Anaheim, Riverside agree to $150,000 settlement in suit by Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene

This is what happens when you end free speech—you pay the price.

“Anaheim, Riverside and the Riverside Convention Center’s operator will each pay $50,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene that accused the cities of wrongfully canceling their 2021 rallies.

The two Congress members had scheduled a rally at the city-owned Riverside Convention Center in July 2021 that was later canceled after Raincross Hospitality Management Corporation, which has a contract to manage the convention center, backed out of hosting Gaetz and Greene’s planned rally. They filed their lawsuit in July 2023.”

For the Left, this is cheap.  It should have been real money–$15 million at the least, let it be painful so they do not do this again.

Anaheim, Riverside agree to $150,000 settlement in suit by Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene

Story by Michael Slaten, The Orange County Register, 10/31/24   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/anaheim-riverside-agree-to-150-000-settlement-in-suit-by-reps-matt-gaetz-and-marjorie-taylor-greene/ar-AA1thwbW 

Anaheim, Riverside and the Riverside Convention Center’s operator will each pay $50,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene that accused the cities of wrongfully canceling their 2021 rallies.

The two Congress members had scheduled a rally at the city-owned Riverside Convention Center in July 2021 that was later canceled after Raincross Hospitality Management Corporation, which has a contract to manage the convention center, backed out of hosting Gaetz and Greene’s planned rally. They filed their lawsuit in July 2023.

The settlement was entered in on Aug. 28 and signed by the involved parties in September and October.

A judge earlier this year rejected the cities’ attempts to be dismissed from the case.

“I am pleased to announce that we’ve reached a settlement with the cities of Riverside and Anaheim, California, and the Raincross Hospitality Management Corp,” Gaetz said in a prepared statement. “In 2021, Marjorie Taylor Greene and I had our First Amendment rights trampled when left wing city council members conspired to cancel our planned fundraiser and rally in California. Needless to say, we didn’t take this sitting down, so we sued, and we’ve now won, bigly.”