Handmade-sign guy in dust up with Chelsea city councilor

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Damn Matt! (go Matt)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_LNUZL2FRM

I always enjoyed the Doug Bennett shanannigans, but after looking at a few of his videos, I think its clear that he is somewhere on the autism spectrum and it probably isn't that fun or funny to make fun of the guy.

I've actually dealt with many people on the spectrum who have some sort of obsession with political signs, banners and politics in general. They aren't criminal, but if they go unchecked, it can get a little out of control like I think Doug is now.

I am just sick of seeing his signs over and over again on the same lots that he does not have permission to put them in. Then he loses and the signs fall into the property and sit there until someone (not his campaign) comes to collect them a year later. Then a new sign pops up.

It is proper campaign etiquette to ask for permission to put up signs and then ideally to take them down after unless the owner (who you got permission from) has informed you they would take care of it. In two of these cases the land is under construction of some type so I am in contact with them for other things and one of the developers asked me about the ratty sign.

In Chelsea we are used to politicians swooping in when they need votes, that is normal in most places. The difference is most campaigns respect landowners and work with locals who help make sure they do not insult anyone. Everyone knows that these locations did not give him permission to put the signs up. There is one location in the city that I know gave him permission to put it up that I know of...

Mr. Bennett takes it as an affront that people across Suffolk County get mad about his signs but they just want respect. We are not lands to be conquered by the arbitrary planting of a sign in locations that are seemingly vacant. We were all here before your campaign started and we will be here after the campaign ends.

There's a vacant lot on West 5th St in Southie that has progressed like this, in the span of a month or so:

Handmade Doug Bennett signs
Professionally-made Steve Murphy signs
Empty
Handmade Doug Bennett signs

Bennett is a clown
His green signs are so ugly
He will never win

I'm blocked from seeing Doug's tweets. Who knew?

I'm wearing that as a badge of honor.

This tweet is 104 characters

Don't know what ur prob is, but demographics in your ward favor Hispanic pop. I will knock u out by runnin a candidate against u

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Don't know what your problem is but demographics in your ward favor Hispanic pop. I will knock you out by running a candidate against you.

I'm going to leave this here without comment

your welcome.

A couple of years ago (when he was running for sheriff?) I got fed up looking at these green signs all over Dorchester. On a Sunday morning, my wife and I took her little car and drove around the neighborhood picking up as many signs as we could from neglected properties. After a couple of hours of hard work, we filled up the back of the car, and strapped the largest ones to unsafe height on the car's roof. I kept the nicest board for scrap plywood (still have a few of them in my basement) and put the rest to the curb on trash day. To our dismay, a couple of weeks later most of the signs had reappeared in the same places! Doug, I surrender; this is the one political battle you've won. Since then I only periodically remove the signs within a block from my house.