Sign Language

Yet another reason why driving on Route 1 is so frustrating:

After more than a month of what many in District 21 considered false advertising, newly-anointed Republican Sen. John Giannetti replaced many of his Democratic campaign signs with an up-to-date batch this week.

The replacement comes after Derek Walker, executive director of the Maryland Democratic Committee, filed a formal complaint to the State Board of Elections, charging that keeping the Democratic signs up was "a deliberate attempt to mislead voters and avoid informing the public of his party affiliation," according to submitted documents.

Walker said Giannetti has violated Election Law 13-401, a law disputed in a 1986 case, Snyder v. Glusing, in which Republican literature listed candidates who were not the Republican nominees.

"This is just another example of Giannetti's lack of integrity," Walker said.

Giannetti is certainly taking his sweet time replacing the signs. In College Park, the old Democratic signs still outnumber the new ones, which leave out any party affiliation as well as the color photo of him. For someone whose blog used to be virtually all about the aesthetics and politics of signs, you would think he'd be more diligent about something like this.

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