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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It is, if you want to make it difficult, you certainly could.
It could also be a simple 2’x2’ a the top, 3x3 at the bottom, as deep as needed for the soil type. Not difficult at all.
The flagpole will fold, before the footing will give.
You have no idea...
I used the US Navy flag drag formula.
Bold statement for someone who knows nothing about me.
Enjoy your project.
I can only take your 2X2 and 3X3 estimates, and compare them to the realities surrounding a flag that large.
Missed the part that said “it could be”?
It was just an example, not a specific proposal.
All I meant was, I don’t think they needed to import some magic engineer from Texas, as the article described.
I’m pretty sure there was someone local, who could handle the flag pole footing.
Now I understand your point. Sometimes it is a matter of availability or even advertising. There is also that weird age-old notion that all experts are from out of town. ;-D
Same here. My dream at one time, now abandoned, was to own a quarter section (160 acres) somewhere out here in the west. With my setup not visible from off-site. A wife, six kids, three dogs, some chickens, a garden, and a well-equipped barn. Throw in a library, some firearms, and a huge stone fireplace. And some room for a few cars/trucks, some of which might not run. That didn’t happen, so suburbia it is. I don’t like surrendering even a hint of what’s left of my freedom any more than the next guy, but I also don’t want some yayhoo neighbor inflicting himself on me. I’ve run afoul of the HOA a few times, not getting ‘approvals’, but never a problem as the changes were well designed and constructed, and the place is kept up nicely. FWIW, I don’t like my nation’s flag being used for advertising. It’s disrespectful.
So true.....
wouldnt it be the cat’s rear if the judge turned around and ordered the plaintiffs on the suit to leave the country!!??? naturally it would be struck down in appeals, but would it still be awesome...
...one can still dream...
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