POLITICAL SIGNS MAKE A BAD IMPRESSION

I've been taking a lot of long walks through town lately, which gives me a lot of time to think...and look at political signs.

Wouldn't it be great, I thought if even one candidate broke out of the mold and did something different?  What if, instead of posting signs all over the island, they printed their name on re-useable shopping bags and offered them for free at the grocery stores?

Instead of ending up in our waste stream, like all those signs, the bags would be used again and again to keep plastic bags OUT of our waste stream.  I am sure the public would be thrilled to vote for someone with that kind of vision.

I can think of a dozen other ways for political candidates to build awareness for themselves without cluttering the landscape.  It's not too late for all you true visionaries.  Take down your signs and set up a program that will show us that you REALLY care!  Just the absence of your name from the crowded fence lines I walk past every week will make me more inclined to vote for you!

Camille Armantrout

Makawao

September 15, 2004