Transform Political Yard Signs into Impeach Signs

By Bill Crosier

Tuesday evening, after the polls close, go by your nearest voting locations and yank up all the political yard signs before they get disposed of the next morning. Invite your friends to do the same and save them.

Then plan a sign-painting party sometime later this month to transform those signs into patriotic messages for regime change at home that you can put up all around town. Imagine a thousand signs around your city with such messages as "IMPEACH" in giant letters. Or make a series of them with a single word on each: "Lying" "Spying" "Torture" "IMPEACH!" and plant them in a row along a busy street.

For your sign-painting party, do this:
1. Get a paint roller and tray, and some quick-dry primer that will stick to the signs (especially important if you have plastic signs).

2. After that dries, put on another coat of white latex paint (dries faster than alkyd/oil-based paint). (Test both the primer and the next coat of paint on the type of signs common in your town, before your sign-painting party. Ask the friendly folks at your local hardware store for suggestions on the best types of paint to use.)

3. After that second coat of paint dries, use stencil(s) with your favorite impeach-related slogan(s) and some spray paint, and transform those signs into ones that will get noticed. You can make stencils from cardboard or from some of the yard signs.

4. Have food and drinks and music to make it fun and to keep your helpers from leaving before the signs are all done.

If you have lots of signs, a paint sprayer will help with all three of the above coats, but a paint roller will work too. Just make sure you do some test painting in advance of your party to make sure the paint will stick to the signs (especially important for plastic signs).

Don't wait until the day after the election to get the signs. They may already be headed for the landfill.