I will not patronize any business that has political signs in front of it. They are a scourge on the beauty of our area. I will also never patronize a business that puts up such signs. The law allowing them needs to be changed.
Statistically, political signs have been found to have very little effect. Like billboards – which are gloriously absent from our state’s roadways – these signs should be as well. I believe it is actually a violation of free speech to not allow a business to request a sign-free zone.
State property belongs to all of us, who, in Maine, pay higher than the national average in taxes, receive lower-than-national-average wages and get an international embarrassment for a governor for our troubles.
This is why I am begging my husband (a true Mainer by definition) to get us out of this state. He has not yet budged. If I succeed, Maine will be missing one more University of Maine college graduate in engineering from its ranks.
Not having the right to remove a sign from a small strip of land in front of your business is one more point in my argument.
Freedom in Maine? What a joke!
Cynthia Callnan
Portland
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