After a whirlwind month of controversy, record-breaking, and awards, Morgan Wallen's bar has reached a new milestone, finally getting its sign.
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Morgan Wallen's This Bar opened in downtown Nashville earlier this year, and it's been constantly receiving customers. You'd think he'd have a right to hang a sign of his bar on his bar, right? Wrong, as it encroached the city's right of way.
And at the time, the city council was none too happy with him.
The hospitality company behind the signer's bar had to reach out to the Metro Nashville City Council to ask permission for the sign. Due to his controversial behavior which was still fresh, the council denied the sign. They didn't want to flaunt the name of the singer using racial slurs and recklessly throwing chairs off rooftops.
Considering his recent court hearing and cooperation, however, Wallen has changed the tune of the council. According to Wiskeyriff, the vote turned out 30-1 in the sign's favor when the issue was recently voted for again.
So This Bar is getting its sign thanks to the city council, proving that amends have been made.
One City Council Member Doesn't Particularly Like Morgan Wallen
The one city council member who voted against the sign was Delisha Porterfield, who has been fiercely anti-Wallen from the start.
When the vote was first cast earlier this year, she explained that his behavior was the reason she didn't want his sign hanging in Nashville. "I don't want to see a billboard with the name of a person who's throwing chairs off of balconies and who is saying racial slurs and using the n-word, so I'm voting no," she said at the time.
She likely used the same line of reasoning here, although no official account exists of her rejection.
It is also possible that others voted for the sign considering just how popular the bar is despite his controversies. At least his cooperation with his sentencing promises that he'll clean up his act.
