Followup: outrage has results. The sheepish withdrawal by the property manager has "don't fire me!!11!!" all over it. Fire herFlags are OK again at an Albany apartment complex after the property manager reviewed the policy and decided she didn't have the legal standing to ban flags from the exteriors of apartments and vehicles parked at the complex.
Oh shit. Management is abandoning me like a leper ship
"If people want to fly any flag of any nationality, it's their right," said Barb Holcomb with Oaks Apartments
"Now. We'd prefer it was a Hezbollah flag or PLO or something we could be proud of"
KVAL News asked whether she had talked to the resident who originally went to the media with the story. Holcomb said no, although she said she would talk to him -- and would have talked to him before he went to the media. Holcomb said he did not approach her before talking to KVAL News partner KATU.
"if he'd mentioned going to the media, I coulda evicted him first, dammit"
"He's just a romping, stomping patriot," Holcomb said.
I bet that hurt