political signs are personal property

October 25, 2008 at 2:33 pm | In barnstable town council |

Sunday - Last night two signs were stolen from our yard and the property across the side street.  Signs on the neighborhood triangles were stolen a few nights before. Those islands, or as we call them, the triangles, are NOT public property. The owners have approved those signs.  As of today we have new measures in place to try to catch this  — tall as one witness described her - person. If you see anyone removing signs, please let us know or call the police. This is a crime - it is considered stealing personal property.

This year our yard signs cost us, with the wires - a more than $6 a sign.

The amount of signs that have been stolen is creeping into the hundreds of dollars.

This is sad.

It is also a crime.

Signs are personal property. If you steal a sign, you are stealing personal property.

There are claims by the people behind this recall, that people on this side, the vote no side of this campaign, are also stealing signs.

I only know of constituents who have contacted me, who found signs in their yards that were not invited.

No one has “stolen” signs that we know of, but there seems to be wide reaching level of support that I am only just becoming aware of and I am asking that any who is against this recall who feels inclined to steal or damage signs belonging to the others side, please don’t.

Lots of great people have stepped forward with donations, some of whom I know have more important places they need to put this money. Out of respect for them, I am asking for decency from the other side: stop stealing signs.

We have added a level of security to several of our signs that we are changing from sign to sign daily and in some cases a couple of times a day.

We have already had interesting results that we will share after the election. Additionally, signs that were found on property where the owner’s of the homes found them placed w/out permission reveal some interesting handiwork that might explain where some of my signs, and Demetrius’s Atsalisis’s signs, are going.

If you have one of the other side’s signs because it was somewhere it shouldn’t be, please leave it out in public someplace, but get in touch with me first. We need you to take a close look.

If you would like a sign in your yard, we have a list and will be putting them out in the next few days as well as replacing signs that were stolen.

If you would like to help with the campaign, we still have a lot to do, so please get in touch.

I am very busy and come home to loads of messages each day, but I WILL get back to you.

Thanks for all of the support.

Janet Joakim
508-420-2153  janetjoakim@aol.com

(I had intended to give positions on this blog regarding the petition etc… but the reasons for this recall keep changing, despite what is on the petition, I am done posting and providing fodder for the unscrupulous. This campaign, along with my own family and work responsiblities, don’t allow enough hours in the day to post right now.)

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  1. I have a sign that had a bumper sticker promoting your recall attached to it using a piece from another sign. The other sign was from Mr. Atsalis. I will leave you my e-mail address by sending it to your e-mail listed above.

    Comment by Anonymous — October 25, 2008 #

  2. Recall organizers have been very careful to place signs only on authorized personal properties.

    If you are in posession of recall signs, it is likely because you or your husband, whom you claimed was in charge of signs, stole them.

    I found a big a pile of stickers from the Centerville Post Office and am passing them out.
    People are anxious to have them!

    Comment by Johnathan — October 26, 2008 #

  3. johnathan (if you are going to use a persona at least spell the name correctly!)

    We don’t steal signs. I know its hard to believe but we just don’t do that nor do we condone it.
    But making those accusations are a clever way to give yourselves permission to do the same to others.

    What is interesting is that the people who found signs on their own property have showed us that in order to expand the signs to include your stickers etc, other people’s campaign signs have been cut up and used as extenders.

    We will look into this legally after the campaign.

    I understand that a week ago saturday one of the postal workers in centerville found a stack of bumperstickers in the public area of the post office. This is illegal and they were removed. Ask the postmaster what the legal process is for posting anything in a post office and you will learn that ANY campaign literature of any kind is illegal. It is a federal building.

    But, no one is suprised at any of this behavior.

    Comment by JSJ — October 27, 2008 #

  4. Ms. Joakim, I am in possession of a sign that was placed on the property line between my house and my neighbors. When I removed it, the woman who was driving a maroon ford p-up told me that I was stealing her property. When I refused to give it back she said that “she was sorry and that she had placed it there in error.” This sign had an attached sign displaying a bumper sticker. When I pealed the sticker off, it was attached to one of your campaign signs. I made a mental note of the license plate of the truck. I will get that information to you. Good luck. You have my vote!

    Comment by Anonymous — October 27, 2008 #

  5. Johnathan -
    there is no one registered to vote in this precinct with that name in that spelling.

    Comment by JSJ — October 28, 2008 #

  6. Three signs found on private property have pieces of my signs attached to them under stickers etc…

    If anyone finds a sign on their property - (do not take them or steal them please!)- please don’t throw them away, please look at what is under the stickers.

    Comment by JSJ — October 28, 2008 #

  7. Congratulations Janet. We are proud of you for fighting and standing up for yourself! You prevailed and with tact, class & dignity. Good for you!

    Comment by Christine — October 31, 2008 #

  8. t - stop leaving message on this blog - they will remain moderated, and if you don’t stop i will take action

    Comment by JSJ — November 11, 2008 #

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