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No more business for "Nobama" salesman
Johnson City (TN) Press ^ | September 26, 2009 | Brad Hicks

Posted on 09/26/2009 4:11:25 AM PDT by don-o

Dan Fuchs said business was just starting to pick up at his kiosk in the Mall at Johnson City.

Fuchs’ business, the Graphic Edge, printed slogans and pictures on items such as coffee cups, bumper stickers and T-shirts. He said more than half of his business came from the sale of anti-Obama merchandise. Bumper stickers with slogans such as “SOS: Stop Obama’s Socialism,” “Nobama,” and “Chicago got the party, but the country got the hangover” were displayed around the small stand.

Now it appears Fuchs is out of business at the mall, but mall officials say this decision was not based upon political views.

Friday afternoon, Fuchs was handed a lease termination notice by mall officials and signed by Mall General Manager Tembra Aldridge. The letter states that the option to terminate the lease agreement is effective 11:59 p.m. today and that he must vacate the mall premises and remove his property before then.

(Excerpt) Read more at johnsoncitypress.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bumperstickers; danfuchs; fascism; fuchs; graphicedge; nobama; obama; retail; weareallfascistsnow
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To: don-o

Can someone post the Mall management phone numbers, email and address?

Let’s make this an interesting decision for them. We stay above board, but present our views coherently. Also bring up the offensive items, like the Tricky Dick and other offensive items and ask what they are going to do about it.


61 posted on 09/26/2009 10:14:52 AM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: animal172

Party like its 1773? Were you at my first birthday party?
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You were born in Boston? Well, I’ll be!


62 posted on 09/26/2009 10:15:56 AM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: animal172

I did look for some pro Obama or anti Bush stuff though. I would have been on the horn to WJHL so fast your head would have spun in circles.
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Yeah, that was my thought. Thanks for doing recon today!


63 posted on 09/26/2009 10:17:19 AM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: don-o

They always need another cell phone accessory, or wristwatch store.


64 posted on 09/26/2009 10:18:49 AM PDT by RangerM (Half of America works for a living, so the other half can vote for a living.)
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To: SeattleBruce

The Mall @ Johnson City
2011 N. Roan St.
Johnson City, TN. 37601
423-610-0831
General Manager: Tembra Hammond
mhammond@glimcher.com


65 posted on 09/26/2009 10:19:34 AM PDT by animal172 (A Tennessee guy....I must be a racist.)
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To: SeattleBruce

Hard to believe huh?


66 posted on 09/26/2009 10:20:15 AM PDT by animal172 (A Tennessee guy....I must be a racist.)
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To: SeattleBruce

Thought about wearing my brand new T-shirt and spending Sunday walking around the Mall.


67 posted on 09/26/2009 10:21:31 AM PDT by animal172 (A Tennessee guy....I must be a racist.)
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To: animal172

New tag....


68 posted on 09/26/2009 10:23:07 AM PDT by animal172 (Fire the Johnson City Mall management)
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To: don-o

Here’s a video.

I wonder how this woman would have reacted if there had been anti-Bush materials on display.

http://www2.tricities.com/tri/news/local/article/graphic_edge_terminated_owner_says_decision_was_political/33060/


69 posted on 09/26/2009 10:24:27 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Ded Kennedy, Stealing from the middle class for nearly 40 years to end poverty.)
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To: don-o

Checked the website.

http://www.graphicedgeonline.com/

Only 1 image up so far, but they say they hope to be finished building the site by the end of the day.


70 posted on 09/26/2009 10:25:11 AM PDT by airborne (Don't let history record that, when faced with evil, you did nothing!)
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To: animal172

Shucks, I wish I could join ya, but it’s a bit of a drive...and an even longer ride on horseback (keeping with our 1773 theme..)


71 posted on 09/26/2009 10:25:20 AM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773!)
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To: animal172

taldridg@glimcher.com

my e-mail to mall manager

I am dismayed to learn that you have terminated the lease agreement with Dan Fuchs, owner of Graphics Edge due to customer complaints about the merchandise he was providing. I understand that he made his products at the request of his customers. I do not understand why three complaints (per your statement on WJHL) can possibly inform a business decision to evict a going and growing enterprise in your facility.

You actually confirmed your true reason when you said that he needed to have pro-Obama merchandise. Which other of the businesses in you Mall receives similar oversight? I have my own list of products that I want removed as well.

See attached photo for starters.


72 posted on 09/26/2009 10:26:55 AM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine PFC- 1/16/09 - Parris Island - LC -6/4/09 - 29 Palms - Camp Pendleton 6/18)
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To: animal172

She must have changed her name recently. I found Tembra Aldridge and posted her e-mail in 72. Both will probably work.


73 posted on 09/26/2009 10:29:41 AM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine PFC- 1/16/09 - Parris Island - LC -6/4/09 - 29 Palms - Camp Pendleton 6/18)
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To: don-o

Nice “I disagree with your action” letter!


74 posted on 09/26/2009 10:33:42 AM PDT by VOA
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To: SeattleBruce

You’d better get started it cause it’s gonna take you a while to get here. :)


75 posted on 09/26/2009 10:35:42 AM PDT by animal172 (Fire the Johnson City Mall management)
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To: don-o

There needs to be a very loud Tea Party march through the Mall in support of Fuchs.


76 posted on 09/26/2009 10:38:09 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: VOA

Thanks. I attached the penis costume pic that I posted upthread.


77 posted on 09/26/2009 10:40:03 AM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine PFC- 1/16/09 - Parris Island - LC -6/4/09 - 29 Palms - Camp Pendleton 6/18)
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To: don-o
but mall officials say this decision was not based upon political views.

Of course not. It never is when you're dealing with libs.
78 posted on 09/26/2009 10:40:50 AM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: don-o

Did you happen to catch some of the other stuff in that store that is even worse than your posted picture?


79 posted on 09/26/2009 10:43:45 AM PDT by animal172 (Fire the Johnson City Mall management)
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To: animal172

Nope. I had just come from my AA meeting and was feeling pretty calm and collected. I did not see any need to expose myself to any more of their trash.


80 posted on 09/26/2009 10:54:16 AM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben - Marine PFC- 1/16/09 - Parris Island - LC -6/4/09 - 29 Palms - Camp Pendleton 6/18)
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