The CEO of the World Camping, Marcus Lemonis, breaks down the Northern Carolina trial against his love letter in America on net profit.
The CEO of the World Campsite, Marcus Lemonis, said that he had been forced to close one of his stores in North Carolina in the middle of an animated legal battle on his American flags flying in his stores.
Lemonis told Witn this week that he had closed the smallest of his two motorhome dealers in Greenville on April 18, accusing the members of the Council of actively attempting to denigrate his business for refusing to remove the giant flags.
The leaders of the city of Greenville, in North Carolina, voted to bring legal action against the flags in March because they violated the city orders and Lemonis were affected with $ 15,000 in fines.
The CEO of the World Campsite, Marcus Lemonis, said that he had been forced to close one of his stores in North Carolina in the middle of an animated legal battle on his American flags flying in his stores. (Getty Images / Fox News)
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The flags are almost the size of a basketball court, extending on 3,200 square feet while the post from which it flies is about 130 feet high, almost double the current allowance.
“We believe that the order is wrong,” Lemonis said at local radio station WTIB, according to With. “They (the council) should probably do some research on the statutes of the North Carolina State.”
“I think the members of the council are also bad worked very actively to denigrate my business and on [April 18] I had to consolidate the modification of two dealers in town … our company which was unfortunately affected unique in Greenville in North Carolina. “”
The national dealer of VR has more than 200 locations across the country and is known to have proudly piloted large “Old Glory” flags in its stores. The world of campsite has also been prosecuted by other municipalities across the country on the size of the American flags which it flies in stores. The managers of Sevierville, Tennessee, for example, dispute with the height of the post, and not the size of the flag.
Lemonis for weeks said with challenge that the flags would not descend and maintains that the city’s order violates the law of the state.
In this unclear document photo provided by Camping World, an American flag blows in the wind of Gander RV, in Statesville, NC (Jennifer Munday / Camping World, AP)
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Greenville communications director, Brock Letchworth, said that after the city brought a legal action, the problem was never to suppress an American flag or the type of flag.
“It is a question of putting the flag in accordance with the city code,” said Letchworth in a press release.
“We are impatient to find a resolution that will lead to the continuous display of the flag, but in a way that does not violate local laws.”
The store closes comes only a few weeks after Lemonis said the giant flags with challenge.
Lemonis told Fox & Friends earlier this month that he would not move on the issue, and that the flags are his love letter in the United States, which allowed him to prosper there after having had to leave Beirut, Lebanon.
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The CEO of the World Camping, Marcus Lemonis, joined “ Fox & Friends ” to discuss the legal battle of the company on their American flags. Greenville, in North Carolina, says that the problem is not to remove the flag but to comply with the city code.
“I was not born in this country. I emigrated from Beirut, Lebanon. I came here to Miami, Florida, and I had the opportunity to live the American dream in this country,” he said.
“I put a lot of sweat and tears in the construction of this company for my people, for the country. And it is my love letter to tell everyone how grateful I am grateful this country gave me an opportunity where she did not have to do. To earn money, to be capitalist, to provide jobs in America.”
“From my point of view, the flag is not a problem … It has a clearance of the FAA, and for me, it looks like an opportunity for the city to say that we want to control what is going on there.
An American flag against an idyllic sky. (Istock / Istock)
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Meanwhile, Hinton told Wtib that he had proposed to donate $ 50,000 to Maynard Children’s Hospital in Greenville instead of fines and with the agreement that the Council would modify the order to allow his flags.
Lemonis then said he would give it but did not want it to be a counterpart in exchange for the change of order.
“The merits of the children’s hospital are held alone and each time an organization like this tries to do good things and do good things, they deserve a contribution.
“So I would be happy to make a donation but … I would prefer not to have it … to be a counterpart.”
Madison Colombo of Fox News contributed to this report.
