"Here are two RUMORS going around on Reddit Long Beach. Tickets to the festival undersold to such an extent that the festival organizers could not pay vendors for the event, including the safety engineer vendor. Consequently the proper safety plans/documentation was not presented to the City of Long Beach and thus no permit was issued.
Rumor number two was that tickets undersold and so the festival organizer purposely did not submit documentation to the City of Long Beach, knowing this would cause the City to not permit the event. If the city was the cause of the cancellation the event insurance policy would pay the vendors with whom the event organizers contracted. If the event organizers announced "Tickets undersold. We are cancelling." then the event organizers themselves would still be responsible for paying the vendors they had contracted.
Again these are RUMORS. But they have enough plausibility that the LATimes should have waited to publish an article until reporters had been given enough time and resources to dig into the FULL story. I hope more reporting on this topic follows."
For the record, the LA comment sections on things like this can be pretty interesting. I'll be it was option two. The money dried up so the promotion was of the event was no longer funded and, lets face it, the main reason this sort of stuff was big was because of deep pocket funding that is no longer there and/or severely reduced.
Here is an excerpt from the Los Angeles Times article about this event comment section:
LA Times Pride Festival
"Here are two RUMORS going around on Reddit Long Beach. Tickets to the festival undersold to such an extent that the festival organizers could not pay vendors for the event, including the safety engineer vendor. Consequently the proper safety plans/documentation was not presented to the City of Long Beach and thus no permit was issued.
Rumor number two was that tickets undersold and so the festival organizer purposely did not submit documentation to the City of Long Beach, knowing this would cause the City to not permit the event. If the city was the cause of the cancellation the event insurance policy would pay the vendors with whom the event organizers contracted. If the event organizers announced "Tickets undersold. We are cancelling." then the event organizers themselves would still be responsible for paying the vendors they had contracted.
Again these are RUMORS. But they have enough plausibility that the LATimes should have waited to publish an article until reporters had been given enough time and resources to dig into the FULL story. I hope more reporting on this topic follows."
For the record, the LA comment sections on things like this can be pretty interesting. I'll be it was option two. The money dried up so the promotion was of the event was no longer funded and, lets face it, the main reason this sort of stuff was big was because of deep pocket funding that is no longer there and/or severely reduced.
USAID propaganda money is gone.
This sounds like the most plausible explanation. Very good reason.
All interesting rumors for sure.