Posted on 08/07/2013 6:20:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A Belleville, Illinois business owner was fined $31,000 for posting a political sign inside her sandwich shop.
Dianne Rogge, the owner of Pour Haus, is charged $500 every day she leaves the sign up in her shop.
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Sandwich shop owner sues City of Belleville for fines over posted sign
A Metro East storefront is now at the center of a federal lawsuit after city officials told the owner a posted sign was illegal. view full article
KMOV reported:
A Metro East storefront is now at the center of a federal lawsuit after city officials told the owner a posted sign was illegal.
The owner of Pour Haus is suing the City of Belleville after officials told her to take down a sign that sarcastically thanks the city for turning down the her request for tax breaks to start up a sandwich shop.
Youre allowed to put political statements anywhere you want and this is my business. Its inside, it follows the sign ordinance, and therefore Im not breaking any laws. You cannot stomp all over the constitution; Belleville or anybody else, Dianne Rogge, the owner of Pour Haus, said.
Rogge told News 4, the City of Belleville has fined her $500 every day the sign stays up. The sign was placed in the storefront window on June 5; her fine is up to $31,000.
Let me guess, the sign was not pro Obama?
Deprivation of rights under color of law - federal felony.
Shop owner should contact the FBI and US attorney.
Small town brownshirts
Let me guess, you didn’t read the excerpt?
Treble damages too.
Worse...she insulted the City Fathers for not giving her a tax break. Thou shalt not insult your betters.
Little Nazis
Those people who work for Eric Holder? Yeah, that’ll work out great.
Good for her. I will send her 100.00 to help pay for her fine. Anybody else in. Lets pay it forward.
In a sane world. I am never surprised anymore when corruption and evil win. I am very down on our current society, but I do celebrate when the good guys win. I hope she is a able to clean their clocks.
She’s complaining about taxes “No TIFF for us...TKS B’ville”
Seems she is slamming the arrogant ruling class Nazi’s running the local government there.
By the tone of her voice, she aint backing down from the nasty government Nazis...
I am in total agreement with you.
She better get that sign down before the SWAT group comes in with ICE and the ATF alongside some drone. She DARED to defy the rules. There is no freedom of speech. WHERE does one get this idea...not in THIS America.
She was turned down for ‘tax increment financing’?
Why should everyone else subsidize her business?
They aren’t *all* crooked. Are they?
Sounds like New York State (maybe other places), it is against the law to post how much of the cost of a gallon of gasoline is taxes.
She wanted to pay less taxes?
BTW, isn’t the issue here the city Nazi’s telling her she is not allowed to put up a sign of her choice in her own business?
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