This owner needs a publicist - the only persons I have even seen who are more desperate for attention than she is are the Kardashian Krew - at least they have managed turned their need for attention into millions. This desperate soul only seems to manage to make headlines only in the Dunedin Patch. - My bet is that this newest cry for attention and publicity is a feeble attempt to recoup some of the business this owner probably lost pre-election. Statistically this busines had to have lost a measurable percentage of their customers who did not support the political views that were posted so out there and in your face and as such found another laundromat. At least a good publicist would tell this business owner to stop using a viable profitable (?) business this way, lest it is ruined it in the long run....

I don't need to use a laundromat but if I did, I would not use this one.

Something like this, may be better:
I'm sorry for the words I said. The words I wrote, they were untrue.
So to everyone that helped me build my business, I apologize to you.

In this country we have freedom of speech regardless whether others agree with us or not. I don't support his position or his words but I defend his right to say it. Just want the same for me when I speak.

This is far from being an Olive branch of any kind, this is, was and always will be a cheap way to gain attention for a run down laundry mat. Freedom of speech is great and I would give my life defending it. This is not freedom of speech, it's cheap and sleezy advertizing right across from where our kids go to their library. These people would use a naked clown dancing out front if they thought it would turn a buck! These are serious times we live in and we need serious talk and hard work to move ahead from all sides of every debate. This newest pornography of words splashed on a window represents nothing this town stands for, nor ever will.

This is not a newsworthy story. I wish Dunedin Patch would stop giving this business so much free advertising.

They have every right to say what they feel and believe! The trash talking Dummycrats got away with it during the election. This current White House staff is taking us down a dark road to recovery.

The Rogers family are my dearest friends. They would give the shirt off their backs to anyone who needed it. How dare you judge people you don't even know! This isn't about politics, this is freedom of speech. The only thing that is "rundown" is your lack of tolerance and diversity of opinion. By the way, Obama authorizes drones to kill innocent children= "collateral damage." The next time you take your kids to the library across the street, try checking out some books on what it means to violate the constitution. You are all hypocrites. I am not a Republican or Democrat.

I Love my country, we have so many freedoms, speech being a very important one! I find everything that happens in my community news worthy, be it dogs marching in a local parade, crime, or what" message" a business has posted on it's window. It got your attention and the hair on your back up. the message did it's job. These are serious times of that there is no doubt. We are loosing freedoms in a sneaky and manipulative way.........watch out or you may not be able to speak your mind in the future, you may not be able to express your self. the U.S. Constitution is being challenged everyday.

Typical extreme, fanatical, right wing, tea party rhetoric. How "Christian"....lol. Yes, your party lost. It lost BIG TIME. The Rick Scott "voter purge" attempt and 7-8 hour lines didn't work. Barack won FLORIDA by 70,000 votes, won every swing state except NC, won the popular vote by what, 3 million? And he got 332 Electoral votes. Tea party hatred and bigotry FAILED. Seniors, like myself, don't have to worry about "vulture capitalist" Romney and Lyin Paul Ryan turning Medicare into a "voucher" program or privatizing Social Security, as Ryan enjoys TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZED health care. The voters have spoken. Thank God that Dunedin is a quaint town with MANY sane, down-to-earth people. And, yes, we can patronize who we want..........☺

Obama is a corporate sell out funded by Wall St. He is not for the people. He is helping turn our country into a fascist police state. This is not right wing rhetoric. He is a total fraud. He didn't get elected because the people voted for him. True democracy is a thing of the past. Your rights are gradually being eroded and you don't even know it because you fell for the illusion. Get the facts.
Go to website below.
http://nader.org/2013/01/25/obamas-record-belies-inaugural-words/

Karen and Victor: Good for you for saying what every small business owner feels in their hearts and would have loved to say. Joanne Wilson

karen and victor get my support,there great people,who cares about the political stuff in the windows,your children see worse stuff on bill boards as you drive on 19

Here are some "facts" about Obama being compared to a VERY popular president. Maybe the most popular. Read the comparisons and think, without the bigotry. Coming from "humble beginnings" and being called a "sellout" and traitor......http://www.progressivepress.net/two-presidents-curious-similarities/

Virulent political posturing aside, and without casting aspersions on the alleged decency and generosity of the proprietors, I consider the new version of window dressing every bit as offensive, poisonous, and disrespectful as the original. The image of hugging an elephant is cute. The "ad hominem" affront to our re-elected President, indicated by the capital "A", betrays the reality that the perpetrators have elected to persist in their unrelenting alienation of significant numbers of potential customers. That is an expression of their freedom, choice, and their degree of sincerity. But please, olive branches and hemlock have different roots! As Socrates discovered, the latter is suicidal.

