Posted on 10/28/2020 4:22:15 AM PDT by billorites
After he spent $2,600 on a billboard that reads “Trump Country,” Dave Streit said Outfront Media prematurely removed the highly visible message in downtown Nashua because of complaints.
“We are political refugees. We watched what liberals did to Connecticut, so we moved here to New Hampshire where you live free or die, and no sooner than we get here we are getting canceled,” Streit said. “It is disgusting.”
Streit hired Outfront Media to help design his large Trump Country sign and paid $2,600 to have it placed on top of 169 Main St. in downtown Nashua from Oct. 6 to Nov. 3.
But the company notified him Monday that the message would be removed in the next couple of business days because of complaints. By Tuesday morning, the sign had been taken down.
“Free speech just got thrown out the window,” said Streit, who is urging the company to reconsider. Trump sign removed
MaryAnne Carpenter, an account executive with Outfront Media, said in an email to Streit: “Unfortunately, we had complaints from our property owners regarding political ads. This is both Republican and Democrat. We’ve been asked to remove certain copy on certain boards throughout the state — one of which is your location on Main Street in Nashua.”
The email, which Streit received Monday, said he would be reimbursed for the amount of time left on the contract. Carpenter apologized for the situation.
“They will not leave that sign up,” Streit said on Tuesday, an hour before learning it had already been removed. “I don’t hold it against any of them, but what perturbs me is that one or two complaints can make it come down — from just the mere mention of the president.”
He said the most important time for political advertising is the five days before the Nov. 3 election.
“Even if someone on the left wanted to put a sign up, I would defend their right to have the sign up — that is freedom of expression. Hang together or hang alone,” Streit said.
Streit believes that if his large billboard had supported former Vice President Joe Biden, it would not have been a problem.
According to Streit, Outfront Media helped design the billboard sign and approved it, and the contract contained no clause that political ads were not permitted.
He acknowledged that the contract gives the company the right to take down any advertisements that generate complaints.
Streit said he was not told how many complaints the company received about the Trump Country sign or when they were made.
“I think that Trump was the most unlikely conservative imaginable, and he has delivered on every single promise, and we will never have a president like him again,” Streit said.
Gerry Allen, general manager at Outfront Media, did not return a phone call and email seeking comment. Additional inquiries to the company received no response.
The prominent three-story building on Main Street on which the billboard stands is owned by Joan Scontsas Revocable Trust. Scontsas Fine Jewelry and Home Decor operates inside the first floor of the building.
Philip Scontsas, one of the owners, did not return a phone call on Tuesday.
Rats will try anything. Hope for a landslide!
should move to SD if possible
“Republican and Democrat” my ass
Sue the dogs for breach of contract.
It was in Nashua that some guy tried to turn off Ronald Reagan's microphone, prompting Reagan's famous outburst: “I am paying for this microphone, Mr. Green!”
One of the Trump clubs here in Florida has a huge welcome to Trump country sign on interstate 95 with a huge pic of a smiling POTUS and Melania. Love it. Ha ha.
When this is over, I want Trump to become the dictator they accuse him of.
I want stacks of rotting liberal corpses.
How do they know the political affiliation of the complainers?
are you kidding?
Here in Tampa, FL there’s a large Section 8 apartment complex with a Biden/Harris 2020 sign planted right in the middle of the street entrance. I haven’t noticed management or any of the apartment renters getting upset about the sign or trying to take it down.
When I run errands in my neighborhood I drive by a huge (of course) mural of Stacey Abrams. It’s been on the side of a building for two years, will probably be there forever.
Move it to a prominent private property location.
As if they would even ask about Party affiliation of the whining complainers! What a load of pure bullsh*t!
I'm not a lawyer but I wonder if that close giving the company the right to remove any signage which generates complains is even legal.
Sounds like a law suit - bigley.
Here’s the mural of Stacey Abrams I have to constantly drive by.
The New Hampshire has rapidly changed. Live Free or Die??? The Socialist left would rather die, than not to be led around by an all over reaching government. Sad.
Move it to a prominent private property location.
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The billboard is private property.
Below the mural of Stacey Abrams is a bar called Church with a picture of Our Lady to Guadalupe in the window. That’s a sacred image and should not be mocked.
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