Wayne Township is a suburb community of Indianapolis with a population in excess of 110,000.  Andy Harris, the current township trustee is running for re-election and uses billboard advertising as a part of his campaign.  He was surprised last week when he found that one of his billboards had been replaced by a sign supporting his opponent Chuck Jones.  Mr. Harris took to facebook and posted the following:

“I am very disappointed in the actions of my opponent and or his campaign. My firefighters who endorsed and support me, spent their hard earned money on billboards, contracted until November 6 for my re-election. Only to have them torn down while being so blatant to screw his own billboard in its place, that is so disappointing.”

When Candidate Jones was contacted by rtv6 in Indianapolis, Mr. Jones denied having anything to do with removing and replacing the sign.

Keyes Outdoor, who had the contract for the site indicated they did not remove the sign and had the stolen sign reprinted and planned to reinstall.

Later that week, Timothy Logan, the owner of the building released the following statement:

“Billboards were placed on my property with a political advertisement without my consultation or expression of permission. The Andy Harris campaign did not request permission from me, and neither did the company that hung the billboards, Keye Advertising.

As the owner of the building and the billboards, I informed an employee to remove the unauthorized advertisements. Upon doing so, I offered the Chuck Jones for Wayne Township Trustee campaign the billboard space. Chuck Jones and his team did not ask for the billboards to be removed. He accepted my offer to place his sign on the billboard.”

“The Andy Harris campaign is alleging that Chuck Jones orchestrated the removal of these unauthorized signs. He did not. I was never contacted about the Harris Campaign’s signs, they were explicitly hung without my permission, and I removed them independently.”

Insider’s take – In case you had not noticed election season is in full swing.  We guess we know who the building owner is voting for.

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