The Ohio State Highway Patrol has been notified about the illegal signage that is littering the medians on the entrance and exit ramps along I-275, and they said that they WILL be removed over the weekend and the campaign will be footing the bill if they are removed by the state Patrol. So, if you would like your signs back, and you would like the chance to put them in A LEGAL LOCATION, then you better get to stepping and pick them up. Oh, and please see election signage law for proper sign location. You really are creating a hazard on the highways in terms of where you are putting them. I have faxed pictures and locations to the dispatch at the Post.
Locations: On ramp to I-275 N to columbus, from rt. 125.
On entrance ramp to I275N at Rt. 32
And the other ramp on 275.
Please, quit posting illegal signs. Thank you.
Oh, and by the way, here is the ORC (for you carpetbagging resume fluffers, that is the Ohio Revised Code) referring to advertising on highways:
ORC § 5516.02. Limitation of advertising devices along interstate highways.
No advertising device shall be erected or maintained within six hundred sixty feet of the edge of the right-of-way of a highway on the interstate system except the following:
(A) Directional and official signs and notices that conform to rules adopted by the director of transportation;
(B) Signs advertising the sale or lease of the property upon which they are located;
(C) Advertising devices indicating the name of the business or profession conducted on such property or that identify the goods produced, sold, or services rendered on such property, and that conform to rules adopted by the director;
(D) Advertising devices that are located in commercial or industrial zones traversed by segments of the interstate system within the boundaries of a municipal corporation as such boundaries existed on September 21, 1959, and that conform to rules adopted by the director;
(E) Advertising devices that are located on the premises of a professional sports facility and that conform to rules adopted by the director.
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ORC § 5516.99. Penalties.
Whoever erects or maintains an advertising device in violation of sections 5516.01 to 5516.14 of the Revised Code, or rules adopted thereunder, shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five thousand dollars.
Hat Tip to Bizzyblog of the glorious SOB Alliance!
Oh, and someone over at Right Angle Blog notes that this tactic is popular for folks who are "from out of state", and, I guess, those who are carpetbaggers as well!
4/23 Update
ATTENTION SMITHBOTS:
Oversaturation is possible. I mean, putting four signs within 10 feet of each other on Eastgate Blvd.? Come on! Putting 8 signs at one intersection?
And to you Clermont County folks, just remember, this is the guy who says his bread and butter district is the 2nd Congressional, where he got all of 362 votes, and where his opponent had to call and inform him of when a county endorsement meeting was. This is a guy who members of the Central Committee in the county never heard of, and probably most of you didnt hear of until you got bombarded in Eastgate with oversaturation. I asked people yesterday evening and this morning in the area, and they said it was overkill. They said it was rather stupid looking and pretty lame.
And, most noticed the signs were placed right on the highway, where it is quasi-legal and where also you don't have to have permission. Therefore, you aren't seeing wideranging support, you are seeing clever sign placement. I mean, 40 signs in 15 miles on one stretch of highway is a bit extreme, especially when it is on blank land. It would be different if it were forty households, but all you really had was a lone smithbot who cruised rt. 32 for 15 miles, putting up signs on empty land. Doesn't say a whole lot for the candidate, now does it? Of course, this will not stand, and there WILL be a response!
Of course, you know, out of state signplacers, aka carpetbaggers like the Reform Ohio Now movement and the Kerry campaign, use oversaturation. Hmm...is there a coincidence between them and Mr. Charisma? Cooooouuuulllld beeeee.......
Don't fall prey for the overkill and oversaturation. Vote for the real candidate with substance, not someone who equivocated on his own ambitious and self-serving drive for power in other states, and definately not the incumbent who has let us down time and again for the last 12years!
Vote for Bill Pierce, Repbulican for US Senate, May 2nd!
4/23 Evening Update
Have you ever noticed the EERIE similarity between Mr. 362's signs, Patty DeWine's signs last fall, and Pappa Mike's signs from election 2000? A little TOO eerie of a similarity, if you ask me....Maybe Orrin Hatch suggested the designs....(pictures to follow....stay tuned)
