GOP Reps Gaetz and Greene Ignore 3 Cancellations and Show Up Anyway in Riverside
The Riverside Press Enterprise reports that Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz staged a brief “free speech rally” outside Riverside City Hall on Saturday
Diane Haithman | July 17, 2021 @ 9:38 PM
The ever-controversial Republican Representatives Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene decided to show up in southern California on Saturday for a “free speech rally” despite the third cancellation of their “America First” rally earlier in the day, this time by the city of Anaheim.
According to a local newspaper report, Gaetz and Green dropped by Riverside City Hall to hold a “free speech rally” Saturday evening.
By City News Service
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ANAHEIM (CNS) - An Anaheim venue canceled an ``America First rally scheduled for tonight that would have featured speeches by Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Matt Gaetz of Florida, prompting the two Republican firebrands to schedule a ``peaceful protest at Riverside City Hall instead.
``A planned America First rally at a private venue in our city is cancelled. The city of Anaheim shared public safety concerns with the operator, and those concerns are shared by the operator, Anaheim officials said in a statement Saturday morning.
The event had already been canceled at two previous venues, in Laguna Hills and Riverside. It was scheduled to take place at the Anaheim Event Center at 2232 S. Harbor Blvd.
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Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz will hold a peaceful protest outside the city hall of Riverside, California, after a third venue set to house an America First rally hosted by the pair pulled out just hours before they were set to take the stage.
After the Anaheim Event Center, a private event venue in the city, canceled plans to host Gaetz and Greene s Saturday night rally, the pair called on supporters to gather outside Riverside City Hall, a venue Gaetz that said is going to be even better than we imagined. The cancellations show how afraid the Left is of our message. But they can’t cancel our movement! . This is HAPPENING in SoCal! he continued.
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In this June 30, 2021, photo, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., left, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., sit in the House chamber during the vote to create a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Hundreds attend America First rally in Riverside organized by Gaetz, Greene By City News Service Riverside UPDATED 6:35 PM PT Jul. 17, 2021 PUBLISHED 7:45 AM PT Jul. 17, 2021 PUBLISHED 7:45 AM PDT Jul. 17, 2021
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (CNS) Hundreds of people attended some to support, others to protest a thrice-canceled rally against communism organized by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Florida, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, outside Riverside City Hall Saturday.