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A Washington state agency has dismissed a complaint filed against a Tri-City political action committee over some controversial campaign signs. The complaint centered on allegations that false and intentionally misleading signs were placed next to a Kennewick School Board candidate’s signs. The We Want Accountability PAC posted signs pointed at school board President Michael Connors’ signs, with messages like: “Voted With Liberals 100%,” “Kept Our Kids In Masks,” and “Supports CRT (critical race theory) in Schools.” State campaign finance laws prohibit sponsorship of statements with malice that constitute libel or defamation. But staff with the Washington Public Disclosure Commission...

LEE'S SUMMIT, MO — In an effort to escape the wrath of a weaponized federal government, supporters of former president Donald Trump are placing Biden signs in their yards with the hope that it will cause the FBI to pass over their houses. "Of all the different catastrophes plaguing the country these days, we expect these FBI raids to be the worst," said Josh Wears as he hammered the post bearing the Biden sign into his front yard. "If we make it look like we're devoted Biden followers, maybe the regime will have mercy on us and we'll be spared."...

On a recent walk, I came across a neighborhood littered with the yard sign in this photo. It seems the provocative platitudes we’ve seen on bumper stickers for a century have now taken root in our yards. And for the same reason: To tell the world that the sign-planter holds wonderful beliefs that he’s willing to impose upon and attribute to the rest of his family. It’s surely not because the sign-planter thinks he’s persuading anyone of the rightness of his position, as if the neighbors reading the sign will say to themselves, “Gee, ‘Democracy dies in darkness’ is a...

A few weeks after we put up our secret Trump sign, I started to see more go up in my neighborhood. On one nearby street, five formerly bare houses in a row now sport American flags. While driving around my neighborhood early this fall, I suddenly realized I was seeing bare yards where in previous election years there have always been billboard-sized Republican signs. Once I started seeing ghosted Donald Trump signs, I couldnÂ’t unsee them. Judging by my neighborhood and those nearby in my Midwestern town, plenty of Democrats feel safe displaying their voting preferences, but Republicans do not....

CLEVELAND (WJW)– In the midst of what seems to be a very divisive political season, the theft of political yard signs has some taking extreme measures to destroy and to protect them. Hinckley resident Barbara Cummings said she has never put political signs in her yard before, but this year, she decided to place two signs on her property supporting Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. One was stolen. She said she didn’t give it much thought until a couple of days later. She was startled by the lengths someone went through to destroy the other. “I was in the living...

A Massachusetts man went to extremes to protect his support for President Donald Trump after he said several of his Trump signs were stolen from his lawn. "It's a shame I have to do this," said John Oliveria, who's a member of the New Bedford School Committee. A Trump sign on a lawn isn't uncommon, but a Trump sign surrounded by electric wire fence is. "I believe in the president. Obviously, people didn't like it," said Oliveria. "Horse wire carries a charge. Certainly will send a message." The lifelong New Bedford resident, except for his 20 years in the U.S....

Political leanings have been expressed through crimes in recent weeks in Northampton and Bucks counties, Pennsylvania State Police reported. State troopers have been called to investigate theft or damage to campaign signs or flags for both President Donald Trump and his 2020 challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, as follows, according to news releases: Overnight Aug. 12 into Aug. 13, a 62-year-old woman told state police at Dublin her “2020 Trump flag” valued at $20 was found burned on her Center Hill Road property in Nockamixon Township, Bucks County. “Biden for President” and “Black Lives Matter” signs, each 18 inches...

After each long day of working on the United States’ pandemic response, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert power-walks through his Northwest Washington neighborhood with his wife and their daughter’s dog. Recently, Anthony S. Fauci’s nightly jaunts through the neighborhood where he has lived since 1977 have taken him past at least a dozen signs bearing his name — tokens of appreciation for his staid service on the White House coronavirus task force. “I have been, for so long, a quiet, inconspicuous person in my neighborhood, and now there are signs up telling me that they love me,” Fauci marveled on...

A lecturer at the State University of New York at New Paltz was caught on video stealing Republican yard signs in New York. Laura Ebert, who is an economics lecturer, has been charged with misdemeanor larceny for stealing signs endorsing Rep. John Faso (R., N.Y.) for Congress and Marc Molinaro, the GOP gubernatorial candidate in New York. Video shows Ebert pulling up to a woman's front yard, getting out, and putting the political signs in her pickup truck.

