AnonymousBy an edhat reader
Why is it one group of politicians refuse to follow the sign posting requirements. Year after year, they go out in the middle of the night and post signs in the public easements, in the intersections of our public roads, on private undeveloped lots, etc. Anyone running for public office knows the rules. Signs can go on front yards with owner permission.
Businesses should not be posting political signs as they need permits to post any kind of sign on their properties. Now our communities will be littered with these illegal signs which are often not removed in the required 48 hour time limit after Election Day. If you can’t read and understand regulations, you do not deserve anyone’s vote.
Agreed. We have these freedoms in our spaces.
And I’m grateful we have simple rules that keep the public spaces from becoming messes and congested with political expression.
And this is not “cancel culture” as another poster introduced to the conversation. We’ve always had the ability to support whatever businesses we choose. This is something we all enjoy and exercise. Yet, somehow a large group of people have been led to believe that cancel culture is a new and partisan thing… LOL
You forgot about renters posting signs, not just property owners.
Are they also the people with “more money”?
@:2:39 If your point is we should get money out of politics and campaigns then you won’t find any disagreements from me, but I don’t the the “rich person party” is who you think it is.
VOR will temporarily be pausing commentary, as one of his major information sources caught fire in Los Olivos.
Whether businesses post signs on their own property is their prerogative, like patronizing their business is my prerogative. I boycott businesses advertising “christian values”, which I perceive as an insult to non-christians.
What a nag this poster must be! The signs will be gone in a few days. Just enjoy the evidence of an interested body politic and the signs of a democracy in action. (BTW the 1st Amendment may have a higher priority over political signage than a local ordinance.)
Just a guy–“fairness” would be equal opportunity and space for all candidates to post signs and share messages. It is not “fair” when only those with property can do this. Public spaces can and should be part of the public forum. That provides a little more “fairness.”
I don’t think they are a nag. They’re just interested in fairness, something that apparently doesn’t matter to you.
“interested body politic” is a funny way to say “Washed up, low IQ former teacher”
I don’t see the OP as a nag. I find these illegally placed signs very annoying, regardless of affiliation. Most of them are not gone if a few days, but are left up until they fall down (or are removed by annoyed people like me).
I’m against ALL these signs! I don’t care where they are and I don’t care who you want to vote for! I have seen both sides place signage on public property. OP didn’t say who, but I assume, since we’re on ED, that they are blaming the right. That shit’s everywhere. If you vote based on a sign or a commercial or a specific party, YOU SHOULD NOT BE VOTING! Don’t be an uninformed coward. Do research, find who you identify with, and vote. So sad
Idk how much it matters, the ones with the most illegal signs are most likely to lose (I.e. Lozano, Boat Rat Matt, wannabe culture warriors)
I live off a busy nexus where lots signs are placed in the public easement.
I can tell you it’s not just “one side” that does it, or does even it more frequently. I find it unsightly so I remove them all.
Annoying, yes, but hardly a sign of some moral degeneracy peculiar to whoever you are predisposed to despise.
That’s true for some major intersections, but ALL of the illegal signs I’ve seen on cathedral oaks are for that blond lady running for school board
The past few days I’ve driven most major streets in SB while looking for illegally placed political signs that a few are talking about. I saw exactly ONE on Saturday that was illegally placed along Las Positas by an (R) candidate, but was not there this morning. Just because a candidate or proposition that you do not support places a sign up that is “offensive” to you does not make it illegally placed.
Maybe someone can point out the business that does not have a permit to hang a political sign and/or where all the illegal “street” signs are placed. Please be specific….such as intersection/address and not “they’re everywhere, just open your eyes and look around” nebulous kind of thing.
Author sounds like another Democrat who wants the government to be able to control what people can do, say, think, act..
Cool, what’s your address? I’ll swing by this evening and throw a bunch of campaign literature on your front yard.
All good, right?
Asking political candidates not to break the law is “Democrat who wants the government to be able to control what people can do, say, think”? Quite the delusional thought stretch. You must be another pro-crime Republican/Libertarian.
Charge the candidate really. Do you think Salud knew his sign was stuck in my yard late one night?
Lompoc Valley has multiple signs put up at many intersections. It’s a mess. These are put up, at least initially, by the person or campaign. You can put signs in your yard, renter or owner. That’s the American way!!!!! Problem is some campaigns know they don’t have enough support or an organized enough campaign office to make the calls and get the signs out. so they go out in the middle of the night and put several signs up at key intersections and in the public easements throughout town. Look at the No signs for the school bond. This negative campaign is being run by a handful of the old timer Tea Party people and an ex school board member who never supported the schools. And then we have the back to basics school board candidate being financed by the same anti-school funding group. Let’s hope all the signs come down 24 hours after election day………after these campaigns have lost.
Does the display of (mostly) Ukranian flags at the State/Las Positas intersection constitute political signs? Is it permitted by the city as a flag or sign display? I consider it an eyesore even though I agree with the political statement.