• Kid_Thunder@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    Uh violating First Amendment rights? The parade organizers are a private entity not the government. It’s too bad a representative in state legislature doesn’t understand the Constitution.

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    Basabe responded, writing, “You have no right to exclude me, not as an individual nor as an elected official, nor may you attempt to set me up again with a bogus ‘public safety claim.’ I have always attended this parade peacefully.”

    So he’s saying the security/safety claim is bullshit.

    He also accused organizers of allowing “extremist” protesters “to agitate the crowds and incite violence against me for political purposes” during last year’s parade.

    Now he’s saying it isn’t.

    I thought the GOP was all about private entities refusing service to whoever they want and in a bigger sense less regulation from the ‘nanny’ government. I guess that only applies when they are being ‘discriminated’ against.

    • eldavi@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      the goal is to bankrupt the organization as much as possible and he’s using the legal system to do so; if the organization doesn’t respond, he automatically wins in this legal system, so they must spend $$$ on lawyers to fight the lawsuit.