MARK M ALDRIDGE - Independents to ban posters           a.userlink { color: #000000; } a.userlink:visited { color: #25120d; } a.userlink:hover { color: #25120d; } font[size="1"] { font-size:10px; } font[size="2"] { font-size:13px; } font[size="3"] { font-size:16px; } font[size="4"] { font-size:18px; } font[size="5"] { font-size:24px; } font[size="6"] { font-size:32px; } font[size="7"] { font-size:48px; } .GuestBookMessage { font-family: Times New Roman; color: #25120d; font-size: 13px; } .GuestBookMessageRow { font-family: Times New Roman; color: #25120d; font-size: 12px; } .GuestBookHeader { font-family: Times New Roman; color: #25120d; font-size: 12px; }                                                                           INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES SUPPORT THE ABOLISHMENT OF VOTE 1 POSTER’S!    If councils due to road safety concerns ban Posters and signs on our roadways due to safety concerns, how dare our representatives disrespect road safety for nothing but self-promotion?   Local Councils are employed to serve the community, yet they also join in this disgusting practice, allowing permits to political parties to flout laws put in place to protect the community and road safety in general.   Making matters worse is the fact so many of these Vote 1 posters, will be erected in direct defile of the rules and regulations put in place for their safe erection.   Each and Every Year hundreds of these posters are confiscated by our local councils for illegal erection, I would love to see how many of the parties involved receive a fine under the local guidelines, if a local business operator was to ignore such laws, I am sure the fine would be issued with in hours.   With Road safety a supposed major concern to our State and Federal Government’s, how dare they ignore their own findings when it benefits them?   I will personally not erect any of these annoying signs myself, and I would much prefer that our government took the initiative and banned this outrageous practice all together, if it was about the creation of an informed electorate, which I doubt, I am sure the media could take up that cause, or the electoral commissioner could fulfill his role of informing the electorate by the production of a how and who to vote for guide.   During my campaigning I will NOT erect posters, which have the ability to distract drivers and interfere with road safety initiatives, and it is about time our many candidates put the community’s safety first as well.   Mark M Aldridge Independent Senate Candidate Grouped Candidates in Blank Box “Bee” 08 82847482 / 0403379500 Email; aldridgemark@bigpond.com www.markmaldridge.com                      Website provided by Vistaprint