Submitted by a reader: The Argyle el stop this morning.
Update: More "overzealous volunteers" getting creative. A reader wrote: "My wife just texted me that Emily Stewart's campaign volunteers got on a 148 bus just a couple minutes ago, handed out campaign flyers and got off at the next stop. She couldn't get a picture because it happened too fast. It's not legal. I just filed a complaint."
Just FYI and to be fair...I have seen signs for other candidates on a few pieces of public property.
ReplyDeleteI am too lazy to take a picture, but I can affirm it is not just Molly's campaign.
Disclaimer - I STILL have not decided who I am going to vote for, but am getting very excited.
I kind of think the public posting of signage for candidates adds to the excitement and competitive nature of this contest, but I guess rules are rules.
I would take litter created by people actively involved in the Ward and willing to put themselves out there to lead us vs. drug baggies, condoms, and needles any day of the week.
Good luck candidates!
Emily Stewart has posters on bus stops up and down Sheridan. Most of them have been turned into "artist" sketchpads...they are really a lovely addition to the neighborhood. Thanks Emily.
ReplyDeleteSo now we're getting to see which candidates are able to play well with others and which ones say screw Cleanslate and Uptown United, I'm gonna do just what I want to do because I'm just that special.
ReplyDeleteEnlightening.
It will be nice to be down to two candidates next Tuesday night.
ReplyDeleteLess signs on public property.
The question is which two candidates will remain.
ELEVEN candidates enter.
TWO remain.
Stewart is making a big push this week. Will it be enough to overcome the Molly Momentum?
Carroll is the King of social media. Can the king clobber? Can the cop conquer?
Baskin is betting booty$ that his campaign is bodacious. Is he borrect?
Nowatny is the nowhere man of this campaign. Will be be somewhere on Tuesday night?
Tune in to Tuesday night for more silly commentary.
In the meantime watch all kinds of silliness from various campaigns and their supporters and frenemies.
I just early voted and saw a ton or retta and lam campaign signs all over the place too. its not just molly.
ReplyDeleteclean slate was picking everything up and throwing it all in the back of their truck
please candidates, lets be kind and talk to one another and not just throw campaign signs and stuff all over the place. clean slate is busy enough as it is.
Irish Pirate, me thinks you were Howard Cosell in a former life.
ReplyDeleteStef,
ReplyDeletecould be.
I shoulda asked "will Baskin be basking in the thrill of victory on Tuesday or da agony of da feet."
I'm with Stash: Christmas only comes once a year, so what if some of the ornaments are ugly?
ReplyDeletePersonally, I'd love it if no one put up any signs, but once Baskin and Stewart started slapping up signs in the public right of way south of Irving, and the city did nothing about it, other candidates were bound to follow suit.
I feel special sympathy for Miguel DelValle. The biased media coverage and his self-imposed campaign financing restrictions leave his volunteers little choice but to boost his name ID but putting up signs wherever he can.
@IrishPirate:
Correction, there are 12 candidates for alderman.
2003 candidate Sandra Reed filed as a write-in.
Well, Cleanslate is getting rid of the signs, so it's just a big waste of money for the campaigns. What do the signs cost, a buck each? And all ending up in Cleanslate garbage cans. Clean campaigns? We don't need no stinking clean campaigns! Or clean streets! What we do need is Cleanslate -- glad they have so many extra duties thanks to candidates who wilfully break the rules they were given.
ReplyDeleteFunny how the Phelan campaign always has someone to blame: It's Emily's fault! It's Baskin's fault! It's the mailing house's fault! It's the designer's fault! It's your fault for asking for an accounting (even tho' I promised it to you a year ago).
It's like a day with my 3 and 5 year olds. Waah, waah, waah.
We were on Argyle Street campaigning around noon and saw a young gentleman in a Honda Accord coupe came out and ripped out all three of Ms Phalen signs. It took no more than 10 seconds. Then he drove East.
ReplyDeleteIt would be very easy for a member of one campaign to pick up free signs from another campaign, then put them up all over illegally to embarrass a candidate.
ReplyDeleteHappens all the time, just sayin.
As long as the signs are removed by the candidates' workers after the Election. I really don't see anything inappropriate about them. People in Tibet or Iran don't have the deal with campaign signs. They only wish they could. Are the happier or more free than us living in Uptown?
