I left the morning of Oct. 17 to join friends at breakfast and was visually assaulted — and to some degree insulted — by a string of Sally Chen, a candidate for Redmond City Council, political signs.

In a distance of 300 feet, signs repeated every 20-25 feet, on both sides of the roadway — the landscape was polluted with these political signs. At the bottom of the hill … not just one but four signs huddled together in a compass point pattern.

To Sally Chen and her supporters, this number of signs assaults our sensibilities. I left four hours later for some errands and the neighborhood has spoken: Many of the signs had already been pulled out of the ground. Political signs are a part of the process, and fortunately, we have very few contested positions so the number of political signs polluting our landscape has been reasonable until the the morning of Oct. 17.

To add insult to injury, the weather is arriving just as predicted – heavy showers and wind so this plethora of signs will be blown and scattered across the roadways and into our greenways. Thank you, Sally Chen, for your understanding and respect of our environment.

I, like the other voters in Redmond, are wondering when we will hear what Ms. Chen stands for. Councilmember Allen’s record of environmental and neighborhood advocacy speaks for itself.

Sue Stewart, Redmond