To the Editor:
What’s in a sign? Everybody recognizes Del. Rob Krupicka’s orange campaign signs and sees in Rob’s service the warmth and self-control that color psychologically signifies. Mayor Bill Euille had bright red even before it was the Republican color, but finally has caught up with the program and switched to something else. Is the flair of green in Kerry Donley’s signs for the luck of the Irish? If so, why not a shamrock? How about former U.S. Rep. Jim Moran yanking up his own signs because he didn’t like their design?
Euille and Donley both have blue and green signs. While the blue makes sense — it is the Democrat’s color — the green raises questions. They both want to deface the parkway viewshed with a metro station which will consume two acres of parkland/wetland and add four million square feet of additional development, half of the additional traffic to which will drive on Route 1 rather than take public transit.
So if the green doesn’t signify the environment, what does it? Money, maybe? Much of it poured into campaign contributions, ad hoc “amenities” worked out with city hall, elected officials’ pet projects, bank loans for construction and mortgages, etc.? How about tax increases to cover the “hidden costs” of all this development, cost overruns, etc.?
Then there are Allison Silberberg’s signs — blue because she’s a Democrat with red accents showing her willingness to work with everybody and be mayor for all the people — not just the ones who voted for her party, unlike so many of her City Council colleagues.
What’s in a sign? Maybe more than we might think?
Dino Drudi
Alexandria