Camping World Flag in Reno, CA.
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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“I don’t see why this would be a nuisance.”
The reason they always have so many campers there is because they won’t stock a $5 water valve, so the campers wait a month for servicing.
But he is a liberal, no?
Very liberal in past......
Do you like getting government permission to use your property.
I’m in an HOA so of course. Can’t paint my home without it going through the HOA board. However, I don’t live next door to a house with a junk yard either.
We love driving past the camping World flag on I985 heading up from Atlanta to Gainesville. Its yuge! 😉
The Wrigley’s plant on I985 has one also.
A truck on top of a flag pole question is long gone. I suspect promotion board questions deal with pronouns, how to treat a trannie in training, why trannies are important to national defense - you know, important things like that.
Then have them take it down at night.
Can’t see my neighbors so I don’t either.
That great!👍
Greenville
Typical cool town in red area
Hence lib
Unless it drags on the ground when there is no wind, kudos.
Was it allowed when the flagpole was originally installed?
I have 2 flags flying at my house 24/7. Sue me, I don’t care.
Looks good right where it is.
“Replace it with a gay pride flag and the liberals would be happy.”
Stop calling it a pride flag. Call it a FAG flag. What have they about which to be proud?
We have one in Reno.
Same sentiment here.
Come and try to take it from us...
...and find out.
Camping World Flag in Reno, CA.
Ack! Reno, NV.
(Not CA.)
(Dad and I fled CA over a decade ago.)
Given the local soil conditions, how deep should the pole extend into the ground, and what sort of bonding technique would be appropriate? What are the wind conditions throughout the year, and what would the wind drag be on a flag that size? Assume the height of the flag above ground governs the torque exerted on the foundation, so be sure to factor that into the work. Tell us how you'd go about finding a solution.
That is a civil engineering problem, and not a simple one.
You won’t hear a complain from me!
I have one flying 24/7. My tenant put it up.
He moved on and I never took it down.
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