stop stealing my lawn signs!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Ward 5. Mayor Fenty himself came to my house and asked for my vote. While I don't love him, I don't think Gray is any better. After careful consideration, I've decided to give Fenty my vote and support. I had his lawn sign in my yard, as did about 8 of my neighbors. Well, for the fourth time, they have been stolen out of our yards. All but two or three of my neighbors have basically given up on replacing them. As for me, I'll replace it every day if I have to. I understand passion, but what the hell? Stealing lawn signs seems so innocent but it's not. It is malicious interference with an election. Does anyone ever get prosecuted for these types of crimes? I'm not saying throw them in the clink and throw away the key, but an arrest and maybe some community service? I'm so angry! And I'm sick of replacing my lawn sign. I guess the next one will go on the inside of my window.

Call the police and ask them to keep vigil over your yard every night until the election. Nevermind about murders, rapes, armed robbery, illlegal drugs. The police should actually care about political signs? You don't have to pay for them so keep putting them up. Why don't you chain one to a cement block and attach bells and whistles so an alarm will go off when these political sign thieves are busy with nocturnal mischief?

When you belittle free speech, you trash one of the founding freedoms of our nation. You don't get to decide which speech is important and which speech can be suppressed. I voted for Fenty, but I still know right from wrong. It is anti-American to suppress political speech.

I ran for office once and every night my signs were taken down by other opposition. Finally, I complained to VA Bd. of Elections and was told there was nothing illegal about this. I lost but I did receive 24of the vote.

They gave you bad information. In VA, it is at least petty larceny. Maybe they meant that it did not specifically violate campaign laws. This might be true, because I don't believe VA campaign laws cover the lawn signs. Campaign signs usually fall under local ordinance along with other signage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in Ward 5. Mayor Fenty himself came to my house and asked for my vote. While I don't love him, I don't think Gray is any better. After careful consideration, I've decided to give Fenty my vote and support. I had his lawn sign in my yard, as did about 8 of my neighbors. Well, for the fourth time, they have been stolen out of our yards. All but two or three of my neighbors have basically given up on replacing them. As for me, I'll replace it every day if I have to. I understand passion, but what the hell? Stealing lawn signs seems so innocent but it's not. It is malicious interference with an election. Does anyone ever get prosecuted for these types of crimes? I'm not saying throw them in the clink and throw away the key, but an arrest and maybe some community service? I'm so angry! And I'm sick of replacing my lawn sign. I guess the next one will go on the inside of my window.

Wow! Fenty should thank you for drinking the kool aid. At the very least, Gray supports all DC students receiving a good and quality education, including charter students. Fenty is adamantly against charter schools. Fenty also does not support the police and fire departments. Both departments are imploding. All you need to do is actually talk to some of the police officers, well they have to trust you to open up, so you might not past the muster. So if you can not have a frank and honest discussion with officers in the police and/or fire departments, hang around the courthouses and watch those verdicts come down, one after the other. Just recently a judgment of 13million against the police department for Title VII violations. Diane Groomes the culprit. Before that one , a different was rendered to the tune of 1million. The hits keep coming for there have been more and more to come. And what about the sanctions the federal judge hit DC with because of missing and perhaps shredded docs in the Pershing Park matter. The culprit in that case an Assistant Chief. All of this is public record. The fire department is only faring a little better. Please don't say but crime is down. Crime is down in the entire country, including Philadelphia, NYC, Houston and the Wire's Baltimore. Therefore, there is nothing special about DC's statistics, it's a national trend. The question is, if MPD is imploding from the inside, what happens when crime begins it's uptick. Police and Fire have been working without a contract for almost four years. Now, do you think they, the officers, are putting forth their best work, or bare minimum. I will admit, that their bare minimum is impressive, but still . . .

If I was so inclinefd to take signs, which I don't, these are very good reasons not to see that green trash littering the yards, streets and posts in the District of Columbia.

[Anonymous]

Not to mention the inside dealing from our Virginia-based "attorney general", Peter Nickles.

The whole thing is currently a joke. Too bad the DC residents are the ones suffering.

[Anonymous]

OP, why don't you just paint "FENTY" on the front of your house? I doubt that your house will be stolen.