Legalectric

Campaign signs on vacant lots?

Campaign signs on business property?

Have owners given permission?

Is it an in-kind corporate donation?

There’s a pattern here in Red Wing of putting campaign signs on land owned by folks far away, well, not in Red Wing, where owners do not know of campaign signs on their property. The above at Withers Harbor Dr. and Old West Main is very small spuds, but it’s a start, and it’s very doubtful the owner in Minneapolis knows about it. There were two of these smaller signs when I first saw it, now there’s one.

Hopefully in this election cycle candidate campaigns know better than to try this again, here’s one on property owned by company in Ramsey, MN, a ginormous sign that they knew nothing about… so they said and also that it was bad for business! I believe them. This wasn’t the first huge campaign sign on this roof, but it better be the last:

Or this, owned by company in Hudson, WI, who had no idea this was going on — said no knowledge — also said that it was bad for business! I believe them too!

Campaigns, just don’t. I saw a guy responsible for much of signs out in Red Wing, the Republican signs and also the Recall signs, scouting out the lot where the trailer was. There are no signs there yet, and I do hope he got the message. Just don’t!