Just who removes campaign signs?

Published 4:22 pm Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Campaign signs – we all love to hate them. They tend to clutter our streets and view, but they are the necessary tool to let all of us know who is running for office.

Yes, there are newspapers and other resources to alert us, but we don’t all read, so it seems these signs are the best way to know who is running for office.

What I find very disturbing is to see signs go up for the candidates – then you start noticing that just one candidate’s sign is slowly missing, or broken, or simply pulled up and left on the side of the road. This can’t be blamed on those who are walking by, as they would probably vandalize all the signs, not just those of one specific candidate.

So that leads me to wonder. One candidate’s signs are down, broken, missing. The other candidate’s signs are still up and pristine. Who do you think damaged the first candidate’s signs? Surely, not the candidate. Perhaps that candidate’s “peeps” were charged with the task?

If that’s the case, I couldn’t and wouldn’t vote for a candidate whose “peeps” are the new thugs in town. We don’t need mafia technics running our city.

I’m watching this kind of activity very closely, listening and reading when I hear the “peeps” of both sides talking about their chosen candidate. If the “peeps” aren’t reliable, and working for positive and constructive solutions, neither will the candidate. Anger and mob practices won’t “clean up this city.”

Voters: chose wisely.

– Arlen Franklin