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Chitaku
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Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 11:37 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Has anyone seen the Devos billboard by Slows? it is hillarious! I don't have a pic it says

Vote for Devil, enough is enough vote for satan
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Mayor_sekou
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 12:57 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

People voted for bush so I dont see what the big deal is.
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Pam
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:39 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

There is a pic in the Elections Mega Thread.
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Cambrian
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 3:01 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I sent that pic to my neo con buddies, they are turning purple with anger right now. Whew! I needed that!
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Gdub
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 3:08 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I would have thought the DeVil's goons would have done something about that by now, since it's been like that for about five days. Of course, if they put up a new sign it won't be long before it faces a similar "creative refinishing" via paint. Matty's people responded in less than a day when the MCS was hit with a couple dozen blue sheets of fabric a few months ago.
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Stecks77
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 3:25 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

devos billboard
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Jams
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 3:30 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


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I would have thought the DeVil's goons would have done something about that by now, since it's been like that for about five days.




You actually expect them to come into DETROIT?
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Karl
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 3:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Looks like the desperate actions of losers.
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Toledolaw05
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 3:50 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

are these the same goons who go around defacing other property in detroit with spray paint - time to throw em in jail
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Cambrian
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:03 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Those guys that spray paint "Money" on abandoned buildings? That is offensive, like seeing a scad of flies whittling a carcass down. DeVos's sign getting defaced however is more a funny social commentary.
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Eastsidedog
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:06 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

:-)
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Gdub
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:07 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Actually, Karl, they probably did it for fun, something you don't seem capable of experiencing very often. And it's a laudable action by people who don't want their neighborhood invaded by offensive billboard messages. And, since it's actually been in it's current state for over a week and will probably remain as is for at least the near future (or until election day), I'd say the perpetrators are actually the winners.
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Eastsidedog
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:07 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"I am the DeVil and I approve this message."
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Supersport
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:12 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Typical Liberal vandalism, not surprised at all to be honest.
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Chitaku
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:13 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Devil's got a fine daughter. Glad him and Douchard like exploiting their pretty conservative daughters to sucker in those male votes
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Detroitstar
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:16 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Chitaku, I was just going to point that out. But seriously, what idiot thinks that putting his daughter on tv will steal my vote...even if I am a young male that finds her very attractive?
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Chitaku
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:19 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

there are idiots out there that buy into it. Ohooh hot daughter i;m voting for him!
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Detroitstar
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:22 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

If it was anyone else I might consider it, but the thought of him running Michigan just scares me.
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Crawford
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:22 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Isn't this billboard a little unfair to Satan? Is the devil really that evil? Even he wouldn't pimp out his daughter.
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Solarflare
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:24 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I don't think it's a stretch to expect the "I ain't votin' fer no woman" people to cast a hot-daughter vote.
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Chitaku
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:25 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

man i bet melissa devos is a hot party girl. rebelling against dad.
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Sticks
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:25 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hurray for Ad-Jamming!
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Psewick
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:29 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Oh, it'll be up for awhile. Not far from this billboard, a sign still stands which reads:

VOTE HOFFA '98: RESTORE THE PRIDE
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Bussey
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:31 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

where can i get a pic of satans daughter?
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Toledolaw05
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:32 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"DeVos's sign getting defaced however is more a funny social commentary."

just as funny as ur buddies who go around breaking into buildings to deface them while they take pictures to prove they are cool. they are all a bunch of imature criminals who should be arrested and thrown in jail fo ra few days. i didn't know being a criminal was considered funny. I guess to u it is.
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Wilus1mj
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:34 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Well as Homer Simpson says...it's funny 'cause it's truuuuuuue.
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Toledolaw05
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:39 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

no wonder so many buildings in detroit get taged. people like u think it is funny to trash things. u have no respect for other peoples property
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Crawford
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:44 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Toldeolaw, you're just cranky cause you're a conservative and in law school.

Detroit doesn't really have a graffiti problem. Have you been to Madrid, Rome or Berlin? Pretty much every square inch of the older Berlin subway stations are covered with graffiti, yet there's no sense of lawlessness or disorder.

I would like to see MORE graffiti in Detroit, provided it's either loosely political or artisitc.
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Detroitnerd
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:49 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Please don't speak phreak on the board.
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Toledolaw05
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:52 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Crawford,

lets start then by painting some graffiti on the houses ur mom is selling. I am sure that neither she nor the homeowners will care provided its either loosely political or artisitc. It will probablly even sell the house faster and ur mom will thank us for our work of art.
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Stecks77
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 4:56 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'm a democrat and if this was a Jenny billboard I'd be laughing just as hard.

