"I'm not a football fan, I'm not a sports fan, but I'm surely a Donald Trump fan," said Joe Hornick
A New Jersey man who's been flying Donald Trump's campaign flag in front of his home since February could face up to a $2,000 fine or jail time when he faces a judge in the case.
Joe Hornick has been flying Trump's "Make America Great Again" flag outside his West Long Branch home on a busy corner near the Monmouth University campus for months.
But he got a ticket recently citing him for illegally posting political signage more than 30 days before an election. The New Jersey presidential primary isn't until June 7.
"I'm not a football fan, I'm not a sports fan, but I'm surely a Donald Trump fan," he told NBC 4 New York.
Hornick actually flies two Trump flags day and night, and lights them up when it gets dark. They've been ripped down five times so far.
"Let them come, let them rip those flags down because I have a warehouse on alert, and I'll put up a flag every time they tear one down," he said.
Hornick is ready to face a judge. If he loses the flag fight in court. Hornick is prepared to serve the sentence.
"I'm not taking the flag down, and if I do 90 days in jail, I'll do 90 days in jail," he said.
Hornick says he once saw Trump at a Trump casino but didn't try to greet him.
"To be honest with you, I didn't get up because I was at the blackjack table and I was actually trying to rob him," he joked.
But that was then, he says, and this is now. And if Trump loses, Hornick says he'll shred his voter registration card and never vote again.
And he'll keep flying that flag.
Poster Comment:
He could help make Jersey great again, by moving to New York.
And if Trump loses, Hornick says he'll shred his voter registration card and never vote again.
Good.
Unfortunately, he's probably lying.
He'll lose this case in court. Unless he can get ACLU or another public-interest legal group to appeal to strike down the law, he won't win on appeal either. Given what NJ is like, I don't see much hope he can prevail on appeal.
But I am 100% in favor of him fighting this to the bitter end.
Probably,but he shouldn't. I know this is a suburb of NYC,but surely they have heard of "Freedom of Speech" up there?
He'd likely have to go federal.
But if he did, he might get a sympathetic hearing from Trump's sister Elizabeth, who still sits on a federal court in NJ. You recall she was the one who slammed the nails into allowing partial-birth abortion and then Trump wrote about it and how much he supported partial-birth abortion, how his sister should be on the Supreme Court 'cause she is the classiest judge evah, etc.?
It's only been about 90 years since the mayor of Camden sent cops out to arrest protesters simply for reading the Bill of Rights, especially the First Amendment on freedom of speech and assembly. It was a landmark civil rights case for the fledgling commies at the ACLU.
I've advocated this for a long time. There's nothing the Supremes can do about a federal judge who keeps sending them such cases over and over, despite their previous rulings. Make them do their own dirty work and get the blood on their own hands. What's the worst they can do, scold such a judge in their opinion? Big deal.
It would piss off the Supremes to no end but at least they wouldn't be able to tell themselves that the entire judiciary was backing their position on abortion and other issues.
