Every election season, thousands of campaign signs are stolen. We wrote about it last year, but an even stranger phenomenon is when a candidate his or herself gets caught in the act of stealing their opponent’s signs. Why do they do it? Why did the Nixon Administration break into the Watergate when they were already in landslide… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Signs
Candidate Runs Headlong Into His Own Election Controversy
In mid-November 2011, the Mayor of West Valley City, Utah was discovered to have been submitting letters to the Deseret News and other media outlets that got published. Mayor Mike Winder was discovered to be the fictional “Richard Burwash”, and the Mayor left his job as a PR professional, and is now involved in a… Continue Reading
Local Council Winner Spends Victory Night Taking Down Signs
Instead of living up his election night victory, or even getting a well deserved good night’s sleep, City Councilman-Elect of Mufreesboro, Tennessee–Eddie L. Smotherman–was up until 4:00 a.m. on election night (morning) taking down each and every one of his campaign signs. From DNJ.com: City Councilman-elect Eddie L. Smotherman said he wasn’t available for comment… Continue Reading
How Considerate! Candidate Takes Campaign Signs Down for the Holiday.
Is this candidate stupid, or has he just developed the smartest publicity stunt that will lead straight to his victory? Mayor Karl “K.C.” Zuber of Avon Lake, Ohio has taken all of his campaigns signs down for the Thanksgiving holiday. From the Chronicle-Telegram: Zuber decided to temporarily take down all of his estimated 400 campaign… Continue Reading
Enter This Contest to Win FREE Yard Sign Design
Campaign Trail Yard Signs (run by Ben Donahower, who wrote our very popular guest post, 3 Takeaways from Free Campaign eBook “Get Out the Vote to Win”) is running a sweepstakes from now until the end of the month to win a free, professional design for your campaign signs. To enter to win, all you… Continue Reading
Democrats in Connecticut Forgo Lawn Signs in Local Election
The debate between whether yard signs are effective or not is a never ending debate in local campaigns, but one thing is almost always certain, candidates still end up getting yard signs whether they think they are effective or not. We’re not going to enter that debate directly here, but instead focus on a group… Continue Reading
Legalize It! (Illegally Placed Campaign Signs, That Is)
A town in Utah is attempting to tamp down on illegally placed campaign signs–i.e. signs that clutter up street medians, parkways, the corners of parks–by “having a handful of designated public locations for campaigners to place their signs during election season.” According to the Standard-Examiner: City officials have had problems in the past with election… Continue Reading
Are Your Lawn Signs Being Stolen? You’re Not Alone.
We at Walksheet search through hundreds of articles about campaigns every week, and one that has come up the most frequent are local stories of people’s lawn signs being stolen. Stolen lawn signs (like lawn signs themselves) should be the least of concerns for campaigns, they often dominate the attention and efforts of candidates and… Continue Reading
Used Campaign Signs…In-Kind Contribution?
A City Council candidate in Washington State had a crafty and frugal idea–get hundreds of used campaign signs from a fellow politician and re-purpose them for her campaign. It’s doubtful she would have anticipated that her opponent is questioning whether she is breaking campaign finance rules for not paying fair market value for the signs.… Continue Reading