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A message for Expressway drivers
By adamg on Sat, 11/02/2024 - 11:42am
Roving UHub photographer Vivian Girard couldn't help but notice this electronic billboard beside the IBEW Local 103 hall as he took his morning walk through Clam Point in Dorchester, near the Southeast Expressway.
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I agree...
but why is anyone wasting money on this in this state where the result is a foregone conclusion?
Not really wasting much money
It's the IBEW's billboard, so it's not like they're paying to put the message up there.
Out-of-Towners ?
That is part of I93 after all
I'd guess it's targeted at
I'd guess it's targeted at people commuting in from New Hampshire.
Lots of people from NH cross
Lots of people from NH cross our border for work and NH is a swing state.
That part of the highway is
That part of the highway is south of downtown, so not a lot of people commute from New Hampshire through that area, although I suppose some people commute from New Hampshire to some office park on the South Shore.
IBEW owns the billboard
IBEW owns the billboard themselves, and uses it to promote candidates and union-related issues. (I don't think they ever sell it out for commercial ads, but I don't drive so I rarely get the Expressway view of it.) Also, since they're an electrical workers union having a digital billboard presumably is used as showy demo of things they can work on.
Scab is generous
He's a festering sore aiming for complete organ failure of democracy.
He should be arrested for terroristic threats for those Cheney comments. Yikes!
Scab is pertinent
For some people, calling him a scab is more impactful than calling him a fascist, even if both are true.
I guess
a union card didn't come with his trash collector cosplay set.
Trump is a faker. I agree with the message
I agree with the message and stand with unions, but those LED billboards are an eyesore and a hazard. On whose watch was it that we allowed these intrusive LED boards to blight our skyline? I’m glad it’s owned by a union and not subject to the monopolist ClearChannel, (a.k.a iHeartmedia, which all lovers of democracy should consider boycotting,) but it ain’t the NJ Turnpike (no offense.)
How is it that LED billboards
How is it that LED billboards are an eyesore?
This isn't one of the ones that's so entirely too bright that it's disruptive, or too close to other buildings.
,..and a hazard? How do you figure that?
Uninformed America
I do wonder about folks that base their vote off of a billboard or campaign ads on TV. Debates are about as useless also. To be an informed voter you have to put the work in. It's part of being a good citizen.
idk
i don't think people base their votes on a billboard any more than they base where they eat their dinner off of a taco bell ad.
Some people only make up
Some people only make up their minds at the last minute, weird as that may seem to us.
Sometimes the decision isn't which candidate to vote for, but whether to vote at all. After Trump's MSG rally, people were saying things like "my uncle was going to vote for Trump, and I was going to stay home, but now the whole family is voting for Harris."
Get-out-the-vote isn't just going door to door and making phone calls, it's also billboards and targeted ads on websites.