The pro-Trump owner of a beachside property on Florida’s Emerald Coast could be slapped with a fine of $50 a day for the massive “Trump Won” banner he has draped across his three-tiered balcony.
A resident of Walton County's beachside Road 30A corridor says he's not going to take a large 'Trump Won' banner off of his Seagrove Beach house. https://t.co/mUVfXbpdBL
— PNJ (@pnj) October 22, 2021
Martin Peavy is a Georgia-based real estate agent who lives four days a week in Seagrove, Florida, one of the several quaint and idyllic Gulf Coast towns along County Road 30A that many Southerners cherish as the ultimate destination for quiet, old-time beach getaways and luxury homes.
However, the picturesque scenes that 30A has to offer are subject to Walton County regulations, which Peavy was found to have violated with his three-story political statement.
The Pensacola News Journal reported that unless Peavy takes down the sign, he’s facing steep fines of $50 daily.
That is, fines that would be steep to the sort of people who could never dream of owning property along 30A.
To Peavy, on the other hand, $50 a day is chump change. Elections records show he donated over $9,000 to pro-Trump and Republican organizations in the 2020 election season, and he told the News Journal that he’s helping conservative former football star Herschel Walker’s GOP campaign for U.S. Senate.
“Fifty dollars a day ain’t a d*** thing to me,” he told the newspaper. “I’m not going to take it down.”
Even if Peavy, who says he hung the banner to trigger the local liberals and “1% leftists” in the luxury community, couldn’t afford to pay the fine, he has plenty of support.
“I’ve already had people call me and tell me they’d pay the $50 fines,” he said.
Rock On Martin Peavy. I’m confident this publicity will help your real estate work.
And thank you for the uplifting message.