I'm sick of political ads whoever it is.
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Crawford
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Apples and oranges, T-law. Visible grafitti would be a hinderance in Bham/Bloomfield, but it wouldn't have an effect either way in an urban community. Some of the most expensive urban neighborhoods on the planet are covered with scrawls.

Many things that are considered nuisances in a place like Bloomfield (pedestrians, art, vibrancy, diversity) are amenities in an urban setting.
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Detroitnerd
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 5:03 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Anyway, I bet this defacing even offended some satanists.
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Bussey
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 5:20 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I have to concur with those who support this recent defamation. The artistic expression of opinions through the medium of graffiti is a wonderful compliment to otherwise banal and sterile urban architecture.

While one may feel that this particular method of conveying ones personal rhetoric is jejune and puerile, not all of us have at our disposal the superfluous amounts of money that some do.

Given the dearth of personality that has been exuded by the DeVos campaign so far I find this sign to be neither flip nor glib but actually quite in line with his actual demeanor.

I pine for the day when trite public expressions such as these aren't taken so seriously by anal retentive pricks who obviously don't give a fuck about this city or our state since their only concern - in a city that has lost over a million residents and has many , many, many other and more important examples of public degredation and blight - is a political banner supporting a candidate who if elected will not give a damn about the fate of this city and henceforth the rest of the state.


GRANHOLM IN 06!!
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Jams
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 5:21 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


quote:

Many things that are considered nuisances in a place like Bloomfield (pedestrians, art, vibrancy, diversity) are amenities in an urban setting.




Please post your and your Mom's addresses, I'm sure there are more than a few of us that would be happy to add "amenities" to your residencies.

We'll even let you pick the color scheme.
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Hysteria
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 5:26 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Dick DeVos reminds me of Sam Neill as Damien on the Omen III movie poster -

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Jimaz
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 5:27 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I admit I thought it was funny but someone needs to point out that defacing political signs can sometimes backfire against the other candidate. I doubt it will in this case though.
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Crawford
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 5:31 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Too late, Jams. I live in Bushwick, Brooklyn. My building has tons of exterior graffiti.
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Barnesfoto
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 5:40 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The conservocrites have blanketed our city with their billboards, kind of like saying "haha, we have money, f-you!" And while the execution may be a little primitive, I don't find the results any more unpleasant visually than the actual message.
Here's to guerilla public service!
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Toledolaw05
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 5:56 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

all these liberals are saying it is ok to deface property - go back in any old posts on this site (here are a few) and 99% of them bash the people destroying property in detroit.

Skateboarder Nuisance?
Graffiti Revisited
UA Graffiti Artist on WDET
Urban exploration destruction

yet when it comes to something they agree with politically, it is ok to destroy personal property
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Detroit_stylin
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 6:08 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

F:\devos.jpg
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Gildas
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 6:17 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

And people whine that Devos, if elected won't help Detroit enough. I'm still trying to figure out what Granholm has done for our city, or why she has not chewed out the "Big Three" for outsourcing thousands of jobs.

I guess is shows two things, for her its all about the image and the vote, not results and she has no clue about how business is done today, mush to the dismay of our state.

If Devos is elected, I hope he rewards those areas that voted for him (as he should) and then tells Detroit (myself included) to go to hell, because we're obviously happy with things the way they are, because we're idiots.
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Gargoyle
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 6:18 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Toledolaw, are you equating this billboard with defaced buildings in Detroit? Please, come up out of those law books for a breath of air. Your comparison fails to meet the test of logic.
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Bussey
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 6:33 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

