Scott Griggs
This morning I found a Dave Neumann sign in my front yard. Neumann is the Dallas City Council incumbent in District 3 running for re-election.
Because I cover election races, I put no signs in my yard or bumper stickers on my car and I make no public endorsements.
Over the past few weeks, neighbors told me that they received notices from the Neumann campaign that said that they would place a sign in their yard unless the campaign was told otherwise.
Several weeks ago, Neumann signs popped up all over my neighborhood. Over the next week, Scott Griggs signs replaced many of those Neumann signs. Griggs is challenging Neumann for the seat.
Steven Schenck of the Griggs campaign said that’s happening all over the district. He said the term coined by others in the district is “to have been Neumann-ed.”
He said the Griggs campaign has gotten a number of angry calls from people who discovered Neumann signs in their yards and asked for Griggs signs to replace them.
Some yards, especially on busy streets, have both Neumann and Griggs signs. Schenck said that’s probably because some homeowners might think that the campaign has a right to place the signs on their property near the curb.
Schenck called Neumann’s campaign tactic unfortunate and even wondered if it’s legal.
Griggs was endorsed by both Stonewall Democrats and Dallas Gay and Lesbian Alliance in one of the few endorsements the two groups agreed on. He is also the only challenger to an incumbent the Dallas Morning News endorsed.
Have any of our readers in District 3 also been Neumann-ed?
Our street was Nuemann-ed with 2 of the large signs. One of the signs was placed at an angle that it blocked the view of traffic coming up Ledbetter. We called the city and they removed it. the second sign was placed directly across from the first on private property and the home owner removed that one herself.
The first sign was placed back up by the campaign,but the second time it was placed flat and is hardly noticeable.
It’s NOT legal what the Neumann campaign did
It’s happened to me twice. I’ve got a nice little collection of wasted signs on my front porch now. How do I get a Griggs sign? A big one!
@Terri you can go to the Scott Griggs headquarters on 12th right caddy corner to the Bank of America Tower. Of you can email me directly at Omar@stonewalldemocratsofdallas.org with your address, and that you want a large sign, and I will forward it to our Stonewall – Scott Griggs Liason who will deliver it soon to you.
Terri – apparently you were “re-neumanned”
Same thing happened to me. I never asked for it and it just appeared in my lawn.
It also happened to me twice, and this is after they were told NOT to put the signs in my yard. That was just one of several reason I no longer supported Neumann! I sure hop this will teach Politicians not to be so pushy!
Councilman Nuemann has my email address and he uses it to send me frequent public announcements from his City Council office. After I recently received several emails from his re-election campaign office I realized he shared my email address with them.
My physical address is public information but my email address is not and I did not authorize Nuemann to share it with his private organization.
Steve, it may not be illegal, but when told NO SIGNS? I find it rather insulting to not honor my request, and besides that his callers were down right rude!