The owners of that business can kiss my ass! If he wants to remain an ignorant idiot and show his stupidity I'm all for it. I'd rather not give business to someone that's is so ignorantly stupid. Watching Paul Ryan on Meet The Press this morning and he talks about how the GOP has had things taken out of context. Welcome to the club jerk. The whole " you didn't build that" speech was taken out of context and used as a tool for fools like this Dunedin business person. Maybe I'll come in and was a bunch of pens markers and dry some plastic or tar soaked junk. I'm always looking for a laundromat I can wash my grungier oil soaked rags in. Thanks for the tip.

If my children and I came up to that window, I would immediately turn around and not do business with them.

I believe in the right that allows them to put that sign in the window but I think it's petty politics and insulting. Why a business person would want to alienate customers like that is beyond my logic. I wouldn't do business there.

It's good business for a laundro-mat owner to support any party that blocks jobs bills and wants to destroy the middle class. As it shrinks and people are forced from their homes, rental occupancy, and poverty, the chief determinants of laundromat demographic use, increases. What is not smart is letting your customers know you support the economic policies that led them into the poverty of the laundormat economy..

The only thing funnier than the posting of this low-rent sign on a store front is the pathetic attempt by a few to try and justify its validity. These are not happy well adjusted people. In fact, if you make the mistake of parking in the wrong spot and go into what was Iris's Cafe, these people will have you towed before you eat your first french fry. I have sat on a window booth and watched it happen to a 84 year old lady. The laundromat was empty and the sweet old lady did not see the sign. She was towed before I could get a refill on my tea. These are mean people and their sign speaks volumes. If you support them I'd venture to say you are mean too!

Wow, I go out of town for a few weeks and come back to this?! Free speech does not allow you to harm others with words. These people are not free speechers their birthers. They should think seriously about relocating to Arizona. They would fit in great next door to that lovely sheriff they have out there! I will not park my park anywhere near that place. I was looking forward to the new Iris but now I'll just wait.

I agree with you Mr. Harris! Mr. Wilkes Yeah I know lol, I've always heard you have to be careful there not to park in the wrong place! God forbid the lady just try to get along with others. My mom told me this place was all the buzz at Patrician Oaks and everyone there knew not to use them.

Yesterday, after reading all the comments and making a couple myself, I went for my usual walk on the trail between Union st and Skinner. I decided to ask people I saw if they knew of a good laundromat to use. Out 6 people asked, all strangers, all six directed me to locations other than the one in this story. 2 people said nothing of this place until asked what about the one next to Iris's. Their response was no you don't want to go there. The other 4 independently brought up the fact that I should steer clear of the one by Iris's. All total the six strangers I spoke with were very clear. One of the people had a first hand experience they shared, stating they had lost money in a machine that never cut on and was told they were lying by the attendant, so they took their blanket, which was soaked by the soap they had added and left never to return. Guess the issue is more resolved than I first thought. Poor customer service in the end will always determine the fate of any business regardless of political pronouncements.

Jasminetea, facts are facts. Drop by any laundromat and it becomes apparant this is the primary deimographic. Google an upscale large area like Fishhawk ranch and see if you can even find ONE laundromat there. Google laundromat demographic and you'll see the same, urban, renta, lower income. I'm sure even Donald Trump has used a laundromat at some time in his life, but you wouldn't want to open one next door to him, thinking you'd get rich off his business. It would be foolish, wouldn't it?

Considering the Dunedin community is so very gay friendly, I think it is in poor choice for the owners of this establishment to try and turn their end of Dunedin "red". Granted, I am aware of the fact that it is a sweeping statement to assume that all Republicans are against gay rights, but it does not bode well considering many are. I do believe in the freedom of speech, as long as you do it with tact.

I certainly chuckled when I saw the new message in the window. But it's not the way the "poem" was originally written. The last sentence should read:

"I'll hug YOUR elephant, You kiss MY ass"

I stopped going there many years ago. Karen took my wet clothes out of a washer and threw them on her filithy floor becaause i had the neve to order breakfast from Iris's while i was using her facility. She's a nut job!!! Victor was always nice when she wasn't around, perhaps a little too nice and flirty if you know what I mean.
I've lived on Douglas Ave walking distance to their laundrymat fo 20 years. This neighborhood isn't going red anytime soon. In fact it's turned bluer!