Letter to the Editor

I answered my door the other day to a pleasant gentleman trying to hand me a political pamphlet… at the end of my tirade about the complete waste of money poured into such garbage, I apologized. He was very kind and said he’d bring it up to the powers that be.

Every election we the public must endure our streets being littered with political propaganda to the point of nausea and people knocking on our doors trying to give us junk mail. Does anyone actually read them? Does anyone allow their vote to be swayed because one party has more signs running down the strip (pictured above) than the other party? If all of this signage and “literature”…I use that term loosely…were to disappear, would we the public forget there is an election?

At a time when there are kids at school being fed lunch provided by the Salvation Army, our hospital is continuously fundraising in an attempt to bring our community some very important medical equipment, we have homeless roaming the streets and never enough money to accomplish building a new school etc. The list goes on and on and yet the very people who are in charge of all of these issues in one way or another, spend who knows how much money on a bunch of wasteful signage and pamphlets!

This practice should be banned and the funds used in a more productive manner. And while I’m on the subject, how about stopping all of the outrageously childish radio ads that bash the other party! This is such a joke and a sad statement about the way our world is now, and these are our leaders acting like a goddamn school yard bully picking on the other party… do you not have enough good to say about your own party that you can’t fill a 30 second commercial?

Well, I need to get back to work so that’s all the time I have for this little rant but I know I am far from the only one who is sick of looking and listening to it.

Debbie Elliott,

Cranbrook

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