I early voted at Reverchon today, but I can't take credit for the sign, either.

Ms. Mayad shouldn't be too upset about an itty-bitty, stick-on "P." It adds a little truthfulness to the VoteNo! campaign.

By the way, Matt, TrinityVote's URL is linked incorrectly. It's http://www.trinityvote.org

Genius!

Easy to forecast these last couple of weeks we'd be seeing lots of hitting Belo the belt.

I can account fully for my movements today, Matt, and I deeply repent your inpinuations.

Jiimmhy
did NOTHING wrong

jimmy did you use up all the "pave"'s yet??

That sign is the single most accurate thing I've seen thus far associated with "vote no" camp.

Maybe Ms. Mayad would like to explain how the large Trinity Vote Yes sign at Congress and Douglas by the entrance to the ND Tollway ended up being altered with orange spray paint (circle with a slash through it), the exact color that city road crews use.

Good point, HSH. I would suspect Ms. Dugger was directly involved.

I'd be tempted to change the "S" to a "P" on signs myself, but I have yet to see a single one of their signs in my White Rock Lake neighborhood. The Vote YES signs predominate. I hope that bodes well for us.

You have to wonder if they did it themselves so DMN can have a front page headline in 3 inch letters screaming "Those YES guys are now resorting to vandalism! Vote NO to send a message to these shameful hooligans."

Yeah, I saw this when exiting after voting at Reverchon yesterday. Gave me such a chuckle! And I also spotted the orange spray paint on the vote Yes sign on Wycliff. That was done over a week ago and the color is an exact match to street and utility marker paint. IJS

Matt Pulle the most biased jouranlist in town

Mike.... I'm sure that Rebeca Dugger has more important things to do than go around Dallas defacing signs....

Vandalism? That's a harsh word for this fine work. That sign was truthified! LOVE IT.

Right, cp. Her "more important things" no doubt include being a shill for the Vote No creeps during City of Dallas work hours.

Another day, another pro-tollroad DMN story.

We see threats that the city might lose up to $18 million in funding if the city votes Yes (or For). But it completely fails to mention that the billion dollars that the NTTA is supposed to contribute is not firm.

Why does the "We may not pay a billion dollars of the project" comments from the NTTA make it only to DallasBlog.com and the $18 million from the County and from statewide ratepayers deserve top-story status on DallasNews.Com?

Personally, I would think the $1 billion or so potential shortfall might be a bigger deal than the $18 million or so potential shortfall. But I've never really been good at math.

The general theory here being that if I put up a sign on my lawn expressing my political views that any yapping blogdog is entitled to come along and modify that sign to express his opinion? What a novel view of free speech.

Funny stuff. But I'm with HG, how can you call yourself a jouranlist?

I think Matt Pulle is the best journalist in Dallas. Number one. Do you even read his stuff?

You guy's need to get over the Ed Oakley thing. I like the guy and voted for him over Leppert but let's face it. He was never going to be Mayor. Leppert and his DCC buddies bought the thing.

You need to quit the blame game. Matt was fair to all in the mayor's race. BTW, I do think the DMN was very unfair to Ed. Leppert was their guy.

Bill M.,

Geez, You DMN guys just don't have any sense of humor.

BTW, No one is going to mess with your sign. It is safe. Your lawn is outside the city of Dallas so you go ahead and put whatever you want out there. You have my permission, Bill.

Prediction: 62% will vote YES

I have it on good authority that the signs modified were taken from the median... where they are trash, legally speaking. This is just recycling. If the vote no campaign didn't post their signs illegally then the person doing this would have no trash to modify and place in legal locations.

Additionally Modified trash is not being placed in peoples lawns against their wishes... and no legally posted signs are being modified. So Bill M.'s analogy is not relevant... unlike the No campaign these guys believe in free speech. They also happen to believe in telling the truth.

I have been told that this is in retaliation for my neighborhood and another being hit by the vote no campaigns goons... they ripped up every vote yes sign and replaced many with vote no signs... and these WERE in yards. At least 2 whole neighborhoods were hit. Pissed many of people off.

They have been dishonest from the get go and we are sick of their lies.

On a side note: if I were running the vote no camp I would fire Becky Mayad... this going public will only bring out the dishonesty in the no campaigns slogan... I know many people who feel deceived (they were going to vote no... until they found out what no vote means). So lets get this in the press and have some clarity. Vote no will only win through deception.

Always remember that what you read in print is TRUE. that is until the internet came along. Great thought and little resouces put that together. I never thought that when you took a "P" in someones yard that it would be so funny.

For what it's worth, Becky Mayad is probably the most honest, friendly, helpful and accessible spokesperson I have ever dealt with. You can disagree with the side she's representing but I don't think it's fair to impugn her integrity.

If anyone knows anyone who would like to know how the clarified "Vote NO!" signs (I.E. "Pave the Trinity" signs)were created, the instructions on how to make them are online at details are online at http://www.studentmotivation.org/TrinityRiverVoteClarificationProject/. The instructions include the type labels to purchase and the an upload of the form used with the P's in the blue background.

Nobody said anything about her integrity (or how nice she may be)... It was only implied that the decision to send this image to 2 media sources (maybe more) was not strategically wise. People in campaigns have been fired for much less (even nice people with integrity).

Google three words, Trinity River Vote, and see what you get as the first hit. Amazing!