We've spent our summer travelling America's byways on mostly US, State, County, & local roadways. Very little on interstate highways. Due to the changing dynamics over the summer I'll only comment on our west to east return over the past month. We've seen zero HRC yard signs, precious few Bernie bumper stickers, fewer HRC bumper stickers from the primaries, a few huge semi-trailer sized Trump signs, & between 5 and 10 small Trump yard signs. The road sides were littered with all kinds of local signs though. We were shocked when we noticed the lack of presidential yard signs across...

I convinced two of my neighbors that never vote (Single guy and couple) to vote Trump. They have busy street frontage so after I convinced them to vote, I offered to pick them up yard signs. Some jackwagons came and stole one sign and both neighbors were outside. They got away with one sign. The other neighbor was outside trying to rig up a motion sensor and light when the jackwagons returned for his sign. The perp gets out of his car and can not see the neighbor. The neighbor yells "Can I help you Mother F'r" The perp jackrabits...

A man in Massachusetts says someone has been stealing Donald Trump signs from his yard for months. He has finally caught the thief red-handed. Joe Ricci says this was the final straw. Surveillance video captured what he says has been going on for months. Someone taking those big blue "Trump" signs right out of his yard. "He saw my truck wasn't in the driveway, so he grabs the sign and off he runs." His camera is close enough and clear enough, he says, to identify the person in the video as his neighbor's teenaged son. We blurred his face because...

I don't live in a battle ground state but I've noticed a lack of yard signs this year for politicians. Four years ago it seemed that everyone had a yard sign and Obama was everywhere, even here in southern Kentucky. I've seen a few bumper stickers on vehicles over by the university but really haven't seen a lot of them either. I'm curious if anyone else could tell me if I'm just early or just in the wrong place to see the usual mania that the elections provide. I keep seeing the polls and wonder if there's so much support...

Sorry if this is incorrect please feel free to modify or delete as necessary. By: Ken Timmerman Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley ordered state highway workers to remove political campaign signs for Republican candidates during the weekend, according to GOP candidates and homeowners.

A couple in Bothell have been targeted in a campaign that involves destroying signs supporting Republican candidates, and replacing them with signs for RepublicansAreADisease.com. The website, which is an anonymous wordpress blog, encourages it's readers to print out signs reading, "Republicans Are A Disease" and "Republicans America's Worst Enemy" and place them on their own and public property, and to "tell their neighbors how they feel about the criminals in the GOP." The website does not say to destroy other people's property or to replace republican signs with the anti-GOP signs. This did not stop the destruction of the signs...

I remember my anger and confusion. Thinking to myself, "how could any rational, educated person support a man who has no executive experience? Who worked with the Democrat Socialists of America? Who represented ACORN as an attorney? ACORN! The antithesis of all things American, undermining the integrity of our very voting system! After the election, I recall a bitter taste in my mouth. Scrutinizing my neighbors. Questioning them, mentally, as to their motives. More than a year later, the Obama bumper stickers and signs have all but disappeared. The economic disaster, endemic to any Socialist strategy -- and especially that...

A word of advice. Take down your yard signs. Peel off your bumper sticks. The angry left will be angrier than ever and is looking for scapegoats. Don't be a scapegoat.

CHAPEL HILL - After Shawn Turschak saw two sets of McCain-Palin signs disappear from his yard within hours of being planted, he took steps to protect the latest pair. On Monday, he ran wires from his house and hooked the signs into a power source for an electric pet fence. Then he mounted a surveillance camera in a nearby tree and wired it to a digital recorder. Tuesday afternoon, the camera saw this: A neighbor trotting up with an Obama-Biden sign, grabbing a handful of volts as he touched a McCain-Palin sign, then fleeing at top 9-year-old boy speed. A...

Here’s the kicker: these people aren’t McCain supporters. Several are working for Obama now in both states, because they have political jobs and thus must tow the party line. Others are voting Green and no longer campaigning for anyone, but are tuned into things in their states.

LONGWOOD, Fla. -- The home of a Central Florida Republican headquarters manager was shot up and damaged over his support of Sen. John McCain, the man told police. Rog Coverely said several pellets pierced his Longwood home. Coverely showed several spiderwebbed-holes in the front windows of his home. The Republican manager said he is convinced he was targeted because of new McCain signs he added around his home. "All I can tell you is this, I have a very good relationship with my neighbors," Coverely said. "I mow my lawn. The only thing that has changed is I have two...