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The signs they are a-changing… in Sammamish anyway

August 31st, 2009 at Mon, 31st, 2009 at 5:56 pm by Jake Lynch

I was starting to wonder if it was just me who gets kind of annoyed by all those little campaign signs along the side of the road.

“Vote Fella X – he’s your man.”

In this day and age of awareness about visual, and other, pollution, and material waste, it seems funny that candidates still think that plastering eye-sores like that all over a city, at whatever cost to themselves, is a good representation of themselves. We managed to figure out that kissing babies was a cheesy thing to do – hopefully it won’t be long before candidates realize that much better use of their money and our rubbish dumps could be made than all those little signs.

Apparently Sammamish Council candidate John Curley had the same idea – he was determined to not buy any signs, but his campaign supporters urged him to, despite his protests.

So, as a compromise, for every sign that his campaign volunteers buy, Curley will donate one dollar to nonprofit group American Forests. One dollar = one tree.

Hey, I know it’s all campaigning, but that’s just a good idea. Some ways of impressing the media are better than others…

Jake Lynch Editor of the Issaquah and Sammamish Reporter.

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