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.
Trump might end up losing the fudge packer vote.
I think Trump should arrange a meet n’ greet between these LGBT snowflakes and their uniparty establishment allies, the followers of Sharia...just have them drive in from San Bernardino (short trip).
They could Rally and demonstrate together, maybe find a new squeeze even. Just don’t put bacon bits in the potato salad.
Just let a Southern mayor ban a gay politician from his town. Just imagine the fireworks!
Nah. No lawsuits. Just bus in about 40,000 supporters.
AND HE WOULD TALK *RIGHT ON THE STEPS OF CITY HALL*.
He’d cinch California with that one move.
What is she going to do if he does come to “her” city??? Arrest him??? For what???
What a sexist!
Stupid witch. Trump has to challenge this moron.
I don’t remember Trump having an opinion one way or another on Felching
You have to love the irony: She thinks Trump would violate some (frankly lesser, but still very important) civil rights against intimidation and thug violence, so she purports to violate his and his supporters’ even-more-important rights to free speech and free assembly.
Watch, that city is one he will visit and have a rally in.
But Cruz is welcome? Sorry, cj, this is not good PR for Mercer’s chosen candidate.
Lynch would file a court case against him and send FBI agents to escort the Sacred Queer into town so he could advocate pedophilia. Perhaps she would demand the townspeople hand over their boys to him, to assuage his anguish at being denied his "rights".
Remember Barry’s Truth Squad in Missouri?
I don’t agree with the decision of this mayor, either. Cruz has nothing to do with it.
Why aren’t these violators of the Constitution immediately removed from office? Did they not swear an oath to it?
Just Brown Shirts.
You can be sure he's going to do exactly that: walk right in and hold a press conference.
And the Enemedia will stand out front and interview HER while she spews her revolting hatred.
That would be great politics for him. No Repub has a chance in CA anyway, and the optics of the loony protesters (or the city itself) violating his right to free speech/ assembly would play well in Peoria.
Well, that's a little understated, but accurate, so I'll let it pass.
Is this the same Lindsey who once had a secret abortion?
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