Crazy Maine lady: I would lay down my life for Donald Trump! [View all]

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A beleaguered code enforcement officer is trying to get a Trump-loving lady to take down her oversize signs. Now he's getting threatening phone calls. (This is just one town away from me):

“I try to go as straight ahead as possible,” Butler said in an interview, one of many he’s given to the media this week. “I look at what the code says and stick to the code and not try to get off on too many tangents.”

Meaning he has no personal or political beef with Susan Reitman, whose home on dead-end Seavey Lane is adorned with two large signs: “I (red, white and blue heart) Donald Trump” and “He Won … Get Over It!”

Butler wants Reitman to take down the signs – but not because they’re too pro-Trump. They’re too big.

The problem is, Reitman’s not budging. “Look, I’m a 75-year-old widow living on a fixed income,” Reitman said in a telephone interview from her home. “There is no way I could ever pay that $100-a-day or that $1,000-a-day fine. He can put a lien on my house – I have two mortgages. He can take my house. He can put me in jail or whatever. To me it’s the principle of the thing, you know?”‘

http://www.pressherald.com/2017/09/22/bill-nemitz-rockland-dispute-is-a-sign-of-the-times/