, man-hating, perverted, thieving, destructive, American-hating, Christian-hating, muslim-loving, communist, vulgar, dirty, smelly, regressive, restrictive, prohibitive, bed-wetting, cop-killing, and scared little lying thumbsucking idiots God has ever created.
Yep, they preach tolerance, but once they gain power, their inner Fascist comes right out.
CA is NOT proportional.
Holy heck.
How is the media so ignorant?
DISCRIMINATION!!!!!!
They especially LOVE diverse opinions. /s
30,000 Small Town Mayors in USA Ban Gays From Entering Their Towns
Trump, who is VERY good at people who diss him, will remember this when he gets to the Oval Office. Then he can say his famous words. YOU ARE FIRED.
That might give her the ‘event’ she craves. Maybe he should file a legal complaint for tampering with an election.
Imaginary grievances.
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