This year's general election is on September 19.
COMMENT:
Every election year we see and hear about candidates' hoardings being vandalised, destroyed or stolen.
It's an unnecessary inconvenience and extra cost for those candidates targeted by the immature reactions of the thoughtless offenders.
Whether these foolish acts are committed as a joke or for a reason more malicious, there
can't be many people who find these behaviours interesting or even slightly amusing.
Across the Bay of Plenty, we're all sure to have noticed election billboards going up in our neighbourhoods. What we might have also seen are the defacing of some of those hopefuls.
Last week, Bay of Plenty MP and former women's refuge manager Angie Warren-Clark felt personally attacked when her billboard was vandalised with the blacking out of her eyes. She has also had swastikas spraypainted on hoardings and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has also been defaced ahead of this year's general election in Tauranga.