It’s The Saint Paul Way

I’ve lived in Saint Paul for most of the past 25 years.

And in that time, the half-life of a GOP campaign sign in my neighborhood is roughly five days.  They – every single one of them – gets stolen or destroyed.

“It’s just kids out pranking” say the local DFLers.  “There’s nothing political about it”.  But my DFLer neighbors’ signs remain blissfully undisturbed.

(And at least one source reports to me that they’ve seen a middle-aged woman in a mini-van stealing Tony Hernandez signs.  Pranking kids?  I think freaking not).

Whomever it is, it means either…:

  • The DFL in Saint Paul runs a perennial campaign to silence dissent, or…
  • DFL-leaning “Kids” (and “moms”) have no respect for difference of opinion.

Neither of them is a particularly flattering verdict of the Saint Paul DFL.

I got this email earlier this week:

This is a burned Vote Yes sign in the Macalester Groveland neighborhood of St. Paul.

There are several Vote No signs up and down our block. All unscathed.

This needs reporting.

This is not the first time this has happened.

More of that respect for diversity, I guess.

10 thoughts on “It’s The Saint Paul Way

  1. You could argure that this is a death threat. “Last night it was your sign. Tomorrow night it could be your house”.

  2. The last presidential election my daughter saw a classmate of hers with about 50 McCain lawn signs stashed in her trunk. Her “friend” told her she would go out at night and snatch them off of lawns.

  3. Arson is not a child’s game. If I saw someone setting fires on my lawn, I’d be tempted to use my scatter gun to put it out.

  4. Every year you guys put out this indignant outrage about your signs getting jacked around. It’s nothing new. My Vote No sign has been thrown into the street 3 times already and once I had to retrieve it from the roof. I live in dead red Apple Valley, so I just go with the flow. You characters need to do the same.

  5. Be glad it’s just fire and vandalism. If Dog Gone had come by she would have scribbled a 2,000 word stream-of-unconsciousness all over the sign with links to fever-swamp “fact-checkers”.

  6. Dave, its not you guys, its Mitch simply pointing out in true blue St.Paul people’s signs for GOP candidates tend to have an odd habit of disappearing or being vandalized. If you think that conservatives do it as much as liberals than bravo, our disinformation is working out quite well. And frankly yours sounds more like idiot kids, your sign was never stolen

  7. Complaining about vandalism is “whining”?

    OK, AC, give us your address, and we’ll give you nothing to complain about. You’ve effectively given us permission, after all.

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