OPINION:
Election Day has come and gone.
It reminds me of “The Outer Limits,” a 1960s TV show.
With the end of round-the-clock commercials by politicians, political parties, political action groups and pay-for-play special interest groups, we now return control of your television to you until the next election cycle.
No more robocalls, text messages or candidates’ campaign mailings clogging mailboxes and weighing down our hardworking postal employees. Finally, some peace and quiet.
Candidates who claimed they cared about the environment can now do their part. Winners and losers should have their paid campaign staff and volunteers pick up all the thousands of campaign signs that litter our roads and highways. Or they could also use leftover campaign funds to hire homeless or unemployed people to collect them. Or let some people sentenced by judges to community service be assigned this task.
If candidates refuse to clean up after themselves, your local suburban village, city, town or county department of highways should do the job and send candidates the bill.
LARRY PENNER
Great Neck, New York
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