[Talk Host]

Courts all across the land are ruling that political advertising is the purest form of freedom of speech and the one that must be guarded the most. They are ruling time and again that any restrictions of candidates during the limited time they have to garner votes has a chilling effect on the political process. So any restrictions of knocking on doors, distribution of literature, prohabitions against yard signs or sign size or quantity is a clear and irrefutable violation of the freedom of speech.

I have asked this before. If a candidate for office is knocking on doors in the villages, what can be done to stop them. Neighborhood watch has no authority to do so. If they call the Sheriff, what is the Sheriff going to do, arrest them for campaigning? The streets in the Villages are public streets, as are the downtown streets. There is no way to legally forbid it. Thank God, The first amendment and the men and women who died to give us this right and freedom to select candidates and vote them into or out of office.