'I've had 100 calls today and not a single 1 of them was negative'

By Drew Zahn

Sign constructed in Colorado Springs homeless camp

Residents of Colorado Springs, Colo., have a mystery on their hands: Who came up with the idea to erect a sign reading "Welcome to Obamaville" on the site of a homeless tent camp in the city?

The sign, which was visible from the Cimarron Street ramp to Interstate 25, clearly conveyed a political jab at rising unemployment under [Alleged] President Barack Obama, for it read in full, "Welcome to Obamaville – Colorado's fastest growing community."

Colorado television station KRDO first reported on the sign earlier this week, but without any identifying logos or clues to the sign's origin, the station launched a public appeal for information on the sign's author.

KRDO got its first clue when Spencer Swann of Colorado Canyon Signs confessed to constructing the sign, though he denied it was his idea and still refuses to divulge for whom he built it. He did, however, explain that there was more to the sign's intent than criticizing the sitting president:

"You mention his name, you get some attention – I think that was the whole idea behind it," Swann told KRDO. "I didn't dream it up, but I thought it was a good idea. I thought that it would help some of these guys down here."

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COLORADO SPRINGS – We now know the reasons behind the "Welcome to Obamaville" sign near a homeless tent city at I-25 and Cimarron.

"You mention his name, you get some attention, I think that was the whole idea behind it," said Spencer Swann of Colorado Canyon Signs.  "I didn't dream it up, but I thought it was a good idea.  I thought that it would help some of these guys down here."

Swann designed the "Welcome to Obamaville: Colorado's Fastest Growing Community" sign on behalf of someone else, whose identity he wouldn't reveal.  Swann also designed a new sign Thursday that replaced "Obamaville".  The new sign reads: "Please help, we need firewood, propane and canned food."