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A local council candidate who vowed to clean up the streets has yet to pick up their election placards that continue to litter the suburb.
Residents of the once pristine neighborhood are now navigating dozens of cardboard signs, many of which have ended up on the footpath.
Rain-soaked placards adorned with smiling faces and empty slogans like “A Cleaner City” and “Let’s End Illegal Dumping” are now ironically bobbing in gutters and tangled in hedges.
“I’ve actually slipped over a couple of these things recently” said local resident Janet Barnes (43), while gesturing at her leg in a moon boot.
“You almost have to respect the fact that they think their campaign posters are simply the community’s problem the second the election is over” she added.
Despite a bitter and dirty election campaign it seems as though the only issue that all candidates can agree on is the fact that election posters are such an effort to take down, and someone’s going to clean them up eventually.
“My political rivals are lying, corrupt and don’t have the interests of the working people of the area- although I do take offence to the notion that they are hypocritical for not cleaning up their election posters.” Said a rival candidate that also had dozens of election posters scattered throughout the local area.
Almost all candidates denied an interview with The Advocate and said the placards aren’t their problem and to go find someone that actually cares.
