Candidate’s Campaign Signs Going Missing in Stephens County

Someone is stealing political signs in Stephens County a week before the General Primary.

Bryan Dooley is running for Post 4 of the Stephens County Commission.

Dooley says one of his campaign signs went missing last week.

“I got a call Thursday morning and a gentleman asked me if I had borrowed the sign that I had put in his yard and I said no,” Dolley said. “I told him I would replace it and he said, ‘Put it closer to the driveway where I can keep an eye on it.’ There’s about six signs there and just mine was missing. Everybody else’s was still there.”

Dooley said he’s had more than just one campaign sign to go missing from different parts of the County.

And he says other candidate signs have also disappeared.

“The next day, where you go into my farm, there were two signs, John Smith’s and Gasaway’s. They got them and the neighbors actually saw them get those. They reported it to the deputies. The first day it was only my signs, but they came back and took other peoples’ signs,” Dooley said.

According to authorities with the Stephens County Sheriff’s Office no report has been filed.

Dooley said once he got the initial call, he began going around the county to check on his other signs and found many more were missing – between 20 and 25.

He said it isn’t so much about people taking his campaign signs, it’s about running a fair and honest election campaign.

“It’s the principle,” Dooley explained. “I had a businessman who said they got one of my signs out of the front of his business. I told him I wasn’t worried, but he said, ‘But Bryan, it’s the principle.’ And I agree with that. Who would stoop that low to do something like that?”

Another candidate running for County Commission who did not want to be identified said he has also had campaign signs go missing.

The May General Primary is coming up next Tuesday.

Early voting continues through Friday of this week at the County Registrar’s office on Tugalo St.