Not actually raining

[jhetley]

Gray morning, forecast of showers later, chance of snow up in the hills. 

Not all political signs yet removed.  There's a law, people.  You have one day more . . .

Comments

[caitlin.livejournal.com]

Is there a law against discussing who the president AFTER the newly elected (but not yet in office) one will be?

Jindal, Huckabee, and Romney are going to make a visit to Iowa... this week.

I don't care WHO won the election. To start discussing the NEXT Presidential race not even a week after the last election drives me totally crazy.

C.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

If you check back posts, you may find that I predicted the start of the 2012 campaign would come after the combatants got a good night's sleep.

[caitlin.livejournal.com]

Oh, I do remember seeing that.

Doesn't make me like it any better though.

*SIGH*

C.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

There's no law against you (or anyone else) harvesting a few of those signs. Coroplast is useful for a number of things*, and political signs are a source that comes free.

* For example, the reason we didn't get drenched by this morning's rain is that the holes in our roof from Hurricane Ike -- which we have not yet managed to find a contractor to fix because they're all swamped -- are being covered by political spam signs. They work much better than blue tarps.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Actually, in Maine there _is_ a law. If it isn't on your own property, you can't remove a campaign sign. Only the candidate or designated campaign staff can do that. Keeps people from trashing the signs of candidates they oppose.

Had a candidate (losing) for county sheriff run afoul of this last year. He was just helping to clean up after the vote . . .

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Wow, that really sucks -- both that the law is needed, and that it applies after the election is over.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Well, that sheriff's candidate would likely not have attracted Legal Problems if he hadn't then thrown his competitor's sign in the river.

Littering. And creating a nuisance.

You know.

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

In Philly, there was a candidate who was famous for not taking his signs down. Eventually, two groups took to defacing the signs in imaginative ways (making him look like Mickey Mouse, etc.). Alas, most campaign signs are too boring for that to work.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that, in Dallas, almost all of the big Coroplast signs disappeared within a day of the election. I suspect that they were all turned into loungers.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Most of the remaining ones are those plastic (vinyl?) sheet pockets stretched over a metal wire frame. Not much use for seating. Although some people evert them and use the now-blank versions as windscreens for protecting shrubs through the winter . . .

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

I need about four or five of those myself, as they make great indoor painting dropcloths.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Did a survey this afternoon, about 2 miles worth. Most of the signs still on that route were posterboard, folded and stapled around the aforementioned wire frame.

I guess you could use the backside of the posterboard for something . . .

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with an old discussion from Mad magazine circa 1978. I don't have any problem with people leaving up their signs a week after the election. However, I agree with that Mad writer that all candidates, winners or losers, must personally eat all bumper stickers and political signs still up by December 15. Without catsup.