ReplyDeleteWell I am so GLAD the other campaigns are giving Molly's campaign a HUGE boost in exposure. You know what they so no press is bad press!
ReplyDeleteAnd just for the record, these signs are not on a residential street so it's OK for them to be there.
And to the folks who are tearing down signs, it is sad you have to resort to typical Chicago style poltical tactics because you are threatened your candidate's campaign is in going down in flames.
OK, everyone now get back to work lunchtime is over!
Who cares about the signs and what property they are on. If they are on public property and you don't like it, then tear em down. Otherwise, get over it. This is nothing compared to the sign stealing debauchery that accompanied most presidential elections. What I don't understand is the businesses with 6different candidate signs in the window. Makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteYou guys sound just like Shiller. You deserve the candidate you get. A bully who blames everyone else, and disregards the laws and Uptown United's requests? Don't we have one of those right now?
ReplyDeleteI'd like an alderman who plays well with others and follows the law, thenkyewverramuch.
Andy, saying that Chicago isn't as bad at Tibet is certainly a ... novel argument.
Boohoo,
ReplyDeleteIt is unfair to attribute anonymous posts on this blog to Phelan's or any other candidate's campaign.
OH gawd,
ReplyDelete...and the sign said long haired freaky people need not apply.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D59ZWa8ehgI
You folks are unworthy of a hyperlink.
Tuesday can't come quickly enough.
There's an inappropriate joke here.
Sign, sign everywhere a sign blocking out the scenery........
Read the signs from this interactive post on Uptown violent and drug crimes.
ReplyDeleteI should hyperlink it, but I won't.
I can't see the link for all the signs.
http://www.redlineproject.org/argylecrimemap.php
Per the picture of the Argyle stop - in Molly's defense, those signs are probably the only things keeping those supports from falling down.
ReplyDeleteNow here are some Chicago ghost signs worthy of a hyperlink.
ReplyDelete===Per the picture of the Argyle stop - in Molly's defense, those signs are probably the only things keeping those supports from falling down.===
ReplyDeleteYou read my mind. Kudos' to Molly for her Infrastructure platform.
On topic, off ward. The 43rd Ward candidates are going batty placing posters - EVERYWHERE. They've plastered my (and all others) street boxes. Makes the 46th ward look tame.
Apparently Ms. Phelan also has some zealous campaign contributors.
ReplyDeleteDriehaus, Richard
Occupation: Information Requested
Employer: Driehaus Capital Management 25 E. Erie Street
Chicago, IL 60611 $5,000.00
2/16/2011 1A
WILSON CARE 4544 N Hazel St
Chicago, IL 60640-5716 $2,000.00
2/15/2011 1A
It is nice to see some bigger contributions coming from our neighborhood for her. I was beginning to believe she could only raise the big dollars downtown.
I guess that $2000 from Wilson Care is money they do not need to take care of their patients.
http://www.uptownupdate.com/2010/08/riddle-me-this.html
I think the Phelan campaign is now over $40,000 in large contributions. My fingers got tired trying to work the keys on my calculator to add them all up.
Let us see what her 'formerly' downstate attack canine Yellow Dog Democrat has to say about that donation.
It seems to me he criticized the Michael Carroll campaign for a similar donation. Carroll may not have raised the money Phelan has. He does have some supporters IN the ward though and I hope to see him in the runoff.
It is nice to know what inside the ward and outside the ward interests are 'helping' various campaigns.
Tearing down signs seems childish to me.
ReplyDeleteWow. $40,000? That's a lot of cabbage.
ReplyDeleteI think IrishPirate would say that fundraising is one of the key ingredients to a successful campaign.
The best ideas in the world don't mean a hill of beans if you don't have the resources to get your message out.
On the other hand, money won't fix a bad candidate with bad ideas.
Blair Hull flooded the state with cash, and look how that one turned out.
Unfortunately for many residents in many wards of the city, the media has been too busy writing about @RahmEmmanuel's tweets to devote much in-depth coverage of the aldermanic races.
"Eh, we'll wait until the run-off," they say.
I'm predicting atleast half-a-dozen Scott Lee Cohen types will make it into the run-offs.
Hopefully, that won't happen in the 46th Ward.
Regarding the backing of Richard Driehaus, that's great news for Molly. I believe he gave $50,000 to Rahm Emanuel.
