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2 May 2014

First Amendment 1, Citizens for a Better Flathead 0

This morning the Flathead County Commission approved a notice of intent to amend the county’s zoning regulations to remove durational limits from political signs. Commissioners Krueger and Holmquist voted Aye. Commissioner Scott, who’s running for re-election, abstained. Lynnette Hintze has the story at the InterLake.

Durational limits, clearly unconstitutional, are being struck down or repealed across the nation. Nevertheless, Citizens for a Better Flathead, which usually has better sense, mounted a campaign to retain the limits, arguing that protecting people from alleged insults to scenery was more important than abiding by the Bill of Rights.

Let’s hope that the scenery über alles agitators lose their adore for prior restraint of free speech.