Pink 'Kamala Harris' yard signs trigger snit in Birmingham, owner orders hundreds more

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(Detroit Free Press) For every action in nature — and some in human affairs — there’s an equal and opposite reaction.

When Birmingham resident Nikki Sapiro Vinckier adorned her front yard with matching campaign signs promoting Kamala Harris for president, an anonymous neighbor said they had to come down. Having a batch of signs violated city ordinances that stipulate just one sign, according to the neighbor, who stuck a list of intimidating rules about signs in Sapiro Vinckier’s mailbox.

The rules looked real. But Birmingham’s mayor and city manager both said, in effect, "Nothing doing — put up all the signs you want until the election," Sapiro Vinckier said. That unleashed her more-than-equal-and-opposite reaction. The happy Harris fan ordered a whole lot more signs and planted them in her front yard. They're printed on one side in a design widely available on Etsy and other Internet sites; and they show on the reverse a Harris quote that Sapiro Vinckier chose, which rings true for her: "We must be a nation that trusts women."

"In total, I have ordered or helped facilitate the ordering with my design of over 7,000 signs," she said. Many came to Michigan, but "hundreds have shipped to other swing states," she said. ..............(more)

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2024/08/28/pink-kamala-harris-yard-signs-get-complaints/74973758007/