Camping World Director General Marcus Lemonis breaks down the northern carolin lawsuits against his love letter to America after all.
Camping World Director General Marcus Lemonis has said he was forced to close one of his stores in North Carolina in the middle of a hot legal battle for his massive American flags flying in his stores.
Lemonis told Witn this week that he closed the smallest of his two sales on RV on Greenville on April 18, accusing council members actively trying to depreciate his business for refusing to remove giant flags.
Greenville city leaders, North Carolina, voted to take legal action against flags in Mars since violating the city’s ordinances and Lemonis has been hit with a fine of $ 15,000.
Camping World Director General Marcus Lemonis has said he was forced to close one of his stores in North Carolina in the middle of a hot legal battle for his massive American flags flying in his stores. (Getty Images / Fox News)
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Flags are almost the size of a basketball court, which includes 3200 square meters while the pole from it flies is about 130 meters long, almost double the current allowance.
“We think the ordinance is wrong,” Lemonis told the local Radio Station, according to Witn. “They (the Council) probably have to do little research on statutes in the state of North Carolina.”
“I think it is also that the wrong council members have actively worked to despise my business and on April 18th) I had to consolidate the modification of two traders in the city … Our business which unfortunately has uniquely affected Greenville, North Carolina.”
The National RV trader has more than 200 places across the country and is known for the proud flight of the big “old” flags in its stores. Camping World has also been indicted by other municipalities across the country over the size of American flags flying in stores. Officials from Seviville, Tennesses, for example, deal with the height of the pole, not the size of the flag.
Lemonis has been saying strangely for weeks that flags will not go down and argues that the city’s ordinance violates state law.
In this hand -dated photo provided by Camping World, an American flag blows in the wind on Gander RV, in Stateville, NC (Jennifer Munday/World Camping, AP)
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Greenville Communications manager Brock Letchworth said after the city took legal action that the issue was never about removing an American flag or type of flag.
“It is about bringing the flag in accordance with the city code,” Letchworth said in a statement.
“We look forward to finding a resolution that will result in the constant appearance of the flag, but in a way that does not violate local laws.”
The closure of the store comes just weeks after Lemonis vaguely declared giant flags.
Lemonis told Fox & Friends earlier this month that he would not take over the matter, and that flags are his love letter to the United States, which allowed him to flourish there after he had to leave Beiruti, Lebanon.
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“I was not born in this country. I emigrated from Beiruti, Lebanon. He came here to Miami, Florida and had an opportunity to live the American dream in this country,” he said.
“I’ve put a lot of sweat and tears in building this business for my people, for the place. And it’s my love letter to tell everyone how grateful I am this place gave me an opportunity.
“From my point of view, the flag is not a problem … there is cleaning faa, and for me, this feels like an opportunity for the city to say that we want to control what is happening there.
An American flag against an idinry sky. (Istock / Istock)
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Meanwhile, Lemonis told Wtib he proposed to donate $ 50,000 at the Maynard Children’s Hospital in Greenville instead of fines and with the agreement for the Council to change the ordinance to allow his flags.
Lemonis then said he would make the donation, but did not want it to be a Quid Pro Quo in exchange for the change in ordinance.
“The merits of the children’s hospital stay on their own and at all times an organization like it is trying to do good things and in fact doing good things, they deserve a contribution.
“So I would be happy to make a donation, but … I would prefer not to have it …… to become a quid pro quo.”
Fox News’ Madison Colombo contributed to this report.
