A resident in Hanson, Massachusetts, has been projecting a Trump 2024 image on the city's water tower, and city officials are not happy about it.
They have taken to shining a spotlight on the image to dull it, and they have threatened the man with a $100-per-day fine if he continues to project the sign.
You gotta love it. Bureaucratic spotlight wars on a water tower because of an election.
'This misleads the public into believing that this activity is sanctioned by or condoned by the Town,' Town Administrator Lisa Green said in a statement.
That's fair.
You don't want people running the elections in your town to show political favoritism.
But it would have been nice to know what law this guy was actually breaking, even if it's understandable why town officials would be annoyed.
The town's efforts to stop the man have now caused the entire world to learn about what used to be a neighborhood squabble.
'The Town of Hanson respects the free speech rights of all residents, and the right of all residents to express their political views, but not on Town property or in a manner that makes it appear that the Town of Hanson is endorsing any political candidate,' Green said.
Green said the town plans to 'issue the maximum fine of $100 per day' to the person projecting the logo, which violates Hanson's sign regulations.
You know what they say: A fine is just the price you have to pay to do something. And Trump supporters on the internet didn't think $100-per-day from now until the election was all that high a price to pay to keep the projection up.
Consider that a billboard could cost a lot more than that.
People have now started a Give Send Go for the guy, which, as of this writing, has raised over $5,000.
If you ask me though, the only thing that will come out of the whole ordeal is a new city regulation about projecting images on buildings and increasing the maximum fine for this sort of thing.
Update: the fundraiser has ended, going well beyond the goal.
Shout out to Not the Bee user @inexorabill for the head's up about this story.
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