Sign, Sign, Everywhere A Sign!
It's the scourge of the leftover campaign signs.
It happens after every election, in every city. The hard fought battle is over, the victor victorious, the losers lament and crawl off to lick their wounds. The signs remain!
And we're left to gaze over the scarred battlefields, empty lot after empty lot, until Mother Nature, or the recycler, cleans up the dead!
Even the poor trees can be a casualty!
It seems better than usual here in Fort Lauderdale after last Tuesday's election, some signs have already disappeared, but some not! ...... Some still survive from Elections Past!
But there are a few solutions! ......
One solution is to e-mail the local recycling group Trash to Treasures .... they say schools like to use the signs for art projects, and if they get too many, they recycle the plastic. Their e-mail is veckels@gmail.com
Or, you could do like I did,
............................... use them for wall art!
It happens after every election, in every city. The hard fought battle is over, the victor victorious, the losers lament and crawl off to lick their wounds. The signs remain!
And we're left to gaze over the scarred battlefields, empty lot after empty lot, until Mother Nature, or the recycler, cleans up the dead!
Even the poor trees can be a casualty!
It seems better than usual here in Fort Lauderdale after last Tuesday's election, some signs have already disappeared, but some not! ...... Some still survive from Elections Past!
But there are a few solutions! ......
One solution is to e-mail the local recycling group Trash to Treasures .... they say schools like to use the signs for art projects, and if they get too many, they recycle the plastic. Their e-mail is veckels@gmail.com
Or, you could do like I did,
............................... use them for wall art!
Gremlin once owned the extremely limited and now rare Tim Smith poster depicted as a wall hanging and often viewed it with a sense of regret for what "might have been". Now, the small voting pool has anointed a new mayor who may or may not actually live in Fort Lauderdale. BUT, he assures any reporter willing to listen that he has a long standing affection for and ties to our fair city. At least until the next appealing elective office becomes available. Remember the adage, a public office is a public lust!
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Gremlin,
Get over yourself... I believe there was more media coverage of this election than any other in Fort Lauderdale history, so if he voters decided to stay home that is their choice. But the ones that came out and voted spoke. Over 16,000 Fort Lauderdale citizens voted for the Mayor, of that Jack Seiler received over 9,216 (55.28%) the closest to him was Dean Trantalis 3,634 (22.59%) that is a 5,582 vote difference, I think that is a wide margin to say the majority of voters wanted Jack Seiler to the Mayor of Fort Lauderdale. And unlike our new president I didn't see anything that lead me to believe he was anointed.
Now that the campaign is over and Jack has certainly won the election your selfloathing blithering moot. So I suggest you sit back and watch the next three years and see for yourself that the those 9,000+ voters made the right choice for Fort Lauderdale.
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Dan, it is seldom that one has an opportunity to read a truly inane blog response but you have now won that distinction. Gremlin was merely commenting on the poor voter turnout and the "fact" that Siler had a problem determining his one true residence. From those comments you somehow donned your psychiatric hat and pronounced Gremlin as "self-loathing". The only thing Gremlin loaths is stupidity.
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what a timley blog post tim. I find it kind of interesting I called steve glassman on wensday to congradulate him on a good try( he promtly answered his phone),Also while speaking with him i asked him when his campagine signs would be removed from my properties, he said he had a person going around this week to remove all of them and mine should be gone by friday. They are still there.I do not think it is fair i have to pay my own people to pick them up.I also called rodstrom on her cell phone wensday and friday both times leaving a messsage to please call me back( I was going to congradulate her and also ask her to remove her signs.No return phone calls. Makes me think did the voters realy make the right choice?
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As I've said all along, she DOES NOT respond to her constituents..especially AFTER she has won the election. Get used to it, we're got a couple more years of it to endure!
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Have you noticed the only campaign signs I still see here and there around the city belong to Charlotte Rodstrom..... our city commissioner!
Please Charlotte, do the right thing and get out there and get them picked up like everyone else has. One more thing, please recyle them!
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The Seiler campaign informed anyone with our signs immediately after the election that they could leave them at 2850 North Andrews Avenue, Wilton Manors, FL 33311 where we are disposing them with someone who recycles them into plastic pallets. As well we have had our Sign Team working every day since Wed to comply with the City Ordinance to have them removed by next week.
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I didn't see Tim Smith on the ballot I had. He would have been good too, but I don't think he was really running
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I would much rather re-use your signs, if you would please run again!
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Tim - Is there not a city code that says that political candidates have a certain deadline after an election to dispose of all campaign signs or face fines?
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They are required to be removed with 30 days after the election.
I think posting this on a Friday, just 2 days after the election is a bit petty.
Asking volunteers to go out the next day and take down signs is a bit of a kick in the teeth after working so hard on a campaign.
I think we have more serious things to worry about (and I'll begin to worry after the 30 days in the ordinance has passed.)
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Paul......There is a law!..... I'll have to bone up on the details tomorrow and let you know the specifics!...thanks for asking!....Tim
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I received a mailer from Teel where she blames Bruce Roberts for the high pension costs. Who is she kidding; Roberts never set policy and never negotiated any benefits, that’s what the commissioners do. Was Teel asleep during negotiations and forgot it was her job to set policy (not a police chief). Also she voted for three police and fire contracts since becoming a commissioner which all included the current pensions. It’s amazing how when being faced with a viable opponent she now is against the very thing she voted yes for.
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The candidate should take the initiative to have the signs removed, leaving them up is bad form and disrespectful to the neighborhoods now burdened with campaign trash on their swales.
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