Sign, sign, everywhere a sign

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To the Editor:

In reference to your article “Here come the political signs,” all I have to say is, it’s amazing there are no regulations on the books in the Town of Hempstead regarding political signs on public property.

Block the view of traffic at intersections? Sure, why not?

Create eyesores on every corner? Of course. How else will folks remember our names?

Plaster those placards on every parcel of abandoned, weed-strewn, property? You bet! What better reminder to residents that we live in a sewer, and, to paraphrase Town Councilman Tony Santino, “enjoy paying more” for the privilege?

Signs on every utility pole, and no law to limit, curtail or ever remove? This, in the land of Kate Murray, “the law-and-order candidate” (yes, she watches the show on TV), whose own political signs proclaim, “Cutting Taxes. Fighting Crime”? I will leave aside the fact that Kate & Co. raised those town-general purposes taxes in 2015 by 30 percent. Fighting crime? When in the name of Dillinger has Kate Murray ever fought anything resembling crime? Not those illegal basement apartments. Not the harboring of sex offenders in local no-tell motels. And certainly not the barrage of signs that seek only to perpetuate the existence of a government that is far more interested in its own continued reign in perpetuity than in the good and welfare of its citizens.

Tony Santino, now running to replace Kate Murray as town supervisor (are there no clones?), has a TV spot that opens with the line, “If it ain’t broke...” Tony, Kate, it’s broke. It’s been broke for more than 100 years, thanks to the myopic vision of those, too long entrenched in Town Hall, who have hoarded power, and the spoils that go along with it, for themselves.

Albert Einstein once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result. Hmm. Doesn’t that go for sending the same people to public office again and again?

As for those political placards that litter the landscape, frankly, I am inclined to vote for the candidates with the fewest signs. How about you?

Seth Bykofsky

West Hempstead