amen brother
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Detroitbill
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Hmm the question was what has Granholm done for the city..
well , she continually fights for bills and amendments advocating rights for the poor,(Republicans consistantly fight her on all of these) supports non discrimination rights for all people, encouraged industrial tax abatement zones for developing industries, initiated the "cool city" grant program encouraging development in various urban areas when no one else will loan money.
( which includes Detroit and many other Michigan cities)- this incidentally is something DeVos says he will eliminate immediately.
She has consistanly talked up "Detroit" internationally and nationally whether it be on job hunting trips or adressing conferences throughout the country, I cant find one instance where you have seen Dick DeVos go out of his way in his career to help Detroit, he generally has directed his energy to the improvement of his own fortune or the west side of the state or a evangelical agenda.
As for "chewing out" the Big Three for outsourcing I dont imagine any governor of this state is in a position to control the mind and management of major world wide corporations. "Chewing them out" in the business world is probably a suicide attempt for any politician in Michigan as the mega corporations will either downscale more or have frosty relationships with the Board of Governors from whom they need to generate jobs... You need to be savy ,,, if you have watched a debate you would see the Governor is far better at speaking than her candidate. She realizes being a governor involves not only business expertise but balancing the social needs of your state.
There is no way DeVos will concentrate on Detroits needs, whether it be social or economic, why should he , his base is miles away,,,
Look at Granholms behavior, she has consistently done her best given the current situation and is constanly fighting Republican controlled houses for progress for any average Michigander .. The economic turmoil presently is not a issue you can blame on the governor unless she can control the world economic climate, Its actually quite amazing the city of Detroit is prospering downtown which would indicate someone (whether it be political or layperson or a combination of both) is doing something right.
If you could point to any government at fault,it would be in the direction of federal decisions. They do have world impact.
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Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 11:54 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I don't think either of them are worth much. Both political parties really have nothing to offer the average working stiff these days. You will find out in a hurry how little things will change once the the Dems take over. All you will get them them is alot of "feel good" talk.
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Barnesfoto
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 12:39 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

feel good talk, uncle?
do you mean like "mission accomplished"?
or do you mean "The insurgency is in its' final throes"?
or do you mean "We're an empire now and we create our own reality"?

Even if we ignore the shady background and criminal convictions of the Amway family, The DeVos/Amway team does not even know what our skyline looks like, as evidenced by their printing of brochures with flopped Detroit photos!
(Or has Rencen moved over to the west side of downtown since I last was there?)
For any Detroiter to expect anything of these people is profoundly naive...
As for the outrage over tagged billboards, well, what are billboards but a legalized form of tagging anyway?
Much graffitti "art" is simply the personal branding ("tag") of the "artist", painted over and over again. i.e. Turdle. Many find it, at the very least, annoying.
Most of what appears on billboards is simply the "tagging" of products (i.e. Preparation H, Martell Brandy, The party of war criminals, hypocrites and corporate fraudsters.
The tagger does not reimburse the property owner for his/her branding, and is therefore a "criminal" even when his/her art is pleasing to some in the community.
The "advertiser" or "legal tagger" reimburses a media giant, who reimburses the property owner, but corporate tagging is seldom pleasing, and often is actually offensive to the community.
Which is worse?
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Mayor_sekou
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Where is that "VOTE HOFFA '98: RESTORE THE PRIDE" ad at? I havent seen it in a while I am really suprised it still stands.

If I were an uninformed voter I wouldnt vote for Devos on priciple because his first name is Dick. Who the hell has dick as thier first name honestly??
(Except for another man who is in politics currently who just might infact be Satan.)

GO TIGERS!!!
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 5:37 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"hot daughter"

Ummm....Look closer, its like a woman with Dicks face ! Eeeeeeeeeeeeew.

Hey well..whatever youre into, thats cool.

I guess.
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Stecks77
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 8:17 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

This billboard may determine the outcome of the election!

Quote*

"Where is that "VOTE HOFFA '98: RESTORE THE PRIDE" ad at?"

There is one located on Rosa Parks just north of 75 on the corner lot of an abandoned gas station.
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 8:46 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


quote:

This billboard may determine the outcome of the election!




Yeah right. Detroit isn't even a blip on the radar map during this election, which is sad, considering affirmative action is at stake. Without Puff Daddy telling today's youth to go out and "Rock the Vote," they could really care less.

...tellin' it like it 'tis.
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Gannon
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 9:14 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

That's one too many its, or ts, or apostrophes.
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Supersport
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 9:37 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It's Supersport-bonics, the rules are flexible.
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Gannon
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<<< wishin' those ol' St. Al's nuns used flexible rules back in the day.


If ONLY I had documented Sister Barbara Ann's personality change between 3rd and 5th grades better...
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 10:57 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


quote:

are saying it is ok to deface property




Toledo, I think the major thing your missing here is that a billboard advertisement is temporary, almost by definition. You think any of them, for any canidate are going be around long after november 7th? That's a far cry from tagging/altering/vandalising a century old structure.
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Gildas
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 11:18 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I think I get it, the duration of a sign or building indicates its degree of protection under the law.

Thats good to know, because I always wanted to destroy the tents they put up for the various festivals in the city and you know, tents for a festival are temporary, almost by defination.

I don't think the tents are up after the festival, say Winter Blast for instance.
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Rjk
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 11:23 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

So is it wrong to key someones car, but alright to run your key over their bycycle? Is it alright for someone to tare down my Christmas display because they don't like it and it's only temporary anyways? Why does it matter how much something is worth or how old it is? The Devos campaign paid for that billboard and it was defaced by someone who if they were caught in the act would be arrested.

