[Royal Wulff]

If Chabot's people paid to rent the hall he can exercise controls like that.

You don't think he paid for that hall out of his taxpayer-funded Congressional expenses?

[muawiyah]

It really doesn't matter. Money is fungible. Maybe he paid for it with his last Christmas present from his elderly, frail grandmother. Maybe he did a stick up outside and took the money from a poor mother and her 6 kids. Maybe someone donated it to him.

If a hall is rented you have rights.

The term "public" is not being used properly in this debate.