Posted on 08/07/2014 7:12:30 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
A Coral Gables billionaire wants to hoist a 500-pound American flag atop a massive, 40-story flagpole over downtown Miami....
Fernandez, a major donor to Republican candidates and the former chief fundraiser for Gov. Rick Scott, has been mulling a way to pay homage to the United States for years. He came to the U.S. from Cuba in 1964 as a penniless child and made his fortune in healthcare. He says the idea is “very preliminary,” but he began to consider flying a massive flag over downtown after watching a video of the Wisconsin-based insurer Acuity building a 400-foot tall flagpole on its Sheboygan campus.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Cool idea, but who bears the cost of replacing the flag when it gets old? And who pays for the cost of taking it down for the hurricane?
One of our local car dealers has a MASSIVE American Flag that flies over his place. I LOVE seeing it when I drive by - and THIS is in ‘The People’s Republik of Madistan’ of all places!
Nary a complaint, which is, in itself, a miracle!
Someone will complain - some Democrat anti-American whiner - in three... two... one...
Are there any Americans left in Miami.
Heck when I still left there there was a bumper sticker that said, “Will the Last American Leaving Miami Please Turn the Light Off.”
Hispanics place a lot of importance on flags for whatever reason. Even though a Hispanic is doing this, they'll try to oppose this as a hate crime.
I think the guy says he was inspired when he saw that flag.
He came to the U.S. from Cuba in 1964 ...
A lot Cubans who came over early like to portray themselves as having a Spanish background, not Cuban. They don’t like to be associated with the trash that came over later.
I LOVE that flag!
Here’s another vid of it’s inception and construction progression...
http://mortenson.wistia.com/medias/tejnwpitig
Giant Acuity flag (WI) to be copied in Florida
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In Miami, money talks louder than anything. And last time I heard, the Cubans were pretty much Republicans.
It’s Florida...just watch..the guy’s HOA will send him a desist letter..
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