Richardson campaign breaks sign etiquette

It’s no secret that Republicans think they can beat Rep. Andy Nuñez, D-Hatch, and have put a lot of money into the campaign of Republican challenger Isaac Chavez. Gov. Bill Richardson is under a lot of pressure to help candidates like Nuñez keep their positions.

Chavez e-mailed me this photo this morning. It was taken at the intersection of Lohman Avenue and Roadrunner Parkway in Las Cruces, where someone put a bag-type Richardson sign around a Chavez sign, blocking the view from any angle of Chavez’s sign. You can see the Web address at the bottom of Chavez’s sign sticking out below the Richardson sign.

“… you can see what lack of respect his campaign has for the little guy,” Chavez said in an e-mail. “There are many signs already up at that spot. Why did they find it necessary to cover mine?”

There is plenty of room at that location, and Richardson’s sign could have gone up in another spot that wasn’t covering Chavez’s sign.

It was probably a volunteer campaign worker who did this, and it likely wasn’t sanctioned by the campaign, but it was unnecessary, nonetheless.

Candidates’ campaigns have to respect each others’ signs, regardless of political affiliation, or such childishness will become rampant.

Update, 12:45 p.m.

It is possible that, as a commenter on this site pointed out, the campaign had nothing to do with this, and some passerby who doesn’t like Chavez moved the sign. Let’s hope that’s the case.

An earlier version of this posting stated that Richardson’s sign was in front of Chavez’s sign when it was, in fact, a bag placed around Chavez’s sign.