We'll never know how the lease is written, but I've never in my long life seen a store lease where the renter can willy-nilly and at his own whim alter the appearance of the store front with cosmetic changes such as re-painting a facade without the permission of the owner....never. Makes no difference if he painted a political slogan or the Mona Lisa, he apparently did this alteration on his own and the owner swiftly put the kabosh on his artwork.
Would you like it if you owned a store on Main Street and your tenant painted a political mural or message right on the front without your permission....and all of a sudden rocks and tires are breaking your store windows and the life and the safety of the folks inside is being threatened by the minute...and you're getting the threatening phone calls by the scores from the Obama cultist crazies?
Never mind your sermons, just answer that one question. I live in Realville along with Rush. From the safety of your easy chair it's easy to run someone else's rental propery which was put in frightening peril by an eager-beaver, dumbo tenant....no matter how much you appreciate his graffitti as do I.
Leni
“We’ll never know how the lease is written, but I’ve never in my long life seen a store lease where the renter can willy-nilly and at his own whim alter the appearance of the store front with cosmetic changes such as re-painting a facade without the permission of the owner....never. Makes no difference if he painted a political slogan or the Mona Lisa, he apparently did this alteration on his own and the owner swiftly put the kabosh on his artwork.”
You made an excellent point and you can bet money that if this were reversed and it was a democrat office many here would be cheering and talking about the the rights of landlords.
Same if it were any business that was seen to be a danger or nuisance to the landlord or the other tenants, or the property, say a custom lowrider shop with possible gang activity.
I think our own hypocrisy is one of the things that really damage the conservative image. JMHO of course.
They would be throwing rocks whether the message was painted without permission or if the renter had put up a nylon banner to express his ideas, so your question is meaningless.