Police Report: Batchelder Political Signs Stolen
The Shelby Township police were called to investigate the theft of several Richard Batchelder political signs from a residential lawn.
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Candidate for Shelby Township Clerk Richard Batchelder filed a police report Sunday after he said a political sign was pulled from a residential lawn near 23 and Shelby roads.
A witness told police that a silver Chevy Malibu had circled the neighborhood several times before two women jumped out of the vehicle, pulled the sign from the ground and placed it in the trunk of the vehicle.
The witness said she could see several other political signs already in the trunk. She was not able to provide police with the vehicle's license plate number.
Batchelder told police several more of his signs placed around town have been stoen.
Mike
7:49 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012
And this makes makes the headlines? They are paper and wire and probably cost $.30 a piece.
John Lang
8:17 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012
You're missing the point a little bit, Mike, although this article doesn't help any. The bigger picture is that there have been several recent reports of the challengers to the current Board having their signs stolen, not only Mr. Batchelder. If you are a registered voter in the Township, you may also have been receiving negative, hate filled campaign literature in the mail, sent from anonymous addresses in Lansing and other fictitious locations. An overall pattern of dirty tricks is being perpetrated by some unknown individuals against anyone who is challenging any of the incumbents. Sickening acts of desperation, actually.
Matt Guarnieri
8:35 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012
Mike...... Maybe the signs were placed on rental property locations and the landlord, the real property owner who pays taxes in Shelby Twp., didn't want them on his property.
And Lisa Manzella's son (Joe Junior) lies in Lansing and is quite politically active so I can guess who is sending negative campaign material and who is financing this.
John Lang
9:28 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012
"...maybe..., I can guess..."
SharonP
9:54 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012
Who did it? Well, let's see. Who has a lot to lose and is just a working crony who owes his boss BIG TIME?
BIG TIME as in, "I don't have a college degree but now I'm making more money than people who graduate from Yale."
I'll give you a few hints:
1) He didn't graduate from college.
2) He was/is the Youth Chair of the Local Republican Party where he most likely met his boss.
3) If Stan Grot loses the election he will be out of a job that pays in excess of $70,000 tax payer dollars per year.
It's just a guess but I would say Grot's controversial assistant, Brian Fairbrother (or one of his young friends), is behind the "dirty campaigning" for Stan Grot. I bet if you check the parking lot at the next youth Republican event you will see a Silver Chevy Malibu there.
John Lang
10:01 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012
Well, it's never a good thing to guess or assume. The truth will come out in time. I understand that a suspect was apprehended while in the act of vandalizing another candidate's signs over the weekend. Hopefully the information about this gets publicized before August 7.
Matt Guarnieri
11:54 am on Thursday, July 12, 2012
But someone political would know the fallout of disturbing any signs.
I don't like political signs of the people I think are corrupt, inept or will knowingly raise my taxes but I assume the person who has those signs up are in cahoots with the crooks, or possibly just too dumb to look up the truth about those candidates, I don't need to take anything down.
If you see a sign and have questions about it legitimately being placed, knock on the door of that person and ask or contact the information on the sign and ask. Don't disturb someone's private property.
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12:24 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012
Mr. Batchelder is a whiny man. Wasting our police time on his political signs. Grow up. Sign theft is annoying, yes, but people (often kids playing pranks) do it all the time. He wants to be clerk but has no ideas for our township. Stan Grot is not perfect, but he is far better than the Save Shelby/Sue Shelby recallleader Richard Batchelder.