Garland mayor says community would have been better off without Geller, event

[TexasTowelie]

Garland Mayor Douglas Athas thanked his city’s police publicly Monday night. This afternoon he broadened his retrospect on the Sunday evening incident in which two gunmen were killed at the Curtis Culwell Center.

He wishes Pamela Geller would not have chosen Garland for the American Freedom Defense Initiative event.

“Certainly in hindsight, we as a community would be better off if she hadn’t. It was an event not for Garlandites or Texans.

“Her actions put my police officers, my citizens and others at risk. Her program invited an incendiary reaction.

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[elleng]

1. Damn right they would have been better off without her.

[Fred Sanders]

2. The "two wrongs makes a right " folks need to listen to logic and learn a bit about the witchy woman messenger of hate hiding

behind free speech to advance and spread the hatred.

Hatred begets hatred, it is not sociological rocket science.

And free speech is intended to be used as a shield, not a sword.

[muntrv]

3. In related news, water is wet.

[tanyev]

4. I wonder if ISDs and local governments that rent out meeting rooms

to the public are going to revisit their policies after this. My city started doing this not too long ago, and I bet the only thing they considered at the time was the nice extra revenue stream it would generate.

[derby378]

5. How did they even hoodwink the GISD into approving meeting space for the contest, anyway?

I think someone on the school board needs to answer a few uncomfortable questions.

[procon]

6. What a lame excuse!

The Curtis Culwell Center is a publicly owned building operated by the Garland Independent School District's elected board. Pamela Geller waved some cash around, talked a bunch of Republican BS word salad, and signed a rental contract, so tjey chose to let her host her bigotry event there. After the fact, the director now says they will
"review policies for booking event centers".