She Was FORCED To Remove A Sign From Her Own Property Because Of One Ignorant Complaint…
A Florida woman who pitched a sign supporting President Trump on her property for more than a year said the county ordered her to remove her sign after she added a phrase stating that she supports the national anthem.
Elaine Simmons, 72, of Minneola said she put the sign “Toot for Trump” up back when Trump was a candidate in November 2016 but that she didn’t receive any complaints until it was edited to add the latter two slogans, “Proud to be an American. We stand for the national anthem.”
“To me, if you can’t stand for the national anthem and represent the flag for which your veterans have given you freedom, then you need to buy a one-way ticket to somewhere,” Simmons told WOFL.
Simmons said that after she posted a photo of her sign on Facebook, the county received a complaint and issued her a code violation notice.
“No one complained about it until after I put up… that “we stand for the national anthem”,” she said.
Simmons received a letter from the Lake County government on October 9 informing her that the sign was a violation because it’s been up for almost a year, not because of the messages on it.
The attacks against Simmons’ sign did not end there. She discovered that vandals attacked her sign with the phrase “Grab ’em by the pussy” a few days after the county notified her of the code violation.
“Our code does not permit a temporary sign such as this to be in place for more than 90 days,” a Lake County representative said. “We are aware that this sign has been up since at least November 2016.”
The attacks against Simmons’ sign did not end there. She discovered that vandals attacked her sign with the phrase “Grab ’em by the pussy” a few days after the county notified her of the code violation.
Simmons stated that she removed the graffiti from the sign but said she would take it down to abide by the county’s order, which mandated that she remove the sign within 14 days.
“I’m going to lay low,” she said. “I don’t have the resources to fight this.”
Other Trump supporters ordered by their counties to remove their pro-Trump signs have decided to fight back. In September, a Maine woman claimed she would rather go to jail than remove her Trump sign.
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