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TexasTowelie

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Fri Oct 19, 2018, 10:50 AM Oct 2018

Katy resident plans to fight HOA to keep huge Beto sign in front yard

One Katy homeowner is fighting back against her property association after it sent her a violation notice regarding a large painted black-and-white "Beto" sign on her front yard.

Shannon Bennett, 48, lives in the Estates of Chesterfield with her husband, a retired marine, and their four children.

Bennett said she believes that part of the reason she's being asked to remove her sign supporting U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke in his race against incumbent U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) boils down to differing, contentious political views and a neighborhood that is hostile toward Democrats.

"Our (sign) is the one of only two in the neighborhood that doesn't say Ted Cruz on it," she said.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/katy/article/Katy-resident-beto-sign-HOA-fight-13315390.php


Photo: Craig Moseley/Staff Photographer

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Katy resident plans to fight HOA to keep huge Beto sign in front yard (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2018 OP
I think its a damn nice sign! I vote, Leave it alone. Bfd Oct 2018 #1
Best sign from either candidate. Go Beto!! marble falls Oct 2018 #2
 

Bfd

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1. I think its a damn nice sign! I vote, Leave it alone.
Fri Oct 19, 2018, 11:17 AM
Oct 2018

If the situation were reversed, the sign said CRUZ, in a Dem neighborhood, all the neighbors would be lining the property with BETO signs.

Like this genius video:
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-worth/article219482535.html

This man put a Ted Cruz sign near the home of a Beto supporter. Here’s what happened

Steve Mitchell decided to have a little fun with politics recently.

The Fort Worth man decided to put out a yard sign supporting his choice for the U.S. Senate seat, Republican Ted Cruz.

But instead of putting it directly in front of his house, he decided to put it along the property line of his home, closer to his neighbor, Michel Bond, who supports Democrat Beto O’Rourke in that race.

Instead of getting mad, as so many would these days, Bond chose to have a little fun himself.

He made his own sign, to put on his side of the property line, that said “I hate.”

Now, anyone who drives by sees the side-by-side signs delivering the message: “I hate” “Ted Cruz.”


“When I saw his sign, I was dying laughing,” Mitchell said.

Love it.

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