Letter: Campaign Signs

Editor, The Friday Flyer:

So I saw the first political sign go up this week. It reminded me that it’s just the start of the visual pollution Canyon Lake experiences every time we try to elect representatives.

It’s maddening to see how all of us allow this totally unnecessary phenomenon to take place.

The clutter and tacky mess of thousands of signs displayed throughout our little village by the lake has got to stop. There is no need.

Just have the hacks running for whatever office put their signs at each of the entry and exit points to Canyon Lake. We all have to see their signs, but only outside and not compulsively displayed on most lawns and vacant lots, so please don’t bring up any free speech issues.

I am urging all of us, when approached by the politicians to put a sign in our yards, to quote the late, great Nancy Reagan, “Just say no!”

Stop them before they do the same thing once again and flood us with these really irritating, ineffectual, mini billboard eyesores that do no good for anyone.

I am actually going to practice a version of Ghandi’s Civil Disobedience and, each time I see a sign, I am going to bide my time. Then, when the time is right, i.e. when no one is looking, I am simply going to pull the sign up and place it face down in the dirt where it belongs.

The sea of flat signs in the dirt will tell the politicians to stop and do something different, like hold more public forums to get their message out.

Nothing illegal. I am not stealing the sign or removing the sign. I am but rather making a statement that the vast majority of us don’t  like the signs, and we have all just become used to putting up with the mess. I say no more of these @%(^&$# signs.

Anyone else sick of the signs? Please join me in taking back our village.

Jim B. Parsons