“Our resources for law enforcement are critical and limited,” the mayor said of the costs for Trump’s campaign visit there last month.
By Mary Papenfuss | HuffPost
The city of Albuquerque has sent Donald Trump’s campaign a bill for $211,000 for a two-day September campaign visit in the area. The mayor said he wants the campaign to “pay our taxpayers back.”
“Our resources for law enforcement are critical and limited,” Tim Keller, the Democratic mayor of the New Mexico city, said in a statement.
“The president’s campaign stop in the Albuquerque area cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, including over 1,500 hours of police overtime that was required by the campaign,” he said. “We are asking the Trump campaign to pay our taxpayers back for the costs from his campaign stop.”
