Signage overkill, if not also visual pollution?
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– News and commentary about Quincy from Quincy Quarry News. 

Quincy Suffering Massive Campaign Sign Trafficking Uptick.

Not only has summer semi-officially ended given the passing of Labor Day as well as given the impending start of a new school year, so giving rise to fall, the impending fall also includes a descent into darkness that is a campaign season for various local public offices.

To whit for those who have not been paying attention, the primary election is next Tuesday.

All wet, as usual …
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With this year’s primary election and resultant hitting the fan by the unlucky candidates who will not be making the cut to the general election in November fast approaching, such also signals the unsightly proliferation of campaign lawn signs by pandering incumbents and wannabe newcomers.

Reasonably adequate signage graphics notwithstanding, many campaign lawn signs are still only slightly less unsightly than an infestation of weeds in a lawn or what typically happens to many lawns during a summer dry spell.

Can be had at the right price …
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Even so, prominent as well as extensive displays of such signs has long been viewed by candidates as a show of strength for their respective candidacies, especially in neighborhoods where candidates believe they have strong support.

Perhaps is such true; then again, perhaps not.

For example, Quincy Quarry is aware of more than a few locals who have agreed to put signs in their yards so as to endeavor duck making a cash campaign donation and then vote for someone else come Election Day.

Even more amusing, however, are the arguable Freudian slips in the oh so ironic as well as often even more telling placements of signage.

That and how some signs are arguable shows of all but de facto ownership of a candidate by a lawn sign’s host.

So what if its posted on City property, it’s the Q …
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Further amusing is how candidates who really should know better further visually pollute Quincy with campaign signage in places where such signage is (officially, ed.) prohibited.

For example, on city property as well as which is within but steps of City Hall.

Then again, there is something said for candidates engaging in the many traditional local and and oh so curiously doings and especially arguable misdoings in the curious milieu that is the Q.

Among other things, things for Quincy Quarry to exposé.

Campaign Finance
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Case in point, in Massachusetts pay for play is not necessarily proscribed if at least one of the two sides of the grift knows how to effect the benefaction without any legal sanctions likely to be imposed.

Alternatively, cash leaves no trail.

Finally, however, and as is well-known in local election lore, key to seeing oneself elected to local office is to secure a strong as well as favorable turnout in Quincy’s long pivotal Mount Wollaston neighborhood, also unofficially known as Ward 7.

Getting out the vote!
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After all, no one digs up more votes than do the unfortunately all too common local elected officials and their minions.

Fortunately for long-suffering Quincy residents, Quincy Quarry is the only news media in the Greater Boston area with the stones to speak truth to both its every growing legions of loyal readers as well as to power.