ELECTION: FELGER TAKES VANDALISM, CAMPAIGN IN STRIDE

On one hand, Abbotsford mayoralty candidate Tim Felger is upset that his
campaign signs have all been vandalized by someone with a can of spray paint.

But on the other he freely admits he'd put them up on school grounds if he
had any good ones left.

"If I had any more signs I would," Felger said Wednesday when asked about
whether he planned on putting more signs on school grounds.

"I have 450 signs and I've put them up," he said. "When the city takes
them, I go down to the city and I get them and I got over 150 signs back.
If they knock them down, I go put them back up."

He flatly rejects previous accusations that he's behind damage to his
competitors' signs and says his own signs sustained more damage than anyone
else's.

"Since the last four weeks we've just been going around and every time they
knock them down, we put them up," Felger said.

"This has been a continuous thing. I figured they'd get tired of knocking
them down because we've been putting them in so deep. But instead of
getting tired of knocking them down, they're painting through them."

That said, Felger harbours no illusions that he'll win the mayoralty contest.

"I couldn't care less if I win, really," he said. "Not everybody would
spend $20,000 to get their message out. But, the way I see it, I've gotten
my message out that this is about [marijuana] prohibition. I've tried to
get my message out that prohibition is bad for the city and that the longer
we continue policing marijuana the less we can afford it and the more it's
going to cost us as violence in society."