I posted on my own Facebook the story, and I said ‘it’s a shame that this billboard company said no to free speech and this message, we would have no problem doing that with our company…’ so I just thought ‘let’s donate the space on a digital billboard.’ With the digital platform we have, we thought it made a lot of sense.

Ike Wingate

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I saw the story somewhere online talking about how the billboard was rejected— a little bit vague on the details as far as who and why—but it was rejected because of the messaging and my understanding that it was going to incite feelings that would not be desirable around the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, when I saw that I thought ‘that’s too bad’…I thought ‘wow it’s a shame they are not able to promote that from the standpoint of the film’ but then from a secondary standpoint the right to free speech was in some senses denied, so I didn't like that.