EDC Rave Promoter Makes $75,000 Worth of Donations to Vegas Charities, But That Wouldn't Even Cover Extra Cops For Parties Here

By Dennis Romero Thu., Jul. 21 2011 at 8:01 AM

Categories: Raves

Colin Young-Wolff

A kiss at EDC in Vegas.

In June the controversial Electric Daisy Carnival rave moved from L.A. to Las Vegas, and organizers of have been trying to make us jealous ever since.

Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman called Los Angeles a "second-class entertainment venue" for letting the party leave. And that city's tourism officials are talking about expanding the gig into a week-long electronic music conference.

Now EDC's promoter is rubbing this in our face:

$75,000 worth of donations (in $25,000 thirds) to Vegas charities, handed over at an event yesterday at the city's nicest, newest Strip hotel, the Cosmopolitan.

Charity from a rave.

Well done, but ...

... that cash wouldn't have even covered the $92,000 worth of extra cops the LAPD says it had to put on big raves at the L.A. Coliseum/Sports Arena complex following last year's EDC controversies (the death of a 15-year-old girl who took ecstasy, 200-plus medical emergencies, and 60 drug-related arrests).

In fact the total policing cost to taxpayers for one night of raving (EDC last year was two nights and it expanded to three in Vegas) is about $208,000, although rave organizers claim a $42 million economic impact to L.A. -- including thousands of temp jobs.

In any case, it's clear that EDC wants to return to its hometown. Time will tell.

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GODRAVER

HEY DENNIS, YOU SHOULD FIND EVAN GUNNY...... HE HAS ALL THE TRUE INFO ON INSOMNIAC, WORKS FOR GO VENTURES, AND IS THE MAIN WITNESS IN THE EDC WRISTBAND SCAM...... YOU WANT REAL DIRT THAT WHO YOU NEED TO FIND

DOWN WITH INSOMNIAC, PASQUEL ROOTELA TRIED TO BUY OUT THE MONSTER MASSIVE LOCATION FOR 750K!!!!!!! AND ALL HE COULD DONATE HERE WAS 75K?!!!!

sounds pretty cheap to me? gonna buy out the competition for 750 but only give charity 75!!!

MONSTER MASSIVE FEATURING THE ONLY TIME IN THE UNITED STATES

ARMIN VAN BUREN "MIRAGE"

TO HELL WITH ESCAPE FOR CRACK LAND

EDC= ELECTRIC DEATH CARNIVAL

kchiles

Insomniac paid for the LVPD and Paramedics presence at this years event (thats right NO taxpayer money was used) and ON top of that donated to Vegas charities.

Los Angeles sure messed this opportunity up.Its not like people are not cracked out at these clubs in Hollywood. Look at Lindsey Lohan, like the LV mayor said, you cannot stop people from making stupid decisions.

There is money in letting people have fun and escape their mundane slave lifestyles, especially in this bad economy raves like these are a commodity. LA is becoming more and more a sh*thole on all sides of the table (rich or poor).

EDC is embracing this new Vegas EDM scene which is already causing MANY LA and SD residents to travel there.

Dennis Romero

Where are you getting this information that EDC paid for police in Vegas? It wasn't released to the media. You would think they'd want that known.

You mean people in Los Angeles and San Diego never knew about Vegas until EDC came along? I wonder if they built the 15 freeway just to accommodate the festival.

-Dennis

kchiles

"Insomniac has fulfilled their responsibility to financially support theentire cost of public safety resources for the Electric Daisy Carnival,"added Lieutenant Letkiewicz. "Taxpayers will not carry any financialburden for this event."

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