At least two Walhalla candidates take down signs

Walhalla city council candidate Charles Morgan says he also has taken down signs promoting his campaign in the November 5 election.  At the City Hall meeting last night, there were indications that, at least so far, there will be no official vote to forbid candidate signs until two weeks before Election Day, although both Morgan and a second candidate have made the decision voluntarily.  After the meeting, Walhalla Councilman David Underwood changed his mind and now believes that, for the betterment of his city, he and the other Walhallans in the November election should remove all of their roadside campaign signs that are mounted on public property—such as the Main Street grass medians. In a statement to 101.7/WGOG NEWS, the candidate for re-election to the city council said, “I challenge the other candidates, for the citizens and the city, and remove our signs from our Main Street to the mountains. It’s not about us right now,” he said, “let’s get it cleaned up.” During last night’s meeting Mayor Danny Edwards, one of four candidates for that office, suggested the city fathers consider the two-week limit as early as the 2020 elections when a President and other top offices will be filled. Edwards says he remembers that, in the run-up to recent national and state elections, candidates of all sorts placed signs along Walhalla roadways. “I don’t really want to see that again,” he said.