WHO STOLE ALL THE KUCINICH YARD SIGNS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD?

I haven't written much about the primary recently, but I need to say by way of introduction that I live in Congressional District 10 and I support the re-election of Dennis Kucinich. Strongly. My main reasons were well summarized by Dick Feagler yesterday; also, I spent an MTB hour interviewing Barbara Ferris and came away deeply unimpressed. That's my opinion, you may or may not share it. Dennis is going to win tomorrow in any event. But that's not the point of this post.

Saturday I drove through my neighborhood (Archwood Avenue and the nearby stretch of Denison) and saw lots of yellow Dennis! yard signs. Dozens of them. It seemed like there was a sign in every fourth or fifth yard.

Feeling a bit left out, I drove over to the Kucinich campaign office and picked up a sign. Sunday afternoon, I went out in the front yard to plant it. Something seemed strange. I looked across the street, where there were four yellow signs the day before -- all gone now. I peered down the street. Not a single spot of yellow as far as I could see. I got in the car to drive to the supermarket -- up to 38th and Archwood, over to Denison, down Denison to Fulton, across the bridge and down Fulton to Ridge. All the Kucinich! signs from the day before had vanished.

This was weird. I suddenly seemed to be the only guy for blocks and blocks with a yellow yard sign. Had I missed a memo from the campaign -- "Bring back our yard signs, we need them in Rocky River"? Was there some horrible scandal story about my candidate in the Sunday PD?

Or -- hardest to believe -- did someone from the other side go out in the middle of the night and steal all those signs?

Well, I just got home from another trip to Dennis' campaign office. No, there was no official recall. Nobody asked Kucinich's supporters to take their signs down. And there was no scandal reported Sunday morning.

Which pretty much leaves Explanation Number Three: Some time Saturday night or Sunday morning, somebody apparently went out and stole the Dennis! signs from hundreds of Cleveland front yards. That's theft, of course...not to mention trespassing.

It seems very likely that this was an organized effort. Organized by the Ferris campaign? By some political supporter, with or without her knowledge? By a bunch of College Republicans trying to earn their Dirty Tricks Merit Badges? By the Plain Dealer editorial board? (Okay, that's a joke.)

I don't have a clue. But I'd sure like to know. I'd sure like to publish the answer.

So if anybody reading this knows where those signs went, please send me an email.

It won't change the outcome of the 10th District primary tomorrow -- but it might tell us a lot about who we can trust in future elections.