Posted on 12/16/2016 1:42:12 PM PST by RC one
With temperatures hovering around zero across Maine on Friday, people in Somerset County checking on propane prices may have been greeted with a political message from one dealer.
If you voted for Donald Trump for president, I will no longer be delivering your gas,” says a voicemail message at Turner LP Gas in Skowhegan. “Please find someone else.”
The company is owned by Michael Turner, who didn’t immediately respond to a message on Friday. But he could be turning away a lot of business, given that the Republican president-elect won Somerset County with 58 percent of votes.
Some cases like this have already garnered national attention after Trump’s win over Democrat Hillary Clinton, including a New Mexico marketing firm that refused to do business with Trump supporters.
We don’t know Turner, so we can’t say whether this is a joke.
The Maine Human Rights Act only bans discrimination in public accommodations on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin. Some places have added political beliefs to these kinds of protections, with Washington, D.C., shielding “political affiliation” and Seattle adding “political ideology.”
So it may not be good public relations, but Turner’s move is legal.
No one said leftists are smart - particularly the low-level drones.
Propane is generally in rural areas, rural areas are generally Trump supporters
This guy did not think through his business idea well enough
Enjoy your business liquidation sale
Incredibly stupid businessman.
Trump supporters pay their bills.
So if somebody has a contract with that guy they should sue the shite out of him.
No worries. The new owner will not discriminate.
It’d be too bad if his pipeline got shutoff for some reason, like low volume.
Exactly. The door should swing both ways. Personally, I think people should be able to choose who they do business with.
That said, the playing field should be level. If propane dealers don’t want to do business with Trump voters, bakeries shouldn’t have to produce cakes for homosexual weddings.
If a baker is prosecuted for refusing to bake a cake for homosexual weddings, then propane dealers should be prosecuted for refusing to service Trump voters.
Hank Hill needs to straighten this fella out.
Meanwhile, his competitors thank him for the business
I hope this prick and his whole Commie family starve and freeze to death this winter. FU Trump Haters!
I wonder if there is an alternate company available to pick up his business? If not, this is a big deal.
Problem solved.
Someone should beat the s**t out of him until he begs to serve everyone.
Cletus would respond:
I’ll be over-indulging on navy beans and and cabbage.
Then, I’ll be delivering YOU my gas in your store front.
Have a nice day.
That boy aint right.
Then file a class action discrimination (Freedom of association, infringement of free speech) law suit and sue this Neanderthal back to the stone age!
Apparently it is OK to sue people who refuse to service you for your beliefs
So... go get them!
Broke and bitter is no way to go through winter in Maine. Someone should take all sharp objects away from this guy.
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