ELECTION SIGNS DESTROYED

The federal election campaign is less than two weeks old, but one of
Abbotsford's five candidates is already expressing frustration that
his signs are either disappearing or being ripped down.

Marijuana Party candidate Tim Felger said on Monday that $1,800 worth
of signs had already been destroyed by members of the public since he
started putting them up at the end of last week. "I am spending a lot
of money and a lot of energy doing this," Felger said.

"It's nothing personal for me - it's about getting the information out there."

Felger said that of all the times he has run, he has never seen such
damage to signs and "people resisting another point of view."

Felger will go up against Conservative candidate Ed Fast, NDP
candidate Bonnie Rai, Liberal candidate Dr. Lionel Traverse and Green
candidate Karen Durant on election day on Oct. 14.

Speaking last week, Rai told The Abbotsford News that she too was
concerned about the prospect of people potentially removing her election signs.

That has been a problem in past elections, she pointed out.

"People are very disrespectful," she said at the time. "It's the law,
you are not supposed to do it . . . nobody should have the right to do that."