As for Wilson Care, the Federal government gives them 5 Stars out of 5 for Quality Measures. If you believe there is a problem there, you should alert the Illinois Department of Public Health or the watchdogs at the Illinois Citizens for Better Care.
My grandmother was the victim of medical malpractice at a nursing home, and I strongly believe we all have an obligation to report abuse, neglect, malfeasance, misfeasance or nonfeasance when we see it.
Otherwise, you are culpable.
Unfortunately for many residents in many wards of the city, the media has been too busy writing about @RahmEmmanuel's tweets
ReplyDeleteThat would be the tweets of @MayorEmanuel which have been garnering so much attention.
Now, while I'm still undecided for alderman (honest), I've already decided that I'll be writing in @MayorEmanuel for mayor.
Hey Irish Pirate, thanks for mentioning my site! I just moved to the neighborhood and I am wading through all the candidate information. I never would have thought that ghost signs would be mentioned on the Update!
ReplyDeleteHey Nicole,
ReplyDeleteI found the link here.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/
I suspect if you look you will see your site got thousands of hits the last two days.
By the way no need to "wade" through the candidate info.
Just ask yourself WWIPD and vote for the Capplemaniac.
Came home to a "Sandra Reed for Alderman" business card on our door buzzer today. So weird.
ReplyDeleteI don't mind all the political signage...it's par for the course.
ReplyDeleteWhat I DO love is the YO comment...about the signs holding up the pitiful underpass! :)
Being such a lovely night I decided to ride my bike around da ward.
ReplyDeleteSign observations:
Very few private residences have campaign signs of any type.
Many businesses have signs for multiple candidates.
Some campaign signs have started to appear on trees, lightposts, and the EL structure.
The Catholic Non Workers on Kenmore have a big self made Kaplan sign in the window. Is that property on the tax rolls? If not it might be time to sic the IRS on my friends in that house.
If the election were only held on the 4800-5000 blocks of Magnolia, Emily Stewart would rule. Virtually all the smaller buildings on those blocks have her signs in the windows.
Nowotny signs seem to appear in clusters among neighboring buildings. It makes me think of Broken Windows theory or how public health professionals track dangerous diseases during an outbreak.
Generally speaking if signage in private residences is an indication of interest in this election we can expect about 200 people to vote.
It isn't an indication.....I hope.
Just because it seems like this needs to be posted daily -- Campaign signs are PROTECTED POLITICAL SPEECH.
ReplyDeleteAnybody out there being sign police vigilantes is being willfully ignorant, and is no better than Machine goons who ran around pulling down 'Washington for Mayor' signs back in the day. Yes, I'm looking at you Boohoo.
Five days to elections, let's see some democracy in action.
And if litter really does make anyone this anxious, I invite you again to spend the day on the 800 - 1200 blocks of West Wilson, there's plenty there to keep you busy.
Then, "Joe," (ahem), you better start siccing the police on Cleanslate, who were very busy in the area around Truman College Thursday, RIPPING DOWN political signage that had been placed there. BIG, BIG, BIG trash cans full (thanks for all the campaign money, Richard Driehaus!). My particular favorites were the Andy Lam sign placed on top of a dirt pile in front of the Wilson el station, and the ones duct taped around city electrical boxes so they couldn't be opened. "Joe," you are REALLY GOOD (since you like typing in all caps) at blurring and deflecting the issues. Equating 1980s era racism with disobeying Uptown United’s request not to put up signs? That’s a page right out of Helen Shiller’s playbook! You're a textbook example of the bad political ploys that I learned about in Poli Sci 101. I wish I could have taken you to show and tell as Exhibit A.
ReplyDeleteWhen everyone on earth, except you, tells me that putting signs on the public way is against the law, then I'm going to believe everyone else. I don't tear them down, for the record, as you are implying. But I like to see the law followed and oh, yes, the signage HAS affected me. I voted Thursday afternoon after being undecided for most of the election season because there were so many candidates I believed were good for our ward. Honest. Ethical. How to decide between them?
For the record, the person I voted for was not Molly, although she had been on the short list, thanks to the illegal postering and your posts under different names. She's shown me with these issues that she's just a little too eager to break the rules, just a little too ruthless and desperate to get elected. Thanks for helping me make up my mind.