Sign at homeless camp: 'Welcome to Obamaville'
PHOTONETDAILY
Posted: December 12, 2009
5:00 pm Eastern
By Drew Zahn
© 2011 WorldNetDaily
Sign constructed in Colorado Springs homeless camp |
Residents of Colorado Springs, Colo., have a mystery on their hands: who came up with the idea to erect a sign reading "Welcome to Obamaville" on the site of a homeless tent camp in the city?
The sign, which was visible from the Cimarron Street ramp to Interstate 25, clearly conveyed a political jab at rising unemployment under President Barack Obama, for it read in full, "Welcome to Obamaville – Colorado's fastest growing community."
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Colorado television station KRDO first reported on the sign earlier this week, but without any identifying logos or clues to the sign's origin, the station launched a public appeal for information on the sign's author.
KRDO got its first clue when Spencer Swann of Colorado Canyon Signs confessed to constructing the sign, though he denied it was his idea and still refuses to divulge for whom he built it. He did, however, explain that there was more to the sign's intent than criticizing the sitting president:
"You mention his name, you get some attention – I think that was the whole idea behind it," Swann told KRDO. "I didn't dream it up, but I thought it was a good idea. I thought that it would help some of these guys down here."
Nonetheless, Swann has since replaced the "Obamaville" sign with another, which reads, "Please help. We need firewood, propane and canned food."
In response to some criticism that the money used to build the signs should have been used to help the homeless instead, Swann told KRDO that though the original "Obamaville" sign cost around $150, he didn't charge the unknown creator for either sign. Furthermore, he said, the instigator of the "Obamaville" sign is already involved with helping the homeless:
"He gives them money, he gives them food, he gives them support," said Swann.
As for his own motivations for building the sign, and doing so without charge, Swann told KRDO, "I thought it was just something to draw attention and help those folks."
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