Arm-twisting in political season

Suppose you are a vendor to the McHenry County Sheriff's Department. You regularly do business with the Sheriff's Department. You might not get a LOT of business, but it's regular. And, in this economy, every dollar of income counts.

Now it's political payback time. An employee of the Sheriff's Department contacts you and wants you to display a Nygren campaign sign.

You don't really want to, but ...

What do you do?

Politely decline? (and then wonder why you aren't getting so much business from the Sheriff's Department)

Or do you begrudgingly agree and allow that sign to be posted?

This is what needs to be cleaned up in McHenry County. "It's just politics, you say?" What is it, really? OK, you write the words. (You know why I'm hesitant. I don't want a letter from what's-his-name, who fights all those frivilous, losing, legal battles at the direction of Keith Nygren.)