Letter: Signage pollution should be addressed

Monday, Oct. 18, 1999 | 9:26 a.m.

This visual pollution is caused by signs, many showing giant faces of lawyers leering down at you from lofty perches.

This phenomenon, like smog caused by an inversion, proliferates severalfold when a lawyer chooses to run for public office. In this case there are more billboards proclaiming the lawyer-candidate's goodness as well as a proliferation of signs at every principal intersection in the valley to attract the attention of the passing motorist and pedestrian.

Maybe all future candidates can forgo this pre-election signage and save millions of campaign dollars and save the public the attendant visual and trash pollution insults. Most voters do not care what the candidate looks like anyway.

As the farmer said when his manure wagon was running out of control downhill: "This stuff has got to stop!" It is an imposition and insult to the public. It benefits very few. It makes Las Vegas/Nevada look like hell.

The Clark County Commission and Las Vegas City Council are called upon to put an end to this stuff. The mayor has said that one of his goals is to beautify the city; let's see him take the lead on this one.

Let him start with the leering signs and then put a moratorium on new billboards in the city.

ANN MC FEE

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