Tennessee boutique owner says giant Biden campaign sign above store caused sales to plunge, sparked ‘nasty’ threats t.co/hR9koW4OXQ pic.twitter.com/GYEKNqcASs
— New York Post (@nypost) July 18, 2024
It’s a sign of the times.
A Tennessee boutique owner wants landlords to remove a giant Joe Biden campaign banner from above her shop — saying it caused sales to plunge and forced her to bring a gun to work for protection against folks fired up about politics.
Angie Monahan, who owns Honey Blossom Boutique in Lenior City, was gobsmacked when she arrived at work Saturday and spotted the roughly 20-foot-by-10-foot sign hanging from the upper floor of the building where she rents her shop, she told The Post.
She blames the banner — which proclaims “Biden, Harris: Truth over Lies” — for a nearly 50-percent drop in business in her conservative small town — where former President Donald Trump got nearly 75% of the vote in 2020.
“I have worked seven years to build my business and this could destroy it all in a blink of an eye,” she said.
“We don’t need politics in business. It brings down the whole vibe of downtown,” she said. “I would feel the same way if it was a Trump sign.”
Monahan, who sells everything from handbags to star-spangled pants, said people in the town about 20 miles from Knoxville, are treating her business like the plague.
“I kept wondering why groups of women were intentionally walking beyond the store, and now I know why,” she said.