Get rid of the stupid political signs

vauxhall said :

Mr Gillespie said :

Big deal about the signs….. let’s fix Canberra and throw out “Ms” Gallagr and “Ms” Hunter/Bresnan/Le Coulter on October 20. Send them the message we will not be walked all over by a bunch of petty greenie whims imposing their own laws on the rest of the population.

The signs will be gone after the election, so let’s grin and bear it, there’s only a few weeks to go anyway.

Why have you put Ms in quotation marks?

He doesn’t agree with anything that occurred after 1961?

Mr Gillespie said :

Big deal about the signs….. let’s fix Canberra and throw out “Ms” Gallagr and “Ms” Hunter/Bresnan/Le Coulter on October 20. Send them the message we will not be walked all over by a bunch of petty greenie whims imposing their own laws on the rest of the population.

The signs will be gone after the election, so let’s grin and bear it, there’s only a few weeks to go anyway.

Why have you put Ms in quotation marks?

Mr Gillespie said :

Big deal about the signs….. let’s fix Canberra and throw out “Ms” Gallagr and “Ms” Hunter/Bresnan/Le Coulter on October 20. Send them the message we will not be walked all over by a bunch of petty greenie whims imposing their own laws on the rest of the population.

The signs will be gone after the election, so let’s grin and bear it, there’s only a few weeks to go anyway.

Ah, Mr G returns, just when I thought you’d finally built your bridge.

Big deal about the signs….. let’s fix Canberra and throw out “Ms” Gallagr and “Ms” Hunter/Bresnan/Le Coulter on October 20. Send them the message we will not be walked all over by a bunch of petty greenie whims imposing their own laws on the rest of the population.

The signs will be gone after the election, so let’s grin and bear it, there’s only a few weeks to go anyway.

There are guidelines you can look at online saying where they can and can’t put the signs – using Gov property like light poles and bridges is a big no-no and will get your signs impounded I believe. I think there is a bit of a game of catch going on with the Rangers some times when the elections come up.

I am amazed at how little effort I have seen in trying to get any details out to the people – only the signs and one pamphlet in my mail box. Maybe a bit of coverage in the media. Those stupid trailer based signs are usually very annoying and located on roads where you are driving faster so don’t have time to digest much of the info anyway.

housebound said :

watto23 said :

Its called brand recognition. There will be plenty of people who vote based on who they’ve heard of or seen. After all only a stupid person would vote for someone they know nothing about….

Thing is, Labor is not leaving much of a brand. More than a few candidates seem to want to be Greens (green posters) or Community Alliance Party (same shade of orange). ALP candidates also have sky blue, red and a darker, Liberal-style blue. No matter what the colour, their names are so small, when driving at 80 I can’t read them at all.

I think the sky blue ones are from that Glen McCrea chap running in Belconnen. His signs are quite bright and noticeable.

Campaign signs keep me awake on the sometimes boring highways.

johnboy said :

Wrong as usual SnapperJack.

I would say partially wrong. The rangers have been removing signs, not sure though when and why. Though did see a ranger removing signs on Gininderra Drive a bit over a week ago. The candidate in question had 4 or 5 in a row which were removed, now there is just 1, plus 1 each from other candidates but spread out.

housebound said :

watto23 said :

Its called brand recognition. There will be plenty of people who vote based on who they’ve heard of or seen. After all only a stupid person would vote for someone they know nothing about….

Thing is, Labor is not leaving much of a brand. More than a few candidates seem to want to be Greens (green posters) or Community Alliance Party (same shade of orange). ALP candidates also have sky blue, red and a darker, Liberal-style blue. No matter what the colour, their names are so small, when driving at 80 I can’t read them at all.

Labor isn’t alone in that, the libs are doing it too. You would be hard pressed to find out which party someone is representing based on the road signs without looking very closely.

But I gather that is the ploy from both sides. Get a name out, don’t overtly associate to a particular party and who knows on polling day someone may vote for you without realising you are on the wrong side of politics.

I like them as they help me recognise the names of politicians I won’t vote for.

Got a fridge magnet with some would-be politician’s picture on it last week – as a marketing tool it obviously failed, but it’s holding up various bits of paper quite well 🙂

Ellenborough St., Kaleen.
Candidate poster on the Gungahlin Drive bridge that is visible for people travelling west (from Kaleen to City).

I THINK it’s an ACT election candidate, as opposed to a missing person sign, but too small to see who or what party he represent. (can only make out that it’s a male candidate)

It’s not an eye-sore, but there was no way I would spend too much visual time off the road in front to try to make out the name of the candidate. Not all voters have 20-20 vision.

I have seen a whole pile appear on Isabella Drive. Then to my amusement, some were ripped down, and replaced by some from another faction and so on. They are now all quite close to street poles, I assume to prevent people running over them. With the wind the other day several got loose and were blowing over the road. I watched one blow up in a gust. If a car had come along it would have plastered itself across their windscreen.
In the past I had a sign for the Guinea Pig show blow off the side of the road and the stick hit my car, putting a small dint in it. I didn’t bother even contacting them as the dint was so small it’s hardly noticeable, but it would have made a big difference if it hit my windscreen.
These signs are a nusience, people who put them up should be fined.

Having driven Erindale Drive a number of times recently, my mind has been exercised by the possibility of incinerating the Joyous Burch corflutes.

Along the lines of a powerful water pistol squirting petroleum jelly, covering each face, and then igniting same with some form of flame thrower.

This is all beyond my technical talents, so I would appreciate input from similarly inclined Defence related arsonists. 🙂

watto23 said :

Its called brand recognition. There will be plenty of people who vote based on who they’ve heard of or seen. After all only a stupid person would vote for someone they know nothing about….

Thing is, Labor is not leaving much of a brand. More than a few candidates seem to want to be Greens (green posters) or Community Alliance Party (same shade of orange). ALP candidates also have sky blue, red and a darker, Liberal-style blue. No matter what the colour, their names are so small, when driving at 80 I can’t read them at all.

Yes, it’s really passe and pointless.

I would say I won’t vote for anyone I see such a sign for, but that’s a given anyway and thus isn’t much of a threat.

Its called brand recognition. There will be plenty of people who vote based on who they’ve heard of or seen. After all only a stupid person would vote for someone they know nothing about….

I love the fact that, by and large, the fight for recognition is against their fellow party candidates.

To any candidate reading this – if I see your face or name on a roadside sign littering Canberra’s roadways, I will be sure to put your vote at the bottom of my voting paper.

PS why put your desperate faces on them anyway, we vote by names/party groups and not by attractiveness.

I actually find them really distracting driving at night in the dark areas, as I’m usually keeping an eye out for roos and sometimes from a distance in the unlit areas you just see “an object” and it’s not till you get closer you realise it’s just a stupid sign.

Well I actually thought that *all* roadside signs – not just political – were banned in the ACT. Something to do with the garden city image. I know that in past elections whenever signs appeared they were quickly confiscated by rangers so I don’t know why we have such a tsunami of them this time.

I’m with you on this! If they think i’m stupid enough to simply vote for the person whose name I saw last (or the most) on the side of the road, they’re mistaken (I’m talking to you Liberals, with your cars/trailers stopped all over the Parkway!). Talk about desperate!
If you want people to remember you favourably on polling day, come up with sound policy ideas and promote them. People will then decide if they like your direction or not!

Problem is, it’s the politicians who’d have to ban ’em!