To the editor:
I am a candidate for state representative for the 3rd Berkshire District.
Like all the other candidates, my campaign has paid for with donations and my volunteers have legally placed lawn signs supporting my campaign, all in legally permissible locations. Recently, however, there has been a rash of removal and destruction of my campaign signs, in Great Barrington and Housatonic. That behavior is reprehensible and un-American. The placement of campaign lawn signs is free speech protected by the First Amendment. The removal and destruction of signs violates that fundamental Constitutional right, as well as the laws protecting personal property, and it reflects negatively on the opposing candidate(s) who support and condone such behavior.
Jamie Minacci
Stockbridge
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