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.
“You’re allowed to put political statements anywhere you want and this is my business. It’s inside, it follows the sign ordinance, and therefore I’m 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.
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TIF’s are horribly abused in Texas, so I am very biased
If she does, she'll be sorry.
She'll never get into the corners.
(Emo Philips)
just because we may not be on her side regarding the tif issue, that doesn’t mean we must support government trampling over her right to voice her displeasure with local government in her own shop.
while i may not be for a tif break for another sandwich shop, i am on her side as far as her fighting against government trying to silence a person’s free speech rights against the government. i hope they sue and win their case so it sets up case law precedents aganst this crap.
:^)
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