amnesia seems to set in over at campaign headquarters, and those signs become litter that borders on or surpasses blight.
These political campaign signs can be found on both public areas and on private property; parks, roadsides, sidewalks, buildings, windows, etc.
Suggestions that I contact the campaign offices are useless, because if I call before the election to ask them to clean up post-election, they either lie and assure me it’s a top priority or they claim they’re too busy to even think about it and that it’s a low priority matter. If try to contact them after voting day, many of them close down on election night and there’s no one available. Trying to contact the city or county government has been ineffective also.
Are politic signs littering the neighborhoods an issue where you live, especially post-election?
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Thank you for bringing that up: I have just edited my post as such: Trying to contact the city or county government has been ineffective also.
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Sounds great! Liberal-minded California (even though claiming to be pro-environment) will probably never allow such “intrusion on personal freedom”.
Ok, thank you. It appears passage of a law and compliance with the law or enforcement of the law are quite different things.
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Thank you.
I‘m not just referring to lawn signs, I’m referring to all campaign-related outdoor advertising, which is a lot here on Southern California, and it can be found both on public property and on private property.
A slew of it gets erected at every election cycle, a slew of it remains after every election, sometimes for weeks or months.
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Thank you.
From my perspective, regardless of size, all litter is litter.
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Thank you. I’m not specifying either conservative or liberal signage, conservative or liberal campaigns, the focus is on litter being left standing regardless of party affiliation. It’s also on various and sundry locations, not just people‘s yards, which I think is the homeowners’ responsibility to remove or not remove, as opposed to the campaign personnel. I’m mainly referring to the over abundance of signage that can be found in almost any location throughout a neighborhood, which has long been the situation where I live and where I travel throughout certain area of the city and/or county.
One of the answers that appears above calls to mind an important factor: while there may be areas in my city and county where political campaign signage does get cleaned up after an election, I wonder if it’s the less-fluent areas where it doesn’t happen in a timely manner or at all.
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I see the exact opposite in many parts of San Diego County. The higher-end areas are practically pristine almost year-round, and even during election cycles when campaign signs are displayed there, they also get cleaned up pretty quickly. Of course, my entire lament stems from those areas on the other end of the affluence spectrum, those either very close to where I live and interspersed where I live.
EDIT: Affluence apparently is the deciding factor in whether or not an area gets cleaned up.
“That does not always equate with affluence.”
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You’re correct, I’ll edit it. I meant to say that your last sentence was what I’ve seen as being the opposite. Affluence apparently is the deciding factor in whether or not an area gets cleaned up.
“That does not always equate with affluence.”
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I’m not saying it’s a 100% across-the-board phenomenon in either all impoverished areas nor in all affluent areas everywhere. I’m just relaying what it’s like here now. I don’t disagree with your last statements.
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