A Stoney Creek council candidate says if she's elected, she'll push to ban election signs.
Nancy Fiorentino of Ward 9 says signs are expensive and unsightly, and she wants to see them abolished.
"Election signs are costly to produce, clutter our neighbourhoods, are not environmentally friendly, can be hazardous depending on their placement," she said in a media release Wednesday.
And while the city sign bylaw says they can only be displayed on private property, she said, it's too hard for city staff to enforce. It leads "some candidates to take advantage of this."
Fiorentino is running against eight others for the seat previously occupied by Brad Clark, who is running for mayor. She's up against Lee Austin, Doug Conley, Cam Galindo, Tone Marrone, Geraldine McMullen, Marie Robbins, Christopher Rosser and Frank Rukavina.
Banning signs would force candidates to find other ways to communicate with voters, she said.
Other candidates in her race, she said, are placing signs illegally. She particularly took aim at Robbins, whose signs "have littered the ward in public places."
Robbins responded with an email statement in defense of signs.
"Election signs communicate who is running and what they stand for, which voters have every right to know," she said, adding that she's also running on stricter campaign fundraising rules.
Galindo is also a sign fan. Signs encourage voters to research the candidates on their own, he said.
"But if Nancy truly believes her own statement, she can practice what she preaches by removing her campaign signs," he said.
"Without lawn signs, society becomes even more politically illiterate."
Rosser wasn't a fan of Fiorentino's plan either. It would "stifle the rights of private property owners who wish to support their local candidate," he said.
They're not just about campaigns, he said, but a way for constituents to "show support for their candidate of choice."
Signs, McMullen said, are a show of voter support, not "a show of urgency or desperation from a candidate. I feel it is inappropriate for a candidate to propose changes to rules and bylaws without first consulting with the public."
Tone Marrone said signs are a lot of work to put up and take down. "That might be why (Fiorentino) has a problem. They're not cheap either."
But the plan had a fan in Austin.
"Let's face it. There are many voters that base their selection on who they see has the most signs," he said.
They have little to do with aptitude, he said, and "more to do with their available budget."
"A ban on election signs would eliminate the litter created by signs that are blown down by the wind, vandalized, or simply not collected after the election is complete."
Every time a candidate violates the sign bylaw, he added, they should have a vote subtracted from their final count.
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