The Politics of Garbage -- THE RESULTS ARE IN (A DUMPSTER)!

 

The first-place award for the local candidate with the most wasteful and nonsensical of all the wasteful and nonsensical visual pollution political lawn signs that we were so fortunate to recently be distracted and bombarded by (and, in some areas, still are!) has got to go to Margaret Morris. 

Morris "ran" for Common Council President unopposed!  No one ran against her; she was in no race to speak of!  But the signs were made, bought and displayed.  Why would Morris have felt the need to try to convince anyone to vote for her by displaying silly disposable plastic signs around town -- even in public parks -- that wind up in a landfill somewhere far away a month or two later if all she needed to "win" the non-existent Council President race was her own vote?  Is it possible that Morris' own disposable plastic signs were her means of reminding herself to vote for herself?  

Starting next year, will Morris manage the council and the city equally wastefully and nonsensically?  We shall see.

Behind Morris, the candidate coming in second place for the Shameful Displays of Visual Pollution and Wa$te By Means Of Disposable Plastic Political Signs Ultimately Headed To A Landfill Award has got to go to Jackie Salvatore for her sheer volume of signs.  Unlike Morris, though, Salvatore did have an opponent, did have a race to win.  But still, did her oodles of yellow disposable plastic signs change anyone's mind?!  

And last but certainly not least, the 3rd place award goes to our soon-to-be disposed mayor, Kamal Johnson.  Just because.  

KJ didn't run in the general election as a candidate in the Working Families Party because he wanted to.  Rather, after being defeated in the Democratic primary, switching parties was his only option to try to keep his $75,000 job on the second floor of Hudson City Hall that he has nothing to show for after nearly 6 years in office other than recent necessary and last-minute drastic budget cuts to departments to meet next year's budget, a city checking account that is maxed out, and higher property taxes soon on the way yet again (after he has left City Hall, of course).  Kamal's obscene and silly disposable plastic signs failed him this time, thank goodness, and off to a landfill they are headed along with everyone else's obscene and useless displays of waste, disposability and vanity.

Well, at least most of them are on their way...

How much do these things vile things cost
to purchase? How much do they cost society?