LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The mayor of a central Nebraska community is bemoaning the public fervor over a resident’s sign about President Barack Obama.

Minden Mayor Ted Griess says he’s asked the property owner who posted the sign to remove it. The sign read, “AIDS Ebola Obama — Thanks Africa.” Griess says the owner has removed the sign from his private property.

Griess says he told the owner that the sign sends the wrong message about the community with a population of just under 3,000. He says the owner had the right to express his political views, but that he and others saw the sign as very “distasteful.”

Nebraska state Sen. Jeremy Nordquist posted on Twitter on Tuesday that he disliked the sign.