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Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Village Council have decided not to tweak the municipal law regulating election signs .The local law imposes time limits, ” all campaign signs must be removed no later than 20 days after the General Election.” The time limit for the removal of political signs is the point of contention.
There are many court cases in New Jersey that have declared “temporal restrictions” regarding election signs unconstitutional: Boehm v. Borough of Franklin Lakes, 2001 (ordinance limiting display of political signs to no more than two weeks prior and two days after an election). Whitton v. City of Gladstone, (1995) (ordinance limiting display of political signs to no more than 30 days before an election and 7 days after an election). McCormack v. Township of Clinton, (1994) (limiting display of political signs to no more than 10 days before an event while allowing yard sale signs within 30 days of an event). Loftus v. Twp. of Lawrence Park, (1991) (completely banning display of all residential signs, including political signs, while allowing “for sale” and “garage sale” signs). All ordinances that were overturned by the courts.”
Both council persons Pamela Perron and Paul Vagianos said they would use taxpayer dollars for lawyers to argue a constitutional change. Mayor Knudsen countered she would rather just remove the time provision , especially given the likelihood of a loss in a court battle .
Councilwoman Pamela Perron was willing to use waste taxpayers dollars to fight “Free Speech” with a constitutional amendment yet was not willing to defend Ridgewood taxpayers voting rights with the school budget vote. Interesting the current sign ordinance came in response to candidate Evan Weitz posting his campaign signs in Village planters in the central business district.
The village council has decided not to remove an unconstitutional provision from their campaign signs ordinance risking unnecessary and time wasting lawsuits .
Taxpayers are now exposed to yet another potentially expensive and avoidable lawsuit. Thank you Village Council! The gift that keeps on giving.
The town really looks like shit with all these dumb signs.
I lived here all my life and they newbies bring their bad habits here.
We NEVER used to have signs of ANY sort.
To those of you with the “Josh” signs… where’s those lower taxes promised?
You still can’t deduct all your property taxes despite the same signs when he bought the last election
He’s NOT a problem solver.. hes a Pelosi puppet and always votes with here
RIdgewood went in the shitter when all the Democrats moved here
The worst signs are the Hate Doesn’t Live Here ones. Those scammers BLM are on this sign. The limousine libs lapped this one up.
BLM= buy large mansions with the money donated by suckers
interestingly after biden stole the election no more inner city riots
Perron is an idiot.
Here, Simplified that fer ya…
“The town really looks like shit
with all these dumb signs.Why would anyone want to leave up a sign after the election is over and the elected names announced? Worth fighting about, really? I’d say about two days should be the limit.
Agree with previous post: for many decades NO SUCH SIGNS WERE ALLOWED in town, including For Sale. Better that way. Now looks dreadful and frankly creates an unnecessary expense and effort for candidates, not to mention the landfill fodder that results.
As for the photo of a sign in a downtown flowerpot, it should be removed immediately and thrown away.
“Why would anyone want to leave up a sign after the election is over and the elected names announced? ”
When you think it’s a worthwhile goal to emulate Hudson county.
Another tempest in a teapot – does this REALLY matter?
Just realized from the date on the Weitz sign means it was from his first, but not his last, losing bid for Council.
Candidate Winograd worked hard to move our council elections from their age-old mid-May date to the general election in November. While touting the terrific benefits of doing this (none), did she make it clear that it would (whoops, tiny side effect) deprive residents of the longtime right to vote on the proposed school budget? No, and that’s what happened. (The school budget must be known sooner than at the end of the year.) Want her on the Village Council?
The signs for candidates beyond Ridgewood limits are just trash. As an active trader, how does Josh have time to serve his constituents? The Clinton-era knock off really needs to go. Too long at the party.
“As an active trader, how does Josh have time to serve his constituents? ”
All he has to do it vote with Nancy (remotely still allowed) and determine the next issue du jour so he can show up and get his photo taken standing for or against whatever it is.
Incredible Peron and Vagianos would waste our tax dollars on fighting signs. Idiots the both. Now the idiots wrota letter to editor telling us to vote for their buddies. Haven’t seen this bs since aronsohn. Let’s not go back to thone ugly days. Looks like it could happen. I hope not. Wake up people.