Would it be alright for someone to go through neighborhoods at night and steal signs that people choose to place on their front lawn supporting Devos or Granholm for that matter?

Some of the responses on this thread remind me of how a lot of people are all for free speech as long as it's something they agree with. Don't spray paint something in a building that been abandoned for years or decades (That I agree with), but if you want to deface a billboard that someone paid for, have at it? I think the term is moral relativism.
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Gravitymachine
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 11:47 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

take em all! all the signs, billboards, banners, lawn signs, electronic tickers....man that would be the greatest thing ever, no advertisements as far as the eye could see!

what's the next best thing than no advertisements? advertisements that work against the thing being advertised.

(Message edited by gravitymachine on October 25, 2006)
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Bussey
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If anything this sign indicates just how bad the state of Detroit has gotten since a person is able to climb a 30ft tall billboard, that is lighted, and vandalize it at will. This and the combination of the "hoffa in 98" billboard are very indicative of how little attention is paid to, spend on, or conducted in Detroit.

Regardless of who is Governor.
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Stecks77
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Supersport: I was just being sarcastic about the billboard determining the outcome of the election.
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 1:42 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Here is a link to the commercial with DeVos' daughter. http://www.devosforgovernor.co m/Multimedia/MMPlayer_Video.as px?ID=97&TypeID=1

(Message edited by nainrouge on October 25, 2006)
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Quinn
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 1:53 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

What's with the copy on that commercial? "Nobody pulls his chain?" Geesh. Then they show her with her arms around him, then she says, "Well almost nobody..."

The mental images that conjurs are so disturbing.

It makes me want to say, "wait until he's in that alterra nursing home girl...I hear that molestation of senior citizens is common."
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Supersport
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 2:14 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Do you realize how fuckin' stupid you sound Quinn?
Almost as stupid as our governor trying to use the debate to tie DeVos to the molestation of senior citizens...almost as stupid, but not quite. Our governor is an idiot pulling out all the stops, more dirty politics than I've ever seen in a compaign, and all from her camp.
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Quinn
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 3:11 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Christ...take a breath douche bag. If you'd take a second and re-read my post, it's funny.

Why would you say "Nobody pulls his chain?" Why the F would you use that language? There are a thousand ways to say that your candidate is a strong, independent thinker who makes his own mind up without using that corny, 70's slang.

You are such a dipshit...and so hurt at even the slightest slam on your beloved candidates. The sooner you realize that your candidate is going to loose the better...maybe you won't be in such agony this election (like you were when Freeloader lost.)

Loser.
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Chitaku
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 3:48 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

She could pull my chain,and hopefully I could weasel into daddy Devos' fortune!!!!

Cookoo Devos, Cookoo Granholm, Were all fucked!
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Cambrian
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 3:55 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I gotta agree, I don't see a connection with vandalizing buildings to altering a campaign Billboard. If they had vandalized Jenny's billboard, I would have found it just as funny. Yes, I am a liberal, yes I am voting for Jenny, albeit reluctantly, I guess I am more or less not really voting for her, but voting against the DeVil. She sold me at the third debate when she called him out for being part of the reason are job market sucks so bad in the first place. Then he has the nerve to run his campaign strictly on buzzwords and catch phrases that are all about how bad off our job market is. If the Republican Party had given me someone to vote for like John McCane, that would be different story. Bush lost Michigan in the 04 election; do they honestly think we would vote a clone of him in to the Governor's office?
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Spitty
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 4:32 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

At least she didn't say,
"nobody yanks his crank. well, almost nobody"
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 5:24 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

What I found interesting about the third debate, and we didn't watch all of it (chores, don't ya know?) was that, when asked a question - health care, education, jobs, Jen had a REAL answer like seeking federal grants to reduce health care costs. All DICK DeVil could say was "...they've had four years to work on it..." Do folks realize how long it takes to get cooperation particularly at the federal level and with an acrimonious administration and state house/senate?

On a side note since we're talking about billboards/ads, I worked Granholm's campaign last election (just haven't had time this run) and I was AMAZED that we couldn't get lawn signs until just a few weeks before the election. They simply didn't want to contribute to "sign pollution". That's something I really notice and appreciate with every street corner covered to obscurity with signs and each moment of evening comercial time (other than the pharmaceuticals, of course)for opposing campaigns.
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Mauser765
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 6:10 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Screw Devil AND Judas Granholm. Aint no one gonna fix the mess we're in, especially since no ones willing to face facts about how we got here.

