Posted on 05/23/2024 6:13:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville councilmembers have rejected plans for a glowing sign to be erected at Morgan Wallen’s new bar along the city’s neon-lit strip of honky tonks, citing his use of a racial slur that caused controversy in 2021 and recent criminal charges accusing the country star of throwing a chair off a rooftop near two police officers.
The Nashville Metro Council voted 30-3 Tuesday evening against the proposed sign at Morgan Wallen’s This Bar & Tennessee Kitchen, which is set to open this weekend. The sign would have hung over a public sidewalk, similar to those at many neighboring bars. Such a sign requires local government approval and usually isn’t a controversial process.
During debate, councilmembers called Wallen’s comments hateful and his actions harmful. They also said the performer has received multiple second chances.
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And there are actually 35 of them, two MIA for that vote.
https://www.nashville.gov/departments/council/metro-council-members
Yes, I hope the city loses a 1A lawsuit over it. The money should come out of the council’s pay.
This sounds like punishment without benefit of a trial. While I don’t condone his chair throwing, I don’t condemn it either. Who among us hasn’t felt like throwing a chair off of a roof? I know I have. Later on today if I can find my ladder . .
I haven't said a bad word about Morgan Wallen on this thread.
Hell, I was LMAO watching him rise to the top of the streaming charts after the woke mob demanded he be cancelled!
Not my flavor of country, to be sure, but I can certainly understand his appeal to young whites who would otherwise be polluting their minds listening to degenerate hip-hop.
And the throngs of people I saw coming and going from PetCo stadium in San Diego that weekend were almost universally young white men in cowboy boots and young white women in Daisy Dukes and very short peasant dresses.
And there were no stabbings, shootings, or rioting taking place.
Where is AOC to defend him when she’s needed? She’s not doing her job.
Multiple second chances at free speech…hmm…
Had they confined the reason for his rejection to behavior such as throwing the chair and misdemeanor charges they might have gotten away with denying the approval. But, by citing his opinions, the City is now opened up to a lawsuit on free speech and view point discrimination grounds.
They are going to get away with bringing up his poor language choice because he threw a chair 6 stories off a building and almost hit police officers. They didn’t need to bring up the language but they want to make it messy. He can fight the free speech thing but it won’t get him a big sign.
I think this is about signs in front of the bar. The exterior building has his name in lights.
I’m a HUGE fan of his - his bar will be impossible to get into. Oh, if I were younger.
He will never top David Allan Coe ...
“...He will never top David Allan Coe ...”
But you have to give DAC proper credit for coming up with some truly hilarious songs, such as:
“There’s sailboats,
conch shells
and palm trees, galore,
but Jimmy Buffett doesn’t live
in Key West anymore...”
I got kin living East of Nashville. When I visited last one told me none of them had been to Nashville (just across the bridge) in 20 years.
We visited downtown Nashville back in 1987. Lots of stores open but the area looked like a ghetto street. We walked and stopped at a stop light. I looked down and saw a blood trail. It went on for several blocks. You could see the trail all along the sidewalk, then where he had stopped for the light, then across the street and continued on along the sidewalk. Haven’t been back to downtown Nashville proper since that time.
David Allan Coe is one of my all time favorites.
This is how it works. When a council is sitting to approve an item that meets all other codes pertinent they are acting in a quasi-judicial capacity. Which pretty much means they SHALL approve the item before them because it has already been legislated into law. They can of course disagree with a board’s recommendation/approval when they can show criteria has not been met or feel the standards are ambiguous. For example they need more info on the sign’s anchoring. Unless part of the criteria for signs includes a morals clause they should start deciding how much overtime to pay the city attorney.
The man could have stood on the roof and shouted racial slurs it still would not be grounds for turning down a valid request for approval for a legally allowed item.
Case law is not on the council’s side.
Freedom of speech for me but not for you! USsr coming to full effect!
Nashville’s city council is full of blacks, wiggers and liberals. The Mayor makes sweet deals to his Democrat real estate buddies and the taxes in that city have escalated precipitously. There are parts of Nashville that make the South side of Chicago blush.
Except that David Allan Coe could actually sing
LOL!
An establishment I frequent has a jukebox that frequently plays this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKmg4UbnDLo
Until this thread, I didn't know who he was.
It is kinda pretty, in a way...
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