Last night, all of Pete Ashdown's campaign signs in the Salt Lake Foothill area, including a ten foot banner, mysteriously disappeared.
How do you describe the theft of a candidate's signs (which, by the way, were all on private property)?
"Predictable?" Certainly, and all the more disgusting for that.
"Juvenile?" Oh, yes.
How about "criminal?"
Unfortunately, when the candidate is a Democrat in Utah, you could also describe it as "politics as usual." The same thing happened in several areas two years ago with Scott Matheson's gubernatorial campaign signs, and it's happened in other races before and since.
Pete is offering a $500 reward "to anyone who can get video or a picture of an identifiable individual removing or vandalizing any Democrat’s sign located on private property." Pull out your webcams, folks.
Update: Rob Miller has offered an additional $500.
Pete Ashdown, politics, Utah
