Someone painted Bernie Sanders’ campaign slogans all over trees on a Florida beach and visitors there say it needs to go.



Bernie Sanders and his catch phrase, ‘Feel the Bern’ are painted on a number of trees on Longboat Key. Sheila Loccisano lives nearby and says she’s angry someone would even do this.



“My heart is broken,” she said. “And it makes me very sad and I can’t help but think that Bernie would not be happy with this.”



Katelyn Smith drove all the way from Plant City to take pictures on the beach. She says she didn’t expect to see the political signs here of all places.

“We’ve come here for probably the past 10 years just about and we came today to take my senior pictures and it’s vandalized and it’s pretty ridiculous that someone would want to do this to mother nature. It’s pretty disappointing,” she said.



No one has claimed responsibility for the Bernie signs. We reached out to the local Bernie Campaign in Sarasota County but haven’t heard back. A local Republican group is asking for an environmentalist or woodworker to come out and clean off the paint.



Loccisano says she just hopes whoever plans to fix this does it fast.

“I don’t care who you’re voting for. I don’t care your political affiliation, this is not the place. Write it in the sand,” she said.

Visitors say the signs started popping up a couple of weeks ago and since then more trees are covered in paint and Bernie Sanders signs.