Post-election political signs are visual pollution
Published 1:01 am Sunday, November 20, 2011
OK, you political winners and losers, it’s been almost two weeks since the election and your signs continue to blight our highways and neighborhoods.
I get it that you need to place your name or face in the public eye prior to the election, but enough already. Your political message has morphed into visual pollution!
You won (or lost). Now, begin your public service by assuring your trash is removed from our environment. I’m talking to you, Lynn Posey, and you, Alecia Ashley, Jim Hood, Marshand Crisler, Johnny DuPree, and Steve Simpson.
Don’t know where to look? Try the intersection of U.S. 61 and Oak Ridge Road. Try the corner of Mission 66 and Clay. How about the Beechwood intersection? There are other collections of political eyesores throughout the city and county — clean ’em ALL up.
You have an organization that was skilled enough to place those signs. Do you, and they, care enough about your constituency and/or fellow citizens to remove them now?
Joe Lorinc
Vicksburg