By Tom Ciccotta, Breitbart.com:
A scheduled event on MILO’s “Dangerous Faggot” tour at the University of Maryland was cancelled after university administrators hit students with a massive increase in security fees just days before the event.
After a bomb threat, which occurred during the tour’s stop at Florida Atlantic University, administrators at the University of Maryland increased security fees from $4,500 to $6,500. In response, the student group responsible for organizing the event created a GoFundMe page to raise the remaining funds.
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We at Terps for Trump regret to inform that we have run into some bumps regarding funding for this event.
Due to incidents bomb threats made at other schools that Milo had agreed to perform at and the general tensions with unruly students, the security team has increased our rate for their coverage to around 2000 dollars as they need extra officers/K9 units along with the forced change to a more expensive, venue (i.e Richie Coliseum) bringing the total cost of the event to 6500 dollars.
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We all love and appreciate Milo’s work and wholeheartedly want him to give his talk at our University, however we simply cannot afford to pay for this more or less enormous last minute bill by ourselves. At the end of the day, we’re simply a group of college students with a limited pool of income. If we are to make the event happen by ourselves, we would have to take out a large loan that would be extremely strenuous to pay back, adding to the financial burden of our members. After much deliberation with the rest of the group, we’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not in the best interests of our group to do that.
Unfortunately, the campaign finished short of its $2,000 fundraising goal. As a result, the “Terps for Trump” were forced to cancel the event.
This event has been cancelled by Terps For Trump due to the school rasing costs for the venue and security at the second.
Our organization cannot pay the $6,500 it will now cost to put on the event (Milo was coming for $0, these are 100% costs the school wants to run the event).
