


A couple major offenders in the Scottsdale and Paradise Valley area are Rodney Glassman and Jerry Bien-Willner. That said, we are constantly disappointed by the lack of responsibility. Unwinding a campaign is always much less a priority than getting one moving. It is much easier to go on a vacation, pout, or simply move on with your life. And to be fair, this is understandable after pouring your life into an endeavor and it doesn’t go your way, the last thing you want to do is work that reminds you of this loss. Year after year however, we see signs up long past this deadline. Ergo, the deadline for primary election losers to collect their signs is this Wednesday. Well, what is their obligation? Arizona law spells it out fairly concretely: According to ARS 16-1019, where it says that signage rules apply during “the period commencing seventy-one days before a primary election and ending fifteen days after the general election, except that for a sign for a candidate in a primary election who does not advance to the general election, the period ends fifteen days after the primary election”.
#Signs signs everywhere signs free
For half a year every high-traffic corner in the county turns into an arms race to see who can get the best placement, and as a result as many as a dozen signs crowd out every free square foot of space.īut now that the first 2022 election is done and gone with many candidates having been defeated (or some assured a win), why do so many campaigns keep their signs up? Hypothetically, over half of campaign signs should be gone. Political street signs are one of the most prevalent forms of political advertising, and simultaneously one of the most obnoxious.
