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Residents of a house near where Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen are staying for the Christmas holiday hung a "Make America Gay Again" banner. The rainbow banner was hung on a stone pillar at the foot of both of their driveways in Aspen, Colorado, as one of Pitkin County Sheriff Joe DiSalvo's deputies looked on, the Aspen Times reported Friday. DiSalvo said the Secret Service was not bothered by it. The sheriff also said once the man who put the banner up was informed by them that "'We're not here to control your free speech rights,'" the residents of that home fed the Secret Service agents and deputies chili. In a brief email to the Aspen Times, Shannon Slade, one of the residents of the home, said the "banners" were "actually hung by the daughters of the couple … [Read more...] about Mike Pence’s Christmas neighbors in Colorado hang ‘Make America Gay Again’ banner

Vice President Pence arrived in Aspen, Colo., this week for a holiday vacation — but not without encountering a silent protest from his neighbors in the liberal ski resort town. “Make America Gay Again,” reads a rainbow banner posted on the stone pillar at the end of the driveway of the home where Pence and his wife, Karen, are staying. A dispatcher with the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office referred The Washington Post to the White House press office Saturday, but Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Buglione told the Aspen Times that Pence’s next-door neighbors posted the banner shortly after the vice president and his family arrived on Tuesday. In an email to the Aspen Times, Shannon Slade said she is a girlfriend of one of the daughters of the couple living in the house, and that they posted the banner. LGBT advocates have previously showed their opposition to Pence. In December, residents in the affluent Washington neighborhood of Chevy … [Read more...] about Mike Pence’s Colorado neighbors troll him with a ‘Make America Gay Again’ banner

For Vice President Mike Pence, the message was unmistakable and the banner that carried it unmissable. “Make America Gay Again,” the rainbow banner reads. Neighbors of the home near Aspen where Pence and his wife, Karen, are staying posted the message Wednesday or Thursday on a stone pillar that sits at the end of driveways to both homes, Pitkin County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Buglione said Friday. The residents of the home did not answer the door or respond to a note left Friday asking for comment about the banner. The Pence family, who arrived Tuesday, is expected to leave Aspen on Monday and head back to the Eagle County Airport. Pence, a former member of Congress and governor of Indiana, has described himself as a “Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.” Read the full story at AspenTimes.com … [Read more...] about Mike Pence gets message from Aspen neighbors: “Make America Gay Again”

A motorcade ferrying Vice President Mike Pence to a residence near Snowmass Village on Tuesday sparked traffic delays from Eagle to the Roaring Fork Valley because of the high level of security that comes with being second-in-command to Donald Trump. Pence and his wife, Karen Sue, are visiting the area with a scheduled departure on Jan. 1 from either Aspen-Pitkin County Airport or Eagle County Airport near Vail, according to a Dec. 24-dated Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) from the Federal Aviation Administration. The Pence group landed at the Eagle County Airport at roughly noon Monday. With a helicopter well-ahead of the motorcade as it traveled west on Interstate 70, the chopper circled Glenwood Springs twice as the motorcade emerged from the canyon just before 2 p.m. Instead of going over the new Grand Avenue bridge to Highway 82, the vice president’s group went to West Glenwood then up Midland Avenue to the 27th Street bridge south of town, according to observers. Local law … [Read more...] about Vice President Mike Pence arrives in Aspen area for vacation