Display Morenow for a bit of stupid local politics
For years there was an annual motorcycle event held in down town palm springs called the American Heat Motorcycle & Hot rod weekend. They would block off the main drag and all the motorcycle riders would park their motorcycles and hot rods along the road and all up and down both sides of the street were vendors selling every kind of thing you could think of.
Then in 2015 there was some kind of violence at a motorcycle event in Texas and our city politicians decided to cancel the American Heat event out of the fear that something violent might happen here - the event has remained canceled and has not returned
now to the strange part ever since 2013 the Outlaw motorcycle club the Mongols have held their annual meeting in Palm Springs with 100's of bikers coming to town (no vendors)
So - I don't get it - the city cancels an event that brought money and was mostly well to do people with high end motorcycles and vendors paying for space because of the fear of violence yet they allow the annual meeting of a large group that is labeled as an "outlaw" motorcycle group to continue to come
Oh and just to be clear in all of the years that both of these events have taken place there has never been a problem with violence - hell we get more arrests when they hold the White Party event for gay men
It sure would be nice if the American Heat event returned - it was a much more diverse group, and by now would probably even include owners of Slingshots and perhaps some of our vendors
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