Sign, sign everywhere a sign
I had better get back to work, my vacation spent, my money gone, my tan, such as it is, in a perpetual state of fading.
The yard signs have returned, urging us in various shades of red, white, and blue to do our civic duty. Oh yeah, and not be stupid. Vote for …
A few years ago Ellen Totzke, then a candidate for County Attorney had a big pink sign on Harrison. How refreshing. You don’t see a lot of pastels or day-glo in political signs.
They are about as bland as the messages we hear on television and radio. If I hear one more candidate drop “Nebraska values” into moody music and down-home looking folks, I think I’m going to scream. They are always telling us to vote for them because they traffic in Nebraska values, but they never tell us what those values are. Or how they might be different than Iowa values or Colorado values or property values.
Here’s a suggestion for a yard sign — in bright lime green with lemon accents: “Vote for me. I do not lie.”
Of course these days we would also have to list all the candidates that do lie and then we’d have a fight and deal for a reality show on Fox: “Celebrity Lying,” in which a movie star is matched with a local candidate in battle of honesty and ethics.
Right after “Cooking (or is it dancing?) with the Stars.”
I think the forums and debates are great. Anybody who wants to know where somebody stands has a chance to find out. And anybody who wants to put a sign in a yard with confidence can do so … in limited colors schemes, however.