THE CITY OF COLUMBIA, MO
In Bethpage, which is on Long Island, New York, campaign signs for Missouri State Rep. Aaron McMullen (R-Independence) have shown up in the last month.
McMullen lost the Arkansas Senate primary on August 6 to Joe Nicola. He doesn’t seem to have any ties to Long Island. But people who live in Bethpage say it’s hard to go anywhere without seeing a sign with McMullen’s name or face on it. Hugh Gordon has lived in Bethpage for 22 years and says he has never seen anything like it.
Cameron said, “People say they’re going to write in McMullen for president.” It’s like there are more McMullen signs than Trump and Harris put together.
I have to ask myself, “Why in the world would a politician from Missouri state put up his campaign signs on Long Island?” every time I drive, do anything, or go to work and see these signs.
Around the middle of August, the signs first started to show up. He saw the signs for the first time when he woke up one morning and saw one on the yard of his neighbor. When Gordon asked his neighbor if she agreed with him, she said that the sign showed up overnight and she didn’t know who put it there.
It’s not just signs for elections either. Gordon says that McMullen banners can be seen over roads and that flyers for him are attached to light posts.
Since there is a Bethpage, some people think it was a shipping mistake. In spite of this, Bethpage, Missouri is more than 1,000 miles away from New York. It is also more than an hour away from McMullen’s legislative district and the district he ran for in the state senate.
“That’s one thing if it’s a shipping mistake.” Who is putting them down, though? You could send the package to the wrong Missouri, but who is going to open it? Reading the Missouri State Senate and putting down a lot of signs. “It doesn’t make sense,” Gordon said.
ABC 17 News got in touch with McMullen and his office. He hasn’t replied yet. According to Kim Koskovich, the accountant for McMullen’s campaign, the signs were not made by the campaign. He also said that he has no idea how or why they got to New York.
“I know that your signs have to follow a lot of rules.” It can’t be close to a street, and the manager must have paid for it, among other things. Koskovich said, “I don’t think those signs say any of that.” “I have no idea why they picked Aaron McMullen.”
Gordon thinks there are about 300 signs all over the area, which is making it hard for people to find their way.
That made me think it was a joke. “There are five or ten signs at highway exits and other places,” Gordon said. “But when you see 200 or 300 and a sign on the highway, you’d have to be a loser and have a lot of money to do this.”