The Town of Wellesley Insists Dan Chiasson Take Down His 'Impeach Trump' Sign

You may know him as poet and New Yorker critic Dan Chiasson, but the Boston Globe knows him as the "Wellesley resident [who] refuses to take down [an] oversized 'Impeach Trump' sign." "Town officials say the sign is too big and too high up, and if it doesn’t come down, he’ll be fined $300 a day," writes Emily Sweeney for the Globe. More:

Dan Chiasson, 47, said he was surprised when he came home and found a certified letter from the town in his mail, ordering him to take the sign down.

“Recently this department received a complaint about a sign that has been installed on your home,” Michael Grant, the town’s building inspector and zone enforcement officer, wrote in the Jan. 28 letter. Grant said the sign was in violation of the town’s bylaws because it was too big and placed too high above the ground.

Therefore, you have 7 days to remove the sign upon receipt of this letter,” Grant wrote.

 

If he failed to comply, he’d be fined $300 a day.

 

On Wednesday, Chiasson posted a copy of the letter and a photo of his sign on Twitter, and called out the town of Wellesley in the tweet: “Do you really want to try to enforce this?”

 

Chiasson, a poet who teaches at Wellesley College and writes for The New Yorker, has lived in Wellesley since 2012. He ordered the vinyl banner from Vistaprint.com for $112.06 last June. The banner measures 12 feet by 2½ feet and is emblazoned with two words — IMPEACH TRUMP — in big red capital letters.