Jack says it best:

The big three killed my baby
no money in my hand again
the big three killed my baby
nobody's coming home again

Their ideas made me want to spit
a hundred dollars goes down the pit
30,000 wheels are rollin'
and my stick shift hands are swollen
everything involved is shady
the big three killed my baby

Why dont you take the day off and try to repair
a billion others dont seem to care
better ideas are stuck in the mud
the motors runnin' on Tuckers blood
dont let them tell you the future's electric
cause gasolines not measured in metric
30,000 wheels are spinnin'
and oil company faces are grinnin'
now my hands are turnin' red
and i found out my baby is dead

Well i've said it now, nothings changed
people are burnin for pocket change
and creative minds are lazy
and the big three killed my baby

And my baby's my common sense
so dont feed me planned obsolescence
im about to have another blowout..
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Chitaku
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 6:13 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

damn he was right and that song was written in 97,
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Chitaku
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 9:03 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

anyone see the english d on www.devosforgovernor.com
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1953
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 10:27 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I met Devos this week. He seemed like a nice, personable guy, with a genuine interest in urban renewal. He promised to host his first state of the state address from Detroit, if elected, to demonstrate his committment to this city. While I don't support some of his far right social views on items such as abortion, I also don't support people defacing his campaign billboards. Its immature and illegal. I hope the vandals are caught, tried, convited, and sentenced to the greatest penalty under the law.
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Bussey
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 10:43 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

kind of like the kids who tore down the student council posters and got detention.


Why are we even debating this childish act?


Its a political statement.

The billboard was paid for by a private interest not a profit seeking corporation. If people in this area don't agree with DeVos's agenda they should be able to express their attitude on his ephemeral message. After all, it is their city.

Just because he has the endless cash reserves to post his name all over town doesnt mean that the people who live here have to put up with it lying down.

Were the German partisians wrong for defaming Nazi posters?.....not to say Devos is a Nazi but a more general analogy eludes me right now
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Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 11:11 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)


quote:

What's with the copy on that commercial? "Nobody pulls his chain?" Geesh. Then they show her with her arms around him, then she says, "Well almost nobody..."

The mental images that conjurs are so disturbing.

It makes me want to say, "wait until he's in that alterra nursing home girl...I hear that molestation of senior citizens is common."




You should have heard the first draft, she said "nobody yanks his crank...well almost nobody."

Well, I guess she is hot. She could use a nose job, somebody call Greg Roche and put her on the books, we all know Daddy can afford it. If that God-fearing Christian Joe Simpson can buy his teenage daughter breast implants, certainly Daddy DeVos can pay for Princess' nose job.
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Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 10:30 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Worse than defacing the Devos sign, last night my neighborhood was littered with Granholm lawnsigns. At least 100 of these are now lining Woodward between Hockeytown and Mack. If you want to express your political views - put a lawn sign (or 100) on you own lawn. This does not help in out attempt to keep Brush Park clean.
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Rossco
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Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 10:39 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Mauser765's got it 100 percent right.
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Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 11:11 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

If it's not yours, don't touch it.

If you don't like Devos. don't vote for him.
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Quinn
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Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 11:50 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

This has got to be trademark infringement. Somebody call the cops quick.

q

Still...I have to think that if there was a "d" in Granholm's name she would do the same. Hmmm...quick check on her site www.granholmforgovernor.com comes up empty of any reference to the tigers. Maybe she wants to talk issues and not resort to petty, short, inane statements and tricks (like this Trademarked D).

Where was this a-hole when the Tiger's were losing. The more I think about this the more mad I get...alright gotta calm down.

Wait...he's got how many millions but now he's stealing a trademark to somehow tie himself to a successfull team to somehow soak up their success or something? Somebody stop this man please!
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Chitaku
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Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 12:42 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

well hey, if he's a tiger fan he's got my vote! puke
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Gennifer
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Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 10:18 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

someone needs to remind mr. devos what the english "d" logo represents -- DETROIT tigers. although it doesn't matter much because i'm sure it's in his plan to move them to grand rapids.
Grand Rapids Tigers here we come!!!!!!
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Bearinabox
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Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 10:46 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Grand Rapids Tigers? Nah. The Ada Township Tigers is more like it...
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Warriorfan
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Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 11:24 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Remember when DeVos was asked who is favorite Tiger was, and he couldn't name one? He couldn't even name a single player on the team, but I'm sure he is a real "fan." Even Jenny-from-the-block could rattle off a few players' names.

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