Huntington Beach officials’ alleged dislike towards the operator of the Pacific Airshow—a three-day event showcasing aviation flyovers along the city’s shore—were added as reasons why the last day of its 2021 show was canceled and not only due to an oil spill off the city’s coast, according to a recent court filing in a lawsuit between its operator, the city, and its former mayor.
According to the June 30 filing in Orange County Superior Court, which amends the suit first filed by the air show’s operator in October 2022, former Police Chief Julian Harvey told Huntington Beach’s mayor at the time that “he was looking for any excuse to ‘screw’ [Pacific Airshow],” because of his “personal animosity” toward the show’s operators….