"Sign, sign, everywhere a sign"

 The closing days of the Hoboken municipal election were always going to be a dramatic, tense affair. 

With five major campaigns, the push-pull, not to mention the mountains of special interests/Big Developer loot, the guarantee of mistakes big and small is baked in.

So too with the signage. Previously noted here, there's been a schizophrenic bit of activity at Ironstate's Applied buildings. First, the Russo signs were put up, backing the 100K investment, then oddly, Ruben Ramos signs began to appear, seen often right next to Russo signs.

Until they didn't. 

This Ruben Ramos campaign sign appeared on Upper Hudson only a week ago. 
It then quietly joined numerous others disappearing. 

All is, however, not lost. The epidemic of disappearing Ramos campaign signs on Applied buildings is not complete. Some are bravely forging on.

A reader submitted a photo of one Ramos campaign sign that had withstood the "Russo Only" purge. 

"I live," says this Ramos campaign sign within spitting distance of a Russo sign.

Then, oddly and out of the blue, the first casualty of the sign wars occurred with one campaign worker exiting a downtown Washington St. location. They should have known better. 

The rest of this story is members only and will go out later today. For everyone else, a smashing tune. It's a sign of the times.