{"id":306,"date":"2020-08-03T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodguyssigns.com\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2021-06-03T15:05:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T15:05:51","slug":"the-strange-tale-of-a-donald-trump-yard-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodguyssigns.com\/blog\/the-strange-tale-of-a-donald-trump-yard-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Democrat Did With a Donald Trump Yard Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kevin Chambers lives in the city of Bremerton, Washington. To get there from Seattle, the quickest way is by the ferry that goes across Puget Sound. The trip takes about 50 minutes. That may not interest you. The fact that Chambers is a Democrat, and fought the city to keep a Donald Trump yard sign up just might.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last November, Chambers had a friend who played a prank on him by placing a political yard sign <\/a>of Trump on his property. He was going to take it down, but then received threats on social media. People were letting him know they were going to graffiti the sign and egg his house. So\u2026Chambers decided to keep the corrugated plastic yard sign<\/a> up as a matter of principle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Happened Next<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, the political lawn sign was vandalized after all. Chambers called the friend who had played the initial joke on him. That friend brought over another Trump sign. Chambers, a left-leaning co-host of a local political talk radio show, raised the sign up on stilts 15 feet high to avoid any more damage from the vandals. He was sending a message. Even though he didn\u2019t find the 45th president particularly palatable, he was going to hold his ground and fight for his 1st<\/sup> Amendment rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More Trouble with the Political Yard Sign<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chambers didn\u2019t see that trouble was about to come from a different source. The plastic Donald Trump sign wasn\u2019t getting vandalized anymore, but now it was being ordered to come down. In January, officials made it clear he was breaking a city ordinance by having his sign up at that height. \u201cI have a really hard time understanding how the city would have any jurisdiction telling me what to do with a sign in my yard,\u201d said Chambers. \u201cI could paint my house with Donald Trump colors and the city wouldn\u2019t have an ordinance for that. I believe I could put up a sign even bigger on my roof and the city couldn\u2019t say anything about it.\u201d City Planner Justin Rowland responded, \u201cWe\u2019re not saying that based on the content of his sign that he has to take it down, it\u2019s purely that \u2018Hey your sign is too high, just bring it down a bit, that way we\u2019re in compliance.\u201d Chambers was not pleased. In his mind, this was his political yard sign, and it was on his property. \u201cKeep in mind, I\u2019m not a Trump supporter,\u201d Chambers said. \u201cI don\u2019t like Trump, but I feel like I\u2019m forced to defend the sign to defend the larger issue.\u201d The only reason the city ordered the signage to be removed was that some neighbor had complained to officials about the sign. Chambers believed there would have been no problem if it had been a Joe Biden or Elizabeth Warren political sign. \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t have had to raise the sign if the city of Bremerton were enforcing its graffiti ordinances. If you drive around west Bremerton, graffiti is rampant,\u201d Chambers said. \u201cWhen we got tagged, the only reason we drove it up was because we were trying to protect it from damage \u2014 especially after the threats on Facebook.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kelli Lambert, Bremerton’s senior city planner, told Good Guys Signs<\/a> that the planning commission doesn\u2019t drive around looking for things like this. Their responses are complaint-based.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Outcome of This Infamous Political Yard Sign<\/em><\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, whad\u2019ya know\u2026the Planning Commission sent Kevin Chambers a notice to the property owner in late December. He acquiesced and took the sign down on January 22nd because of the complaint and the ordinance Bremerton has.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Politics can get nasty. But what happens when someone who is registered for a particular party somewhat sides with a politician despite not liking him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[69,44,45,46,31],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodguyssigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodguyssigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodguyssigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodguyssigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodguyssigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodguyssigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6457,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodguyssigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/6457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodguyssigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodguyssigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodguyssigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodguyssigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}