News, Geoff Oldfather: English-speaker says landlord's message is clear. (highway, independence, county)

[JD59]

Tom McKenna is a longtime Stuart businessman who speaks only English.

He says that's why he's being kicked out of the storefront on South Dixie Highway where he has run Seacoast Water Care for seven years.

"I don't know how else to put it," said McKenna, 51.

I'm not sure I do either.

On July 5 — the day after Independence Day — McKenna received a letter from landlord Ivan Munroe telling him to consider another location.

Geoff Oldfather: English-speaker says landlord's message is clear : Martin County : TCPalm

[gallowsCalibrator]

On one hand, if the owner of the land wants to make everything in Spanish, then that's his right. If a landlord wanted to kick out a store that had their signs in spanish for one that would have it in english, it would be the same thing.

It's HIS private property subject to his rule.

However, if it was the reverse, I think it might've made national news showing the "divide" in America.