Secrets of the City

Don’t take down the Coleman or Franken signs yet. You still have a chance to influence the canvassers.

Next thing you know they will make people take down their Wellstone! signs.

I like Ike!

Technically, the 10-day limit is only for towns that have laws restricting yard signs.

State law supercedes local sign restrictions during election season, which ends 10-days after the election.

If there are no local sign restrictions, you can keep your stupid sign up as long as you like.

What about your Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker? Isn’t it time for a change?

Gag, fortunately most of those disappeared after the DNC. There’s still one holdout in my parking garage though.

I still have my Gore Lieberman sign up.

I have Stevenson/Kefauver up in my yard, and I’ll be god-damned if the “I Like Ike” crowd tries to remove it.

OK people, listen up! I am not making this up! I am not misled! I swear I’m not! The City of Minneapolis says the same thing:

All campaign signs must be removed from Minneapolis lawns/property after Nov. 14. City statute restricts campaign signs in Minneapolis throughout the year and signs must be removed ten days after Election Day.

Along with removing their own campaign signs, Minneapolis residents are encouraged to tell their neighbors and friends about this requirement so they can follow suit.

This requirement only applies to signs directly tied to the election just concluded. In other words, only signs that have people or issues that voters cast ballots on must come down. Signs that address issues not on a ballot are not affected by this ordinance.

Bolding is mine!

I started pleading with Mrs. Champs to get rid of the Obama-Biden button on her purse last night. Please, that election’s over.

We don’t put up yard signs. All the neighbors do, though.

Normally I put a bumper sticker on the week before the election and take it off the day after.

Didn’t even do that this year.

Sandburg, your comment does not conflict with my comment. The 10-day rule only applies to cities WITH sign ordinances (like Minneapolis). Some cities don’t have sign ordinances, and therefore, people can keep their signs up.

My question is re “lawns/property.” If it’s off your lawn but in your window, does that comply with the ordinance or not?

I bet those hippies in Jason’s Maple Grove hood don’t have anti-speech laws like that!

In Maple Grove, we have the same code. No signs allowed in Maple Grove without a permit. Political campaign signs are an exception, allowed during the window provided by state law.

So my Bob Barr sign was removed on Friday the 14th.

It doesn’t, Jason, but people were asking the same questions in the blog comments as in the Metblog’s comments when I posted it there last week, and this is just for Minneapolis. Not sure about St. Paul, Edina, so forth. When I re-posted it to my own blog, I wondered if maybe I should include more info but figured that it’d probably go largely unnoticed and people might have probably seen it at Metblog anyway. Whoops!