Lawn Sign Lunacy

Dear Editor:

Well, with 7% of the vote, I guess we know that those Sliwa lawn signs really did the trick. I honestly think he might have more signs posted around Rockaway than the number of votes he got. And why were those signs being posted in Rockaway, the Sliwa capital of New York, anyway? Maybe a few of them should have been placed in Bed Stuy (Mamdani +57) or in the East Village (Mamdani +42), where no one knows Sliwa’s name, and they might have had an effect. No, they thought covering every inch of street median in Rockaway was the better move. Those poor volunteers. It is just a sign (see what I did there?) of how poorly run the Republican party is in New York. The fact that Sliwa ran unopposed in the primary, and then the fact that it seems like he spent his whole campaign where he felt safe and warm in Rockaway and Staten Island. Maybe in the future the party can run someone who has a chance of winning the whole city, not just its outer boroughs, where even a rock with a capital R next to its name is already guaranteed to win. Sliwa campaigned on cleaning up New York City. I hope he at least goes out and cleans up his lawn signs.

Gavin Meech