{"id":1481,"date":"2008-09-28T00:46:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T04:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/09\/28\/creatively-vandalized-electoral-signs-part-i\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:23:33","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:23:33","slug":"creatively-vandalized-electoral-signs-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/09\/28\/creatively-vandalized-electoral-signs-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Creatively vandalized electoral signs (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smurfmatic\/2894295456\/\" title=\"Anne Lagac\u00e9 Dowson gets an &quot;artistic&quot; treatment by Cedric Sam, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3262\/2894295456_4731433bf5.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Anne Lagac\u00e9 Dowson gets an &quot;artistic&quot; treatment\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps because a by-election was planned for September 8th in Westmount\u2014Ville-Marie before it got canceled by the general election, &#8220;vandals&#8221; have had an extra month to get to work. For instance, it seems that the NDP&#8217;s Anne Lagac\u00e9-Dowson was a fairly popular target, especially because one of her sign configuration goes at street level. Some markings seen around were somewhat <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/smurfmatic\/2893456787\/\">less-flattering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, the Liberals&#8217; Marc Garneau, their star candidate in Westmount\u2014Ville-Marie (he was a former astronaut), only has one type of poster, almost invariably large and posted well out of reach of urban pranksters.<\/p>\n<p>While the integrity of election signs is protected by law, some people will unscrupulously hitchhike their brands on the electoral train&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smurfmatic\/2894302466\/\" title=\"Ski the East, Gilles by Cedric Sam, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3246\/2894302466_b4904730ac.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Ski the East, Gilles\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps because a by-election was planned for September 8th in Westmount\u2014Ville-Marie before it got canceled by the general election, &#8220;vandals&#8221; have had an extra month to get to work. For instance, it seems that the NDP&#8217;s Anne Lagac\u00e9-Dowson was a fairly popular target, especially because one of her sign configuration goes at street level. Some<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/09\/28\/creatively-vandalized-electoral-signs-part-i\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Creatively vandalized electoral signs (Part I)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5016,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7830,7839,7840],"tags":[2952,3085,48,87,3086,688,2957],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-neighbourhoods","category-politics","tag-anne-lagace-dowson","tag-astronaut","tag-downtown","tag-election-signs-affiches-electorales","tag-former-astronaut","tag-liberals","tag-marc-garneau"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Creatively vandalized electoral signs (Part I) - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/09\/28\/creatively-vandalized-electoral-signs-part-i\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Creatively vandalized electoral signs (Part I) - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Perhaps because a by-election was planned for September 8th in Westmount\u2014Ville-Marie before it got canceled by the general election, &#8220;vandals&#8221; have had an extra month to get to work. 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