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Brad Sherman Accuses Howard Berman Supporters of Stealing Campaign Signs

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Some Sherman signs on their way to the landfill
Now that we're down to the last 10 days of the Berman/Sherman blood feud, things are getting pretty silly.

First, the Howard Berman camp was high-fiving about Brad Sherman's photoshopped mailers. Sherman sent mailers to Jewish households that included a picture of his mother. But she was airbrushed out of the ones that went to the goyim. Everyone had a good laugh at Sherman's expense.

Now, Sherman is accusing the Berman camp of stealing his lawn signs. OK, typical campaign sniping. But Sherman claims he has the photos to prove it.

Take a look. At right is a photo of some Berman precinct-walkers in possession of some folded-up Sherman signs.

The photo was taken on May 13 by a Sherman supporter who saw the Berman crew hanging out at a Starbucks in West Hills.

"What were they doing with Sherman yard signs?" asks John Schwada, a Sherman spokesman. "Very suspicious. And it comes at a time when the Sherman campaign has received numerous complaints from supporters that their yard signs have mysteriously disappeared."
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Berman adviser Brandon Hall countered that the Berman supporters were simply cleaning the neighborhood of some unwanted litter: "Fed up with Sherman's negative campaigning, many (voters) have asked us to remove his signs that were placed in their yards without permission; we're happy to do so."

Hall called the sign-stealing accusation another Sherman "gimmick."

"Without a record to run on, all Brad Sherman can do is doctor photos, complain about yard signs, and crash our press conferences," Hall said.

Only 10 days to go! And then we do it all again in November!

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ChaChaFul
ChaChaFul

My landlords have a Sherman sign in their front lawn. A Berman canvasser told us that Sherman is misrepresenting his campaign. When my landlord brought up about all those free trips that Berman takes, the canvasser says that's because Berman works hard for his districts. He said that since Sherman supposedly took only one trip, he isn't working hard for the people. "Wouldn't it be better to elect a Congressman that works hard for you instead of sitting around doing nothing?" She said "Perhaps". At that point the Berman canvasser voluntarily attempted to take down the Sherman sign and replace it with a Berman one until my landlady intervened and told him not to touch her sign. Sneaky I say.

SFVster
SFVster

Like what some of my colleagues have said, I've been canvassing for Berman too and it's safe to assume the Sherman signs are unwanted so we take as many down as we can and replace them with Berman signs.  

Eli
Eli

 I can't imagine that Howard Berman is telling his canvassers to do this.

America_princess212
America_princess212

I have also been walking for the campaign since day 1, and the Berman campaign specifically told us never to trash Sherman. And tht is exactly what we have been doing. We reapect Sherman, but since we have started all I hear is Sherman trashing Berman. It seems like a popularity contest back in HS. Not two well reapected Congressmen.I have actially gone to homes where people say tht someone went to their door and asked if they could put up LS. But they didnt kno who SermN waz. So of course they werent gonna support him. If he is playing dirty! ( soorry for the gramatical errors, I am using my phone)

informed
informed

Because Sherman people are sticking lawn signs in peoples lawns without permission. When the walkers go to the door people on a number of occasions and tell US that they filled out a survey and next thing there was a lawn signs. Or when WE knock on doors and tell people that Brad has only passed 3 thats right 3 bills since he has been in congress and 2 were naming post offices, and WE tell them about Bermans accomplishments, people switch sides. Brad is a show pony. He throws a smear campaign about the trips the chair of the house foreign affairs committee. Because he does work. Kinda important to know something about what you are voting on Brad. You never heard about Sherman doing anything until this campaign, Im sure that the Berman campaigns fault right Brad. Even the chair of the committee who approved funding for the 405 (THE CHAIRMAN) said it was Berman who did the heavy lifting, Brad just came to a hearing. Another campaign tactic? Cmon, is that all just a trick to get the medias attention? Look at the record, just take the 10 minutes it takes to look at the record and you will agree that Berman is the only choice and thats why IM WITH HOWARD

trojan2002
trojan2002

Sherman is desperate. He has been running on GIMMICKS this whole campaign.So much so, that I wonder if his real internal polling show him coming in 3rd?

Now I ask, so is this ass clown the man you want representing you in Congress? Is this the man that can bring us our tax dollars back to the valley? Does he have the temperament and maturity to handle important matters without the protection of the statesman, Berman?

Sara
Sara

  When you get caught stealing, the polite thing to do issimply apologize and return the stolen goods.    

thischarmingman
thischarmingman

So when is Sherman going to apologize for trying to steal credit for the 405 expansion?

Jileskay
Jileskay

The Berman campaign is sneaky and desparate. They should not be admitting to taking down the signs of an opposing candidate.  Everyone knows a candidate would not put lawn signs on a property unless the property owner approved and requested it.

That said, David Ploufe says: "Lawn signs don't vote."

Jordan P
Jordan P

I've been out walking for Howard since March, and I've encounter a dozen or so people with Sherman signs who said "it just popped up over night" and have requested it be removed after hearing about the particulars of the race. One particular weekend, a few other canvassers and I were following Sherman walkers who were just putting a sign up at every registered Democrat's house. We'd knock on the doors and the home owners would confirm they had not ordered a sign and "I guess they just put it there because I voted for him last time" - this is why you see Berman canvassers pulling Sherman signs, at the request of homeowners.

SFV
SFV

This is patently false.  I'm sure some homeowners do change allegiances during the race, but absolutely no lawn signs are placed without permission.  Let's not stoop to the level of deliberate misinformation, folks.

ValleyNative
ValleyNative

I am not a voter in the 30th district but I met a woman recently at Gelson's, who, when I apprised her about Sherman photoshopping his mother out of the photo sent to gentiles, she told me to my face that she was going to call the Sherman campaign and demand that her sign be removed by them in protest, or it would find its way into the blue trash bin. She is not Jewish. And she just tosses political mail into the trash, so if she got the mailer sans his mother, she never looked it nor had even heard about it until I informed me.

Ron
Ron

 "she never looked it nor had even heard about it until I informed me."

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Showtime 09
Showtime 09

Haha wow Brad is getting desperate. I work for Howard Berman and we go house to house talking to voters. 8 out of 10 Sherman lawn signs are from households that have no idea who Brad Sherman is and say his people just drop them off. When we talk to the voters, they ask us to take them down. We have a pretty nice collection of unwanted Sherman lawn signs.

Woodrow
Woodrow

 Hells yeah!!!! If Brad Sherman wants his signs back, he better be man enough to roll by the Howard Berman campaign headquarters and take them from us. We snatching your signs up son!!!

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