From Lisa: I am a resident of Ocean Grove and have been for about 13 years. Over the last six months or so I have done a lot of political organizing and have worked very hard to become part of the process. It has warmed my heart to see a myriad collection of political signs on the median strip on Broadway in Ocean Grove over the last week or so all coexisting peacefully – nobody defacing or stealing each other’s signs.
This morning as I drove down the street I was shocked to see that every single sign has been removed -from one end of Broadway down to the other they were all gone. Per our committee person Carol Rizzo there is a municipal ordinance that not only permits those signs, it actually criminalizes removal of them.
I would appreciate any insight you could give into who might have done this, as it does not seem to be motivated by any political persuasion and it was most certainly not done by the public works department because the grass has been mowed already. Thank you very much.
Best,
Lisa
Lisa Iannucci
Editor’s note: Lisa, I do not know who took those signs.
The Township Committee has two openings for election day, but only the incumbents are running: two hopelessly entrenched Democrats named Williams and Brantley who will win by default. Some of those signs are probably theirs. The Republican Granucci is still on the ballot, but he has no money and no signs to steal.
More about him later.
This sign is located just outside the gates of Ocean Grove—- Main Avenue. Blogfinger photo © These two incumbents will continue their secretive, monopolistic anti-Ocean Grove practices as Neptune Township Committeemen.
Why do they put up signs in the first place? The signs for those two contain no useful information, so nothing lost there. So why care if their signs are gone from Broadway?
Well, Lisa does care because she is a patriot, and she is correct to be upset.
I recall one May when I placed fliers on some Main Avenue poles for our Town-Wide Yard Sale. I did so because those poles were already occupied by unmolested pink ribbons.
The next day our fliers were gone, but not the pink ribbons. I was told that they were removed by the cleaning crew hired by the Chamber of Commercials. This was a purposeful targeting of our fliers and was offensive. The issue of posting notices in town is chaotic because the ordinance is not consistently enforced.
However, the political signs on Broadway should have been OK because they were posted on metal frames stuck in the ground.
It is freedom of speech which is being assaulted on Broadway, and Lisa is justified in wanting to know who did it.
STRAIGHT NO CHASER:
