I just got an email message from my state representative which included this paragraph:Several people have contacted me requesting McCain-Palin yard signs. The county Republican Party has a limited number of McCain/Palin yard signs, bumper stickers, and three types of buttons available at their office. A $3 donation for each yard sign, $1.25 for each bumper sticker, and $3 for each button is requested.Once upon a time these political advertising vehicles were offered free. I think that it is good that they are asking folks for donations to recoup their costs. I think that Obama's campaign might have a similar approach.
Of course my campaign yard signs, stickers and buttons are all offered free of charge.. if you just make them yourselves :)
I am sporting one political ad on my blog for my friend Nick. Are you wearing any political buttons (even on you blog), sporting any bumper stickers or displaying any yard signs this year?
In leawood, you cannot have more than one sign that sends the same message. Just trying to save you some construction paper before you make your signs.
ReplyDeleteThanks Scott! I knew that we were limited to one but didn't know we could do more than one with different messages.
ReplyDeleteI have a magnetic Obama/Biden bumper sticker- just came in the mail yesterday. As I understand it, Obama yard signs are pretty hard to come by.
ReplyDeleteBob - you guys and your elections continue to humour me. You should be charging rent for using YOUR space to put up THEIR yard signs.
ReplyDeleteGood point - make them yourselves!!!
We put out a No to stem Cell research sign in 2006. Our neighbors took a big piece of plywood and made their own to counter our sign
ReplyDeleteI've found that you can steal the ones from your neighborhood and cover them with your own name and slogan. Saves campaign costs. Also, it's best if you do this at night.
ReplyDeleteNo signs or buttons...but it did remind me of a story.
ReplyDeleteI was a youngter when Eisenhower was running for president. I ask my mother why everyone was wearing buttons that said "INK"...she corrected me that it was not ink but IKE!
Wanda, that brought back my earliest memory of political campaigns when a "Vote for Ike" car drove by my house complete with a loudspeaker system that shouted out "Vote for Ike".. it must have been 1956 and I was 7.
ReplyDeleteNo scarcity of available Obama signs in rural Oregon. I've got two up, plus a handmade sign, which you can see on my blog if curious. I have had people stop and tell me I had the "wrong" sign up, though. ^_^
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