I don’t know about where you live, but in Amsterdam there are still many election signs up. Some of them belong to candidates who were defeated in the September primaries. What’s really weird, however, is that two days after the election I saw a guy taking down campaign signs, or so I thought. Then I looked closer. He wasn’t taking them down; he was putting them up. Yes, several Arthur Welser for Congress signs were installed in Amsterdam two days after the November election. Welser was one of several Democratic candidates in the 21st Congressional District race.
I’m not sure why someone was installing Welser signs after the election, although the following quote taken verbatim from Welser’s website might give a partial explanation.
“Let us continue our pursiuit in making the US # 1 in education World Wide.”
3 Comments
November 14, 2008 at 9:13 am
Incredible, Dan. It reminds me of a little crusade I went on a couple years ago. I went to the website of a local public school and was hit in the face by a grammatical error. So I snooped around and found several more, as well as innumerable typos. I sent an email pointing these out. Instead of saying, “Thank you,” they were quite miffed. And these are the people that are teaching our kids. Amazing.
And AMEN to getting the signs down!
November 14, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Maybe folks are trying to create their own change somehow, kind of like the George W. Bush election where he leveraged an act of congress to get his position.
December 13, 2008 at 2:26 pm
AKA, I feel your pain. It probably has something to do with the fact that I have a journalism degree, and that I work for CampaignPros.com, but the 1st thing I do when I get a piece of political mail is scrutinize the entire piece. I canvass it for any error I can find. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I would vote across the aisle if I caught a typo, but that weighs heavily on my decision. If you can’t spell, how can you run my district.