Posted on 03/31/2025 11:26:19 PM PDT by Libloather
The CEO of Camping World, a national RV dealer with stores in 200-plus locations, is facing a lawsuit by another city over its massive American flag that waves outside a dealership.
City leaders in Greenville, N.C., voted 4-2 last week to initiate legal action to take down the American flag at a Camping World dealership. The vote came amid another lawsuit filed by the city of Sevierville, Tennessee.
"Not when they sue, not when I lose, not if they take me to jail, the flag is not coming down," Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis said last week after the city council in Greenville, North Carolina, voted to authorize the filing of civil action against the company, WITN reported. "While I respect the city council’s position and while I understand they have the right to sue me, and they’re going to and I understand I have the right to defend myself, the flag is never coming down."
"They need to sue me, not the business, because I put the flags up everywhere," he added.
The Greenville City Council said the flag is nearly the size of a basketball court at 3,200 square feet. It flies on a pole that stands 130 feet tall, almost double the size of what is currently allowed.
On Monday, Marcus Lemonis posted an image of a complaint filed in March by the city of Sevierville, which had requested the removal of a 100-foot flagpole on its property, which flies a 40-feet by 80-foot American flag.
"The Flag will not come down," Lemonis wrote on X.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Lemonis and the city for comment.
It is not the first time the RV giant has defied orders to remove the huge Camping World flags; he has had similar experiences across the country and...
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Because it's not a 500' windmill or 300 acre solar farm. Those things are beautiful...
I think like burning the American flag this is free speech.
I’ll remember that the next time you complain about a bunch of your Mexican neighbors setting off fireworks and hosting a mariachi band for a block party at 2AM on Cinco de Mayo.
What about emergencies.
I have flown out of PGV, that small airport and emergencies happen more often tha you think.
A Miami-Dade County new car dealership had the same problem. Winds would cause their huge US flag to snap and pop loudly near Perrine.
Households near that already-noisy US-1 location sued against the introduced noise pollution—and that was 35 years ago!
I’d rather be left alone. There’s no “freedom” if you have the right to be an insufferable nuisance to your neighbor.
Replace it with a gay pride flag and the liberals would be happy.
Remember what you want turd ball. You want the flag. Come and get it.
Windmills and so-called “solar farm” developers give kickbacks. So that’s ok, if democrats are on the receiving end. I hate the term “solar farm”. they are not farms they do not grow or raise anything. So called “harvesting the suns rays” is bs. When you harvest something, it generally dies and you either end up eating it or wearing it. Perfectly good farmland for very expensive electricity and only when the sun shines. What a crock, and windmills kill birds, and use around 800 gallons of oil that needs the be changed. No spills? Sure.
Yes, Camping World CEO is a leftist slime.
Thinking back to my Army days when we had to learn flag sizes, my guess is that’s a garrison sized flag, which is the largest. They were questions in the oral exam for promotion.
Another question was what are the two types of trucks on post? Answer? Wheeled trucks and the ball on top of a flag pole.
I can assure you that this CEO will never stand up to defend his property if someone wanted to come by and burn his flagpole down. LOL.
Replace it with a rainbow flag, and every Freeper on this thread who thinks “freedom” means the CW guy can fly his flag will suddenly become totalitarian @ssholes and use whatever power of government is necessary to take the flag down.
Could be in the site line of a mosque?
I don’t know anyone around here that would complain about that flag.
“special crew from Texas to do the ground excavation”
How can that be? You mean no one knew how to dig a hole, and pour a footing, in your state?
Mostly yes. But would you want a gas station next door to you? Or an Amazon warehouse?
Try sleeping near one of those things with the windows open on a windy night.
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i have one not more than 200 yards away from me, and i sleep just fine.
Ergo....Camping is racist.
Wonder how many know about the truck on the flagpole? It was on the promotional board back in my Army days. Wonder if it still is?
Mark
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