http://www.buckeyestateblog.com/dem_yard_signs_vandalized_how_should_we_respond Comments for "Dem Yard Signs Vandalized -- How Should We Respond?" en http://www.buckeyestateblog.com/dem_yard_signs_vandalized_how_should_we_respond#comment-11936 That's what some people are planning to do! I asked if a particular candidate was targeted more often, but that doesn't seem to be the case. There was a theft of a set of Republican signs as well as the Democratic ones in the most targeted area, so we think it was just a Saturday night prank. Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:03:04 -0700 Lucie comment 11936 at http://www.buckeyestateblog.com http://www.buckeyestateblog.com/dem_yard_signs_vandalized_how_should_we_respond#comment-11926 and people are reporting the thefts to the police. Some think it is a concerted effort -- guess we may have to take more evening strolls around here, which might be a good idea anyway. Sad when the other side resorts to stifling free speech by stealth! Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:59:41 -0700 Lucie comment 11926 at http://www.buckeyestateblog.com http://www.buckeyestateblog.com/dem_yard_signs_vandalized_how_should_we_respond#comment-11925 Lucie Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:50:34 -0700 Lucie comment 11925 at http://www.buckeyestateblog.com http://www.buckeyestateblog.com/dem_yard_signs_vandalized_how_should_we_respond#comment-11921 signs, just come down to ODP. My father got his Strickland sign stolen in Reynoldsburg too, and he is ticked off. Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:35:05 -0700 Todd Hoffman comment 11921 at http://www.buckeyestateblog.com http://www.buckeyestateblog.com/dem_yard_signs_vandalized_how_should_we_respond#comment-11919 New report -- as of 8:15, someone reportrd two Democratic candidate's signs taken out of two yards on Evening Street (4 in all) -- they saw a car pulling out of the driveway and called the police. I have not heard of any Republican signs being taken! Hmmm. Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:58:11 -0700 Lucie comment 11919 at http://www.buckeyestateblog.com http://www.buckeyestateblog.com/dem_yard_signs_vandalized_how_should_we_respond#comment-11861 do it. just aim for their feet. Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:48:53 -0700 trellis comment 11861 at http://www.buckeyestateblog.com http://www.buckeyestateblog.com/dem_yard_signs_vandalized_how_should_we_respond#comment-11671 Stick a cheap webcam out there, with some luck you could post the results and prove your point. Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:22:45 -0700 raz comment 11671 at http://www.buckeyestateblog.com http://www.buckeyestateblog.com/dem_yard_signs_vandalized_how_should_we_respond#comment-11652 It was a Dem, and a lawyer at that, who got his child to do the dirty work.  Surely we are above and beyond that. Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:31:00 -0700 Muffet comment 11652 at http://www.buckeyestateblog.com http://www.buckeyestateblog.com/dem_yard_signs_vandalized_how_should_we_respond#comment-11639 During the 04 campaign I lived in a community that split 50-50 between Kerry and Boosh on election day. I was a Kerry volunteer and distributed yard signs. Many of those signs disappeared across the community on a single night, including mine. I went to the police station the following day and a cop simply shrugged and said, "We've gotten the same complaints about (Boosh) signs disappearing." It's all part of the game. I guess the worst thing about the experience is a feeling of violation -- having someone unknown trespassing on your property and doing as they will. In the future they just better hope I don't catch them. Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:37:29 -0700 mvirenicus comment 11639 at http://www.buckeyestateblog.com http://www.buckeyestateblog.com/dem_yard_signs_vandalized_how_should_we_respond#comment-11634 Anyone who stoops to doing the yard sign game is obviously desperate. Anyone. Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:49:31 -0700 Paul comment 11634 at http://www.buckeyestateblog.com http://www.buckeyestateblog.com/dem_yard_signs_vandalized_how_should_we_respond#comment-11622 Yes, by all means, report it to the cops. You might encourage your colleague to also include a NO TRESPASSING sign in the yard. Vandalism and Trespass, however, do not truly need a sign to be enforceable. Also, encourage your friend to take photos of the signs and the later damage. BTW, it sounds like Karl Rove's dirty tactics. Whoever's doing it needs a criminal record. Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:35:40 -0700 J-Dog comment 11622 at http://www.buckeyestateblog.com http://www.buckeyestateblog.com/dem_yard_signs_vandalized_how_should_we_respond A Worthington resident whose yard has good visibility, says he has had his signs for Dean Hernandez and Mary Jo Kilroy ripped up repeatedly. This is the first report of this that I have heard here in Worthington. Are other people having this problem? Should he make a police report? I know there were pretty fierce sign wars in Upper Arlington during the Kerry campaign -- the incident that sticks in my mind was that a Republican official (I think he worked for the city of Dublin) directed his fourteen year old child to take a sign out of a Democrat's yard. She had carefully obeyed all laws on where and how political signs can be placed, and caught them doing it. She did not prosecute because she didn't want to do that to the child -- but she, and most of us, were horrified that the father set such a poor, mean-spirited, undemocratic example. Is this just a sign of frustration? Weakness? Incipient Rovian behavior?! http://www.buckeyestateblog.com/dem_yard_signs_vandalized_how_should_we_respond#comment District 15 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 07:58:40 -0700 Lucie 3306 at http://www.buckeyestateblog.com