Protest signs shaming Bill Haslam torn down in Cleveland TN
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Channel: chattanooga times free press · 2013 · News & Politics
A businessman in Cleveland says city officials crossed a line when they tore down protest signs he put up outside his business when Governor Haslam visited on Thursday. Dan Rawls, owner of Cleveland Performance Center, says the city needs to publicly apologize for trespassing on his property and trampling on free speech. But City Councilman George Poe says Rawls is the one who crossed the line by putting the signs on city right of way. Rawls planted the signs to protest Haslam's support for the Common Core education standards. Poe called it a big embarrassment, considering the governor was in town to give a half-million dollars in grant funding to the city.
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