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August 22, 2006

Political Signs Still Up

You see them everywhere: on the side of roads, nailed to trees, stuck in yards. I three 4x8 Harold Ford, Jr. signs on the way to and from work.

You don't see them in Bartlett, which requires a hefty deposit before the election and has a strict 3-days after the election and they're gone rule.

But Memphis doesn't have a rule. Any rule. So policy defaults to this:

A state law does, however, require that all signs be removed within three weeks after an election. Problem is, the law provides no punishment if they remain in a yard till doomsday. After all, those with the signs make the rules.

Just another piece of the incumbent protection culture of career politicians.

Posted on Tuesday at 11:26 PM in category
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I guess since I have not had any signs printed or deployed I can speak to this as a non-affected party. The signs on public byways are certainly target for removal, however the ones on private property (someone's yard) are beyond the scope of legislative action.

In this Nation we have this pesky First Amendment thing. If I want to have a campaign sign in my yard until doomsday, that is my right under protected political speech.

Posted by: John at August 23, 2006 9:51 AM

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