Meet the man behind the Trump billboard on I-25

You've probably seen the signs on Dallas Horton's Windsor property along Interstate 25.

In big white letters with red background, they read:

"Inaction will 

Sink our boat

Savvy citizens

Just vote

TRUMP"

These signs are the latest of a series of political messages on Horton's 25-acre parcel of land just north of the Colorado Highway 392 exit. Horton and other affiliates of the Larimer County Republican Party have been putting up political signs there for at least five years, said Horton, a 77-year-old cattle rancher who lives in Fort Collins.

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"I'm an ultra-conservative," he said. "I'm a Republican. So the signs have been to support various conservatives — usually Republicans.

"A group of us get together and come up with what we think are clever messages, and then we vote, and majority rules."

The group changes the signs every few months. Other recent messages have included an appeal to "protect our borders" and a series of signs wondering whether Americans' freedom will last.

Horton said his reasons for backing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump are "pretty clear-cut."

Trump will lower taxes, rid the country of excessive regulation and protect its borders. Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton won't, Horton said. He's willing to forgive Trump's "bombastic" nature because he agrees with his policy positions.

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The Trump sign has been vandalized three or four times, always with black paint at night. Horton suspects a single vandal might be the culprit.

"I wish he'd do it every night," Horton said. "I'd lie in the weeds and catch him."

After the presidential election, Horton and the Larimer GOP will probably replace the Trump signs with something else.

"We might put one up if Hillary wins about how terrible the country is going to become," Horton mused. "Eight more years of Obama."

Trump will be within miles of the billboard when he speaks at the Budweiser Events Center in Loveland on Monday. Horton will be there cheering him on.

This story has a correction: The second sign reads, "Sink our boat."