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Bob K
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 11126
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 5:58 pm: | 
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In drving around the towns last weekend I couldn't help but notice that campaign signs for the BOE race are springing up like daffodils.
Folks, those things are expensive. I think around $3.00 per copy. Where the heck is all the money coming from?
Years ago a friend of ours ran for the BOE. His entire campaign budge was under $500. What does it cost to run for the BOE these days? Do BOE candidates have to provide disclosure to the state like other candidates?
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Hank Zona
Supporter
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 5404
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 6:22 pm: |
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I saw my first "altered" campaign sign...a sign for a solo candidate with half of a sign from candidates running together. I wonder what the candidate cut off the team sign thinks. |
Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 454
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 6:25 pm: |
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"If coach hadn't cut me...we woulda' been state champs...no doubt in my mind..." |
Jgberkeley
Citizen
Username: Jgberkeley
Post Number: 4521
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 8:52 pm: |
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"Do BOE candidates have to provide disclosure to the state like other candidates?"
I ran a few years back as well.
The answer to your question is YES. Candidates have to file forms to disclose all income and expenses regarding the campign.
And, I ran, self funded for around $500 and I lost.
Should I have accepted funding, well, I still just do not know. My gut is no. that much money should not be part of local BOE politics, IMO.
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composerjohn
Citizen
Username: Composerjohn
Post Number: 815
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 8:56 pm: |
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"How much you wanna bet I can throw a football over them mountains?" |
Mr. Big Poppa
Citizen
Username: Big_poppa
Post Number: 568
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 9:11 pm: |
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"Kip, I reckon... you know a lot about... cyberspace? You ever come across anything... like time travel?" |
Parkbench87
Citizen
Username: Parkbench87
Post Number: 3935
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 9:44 pm: |
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Vote For Pedro for SOMBOE |
Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 456
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 10:00 pm: |
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I'm glad some people recognize good comedy when they see it |
composerjohn
Citizen
Username: Composerjohn
Post Number: 817
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 10:07 pm: |
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"If you vote for me all of your wildest dreams will come true" |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 13393
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, April 3, 2006 - 11:24 pm: |
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It seems that winning local elections is correlated with having the most lawn signs. But I don't know if that's a symptom or a cause.
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Hank Zona
Supporter
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 5410
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 5:48 pm: |
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interestingly enough, the altered sign is no longer altered today. |
ess
Citizen
Username: Ess
Post Number: 1623
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 - 10:12 pm: |
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One of the candidates is a neighbor. There are signs for this candidate peppered throughout the neighborhood.
Would it be obnoxious to put up a sign for another candidate?
Just asking. |
Hank Zona
Supporter
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 5416
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 - 11:16 am: |
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ess,
If you feel strongly about a candidate AND wish to publicize it, by all means put a sign up. It would be obnoxious and immature for someone to take exception to you appropriately displaying your support for someone else. |
Bob K
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 11139
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 - 11:44 am: |
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Hank, "obnoxious and immature" is pretty common around here during the election cycles. 
Otherwise I agree. |
ess
Citizen
Username: Ess
Post Number: 1629
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 - 6:31 pm: |
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Sadly, I do not feel terribly strongly FOR any of the candidates, but that is based mostly on lack of detailed knowledge of what they stand for. I do, however, feel strongly AGAINST certain candidates, but that alone is not a reason to put up a competing sign.
Better to have a silent lawn, I suppose. |
Hank Zona
Supporter
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 5429
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 - 8:05 pm: |
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ess,
interesting synopsis..cant say I disagree with some of your thoughts. Try the MOL-meter that I use for local elections...see what candidates get anonymously bashed the most on MOL and give them a closer look. |
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