TRESPASSING AND VANDALISM MUST STOP
HALLORAN CAMPAIGN CALLS FOR END TO SIGN THEFT
Dozens of Dan Halloran for City Council signs have been stolen and slashed in northeast Queens – and community residents have had enough.
Several residents of the neighborhood have filed police reports alleging signs were stolen from their private property. Community residents have expressed fears that Kevin Kim’s campaign or Kim supporters are stealing and destroying the signs in what appears to be an organized, systematic way throughout the district.
“I call on Kevin Kim to denounce this activity,” said Halloran. “This has no place in a campaign. The voters of Queens deserve to have their property rights respected and they deserve more civility and a real discussion of the issues. That’s what my campaign is all about.”
These crimes may be a continuation of a pattern of smears done by the Kim campaign, designed to distract voters from Kim’s ties to developers and his newness to the district.
“Kevin Kim will do and say anything to distract the voters from his lack of substance,” Halloran said. “In northeast Queens, we don’t stand for Kevin Kim’s brand of dirty politics. Of course, Kevin Kim just moved to this district in February, so maybe he just doesn’t know any better.”
Anthony Carollo, a former NYPD officer who volunteers for the Halloran campaign, pointed out that slashing a lawn sign require box cutters – and possession of box cutters is a felony. He called on Kim to investigate this vandalism.
“We believe the Kim campaign is behind these crimes,” Carollo said. “People are trespassing in the middle of the night with weapons. This activity is making our neighborhood unsafe, and it has to stop immediately.”
Douglaston resident David Gallagher filed a police report after a sign was stolen from his property on three separate occasions. Carollo pledged to work with the 111th Precinct to get to the bottom of this crime spree, which has hit all of the 19th District’s neighborhoods but is focused in Whitestone, Douglaston and Little Neck.
Dawn Anatra, a Halloran volunteer from Little Neck, presented a list of eight stolen signs and showed a photo of a sign slashed on Douglaston Parkway.
“These are crimes against our personal property,” Anatra said. “Elections should be decided by the voters, not by dangerous shenanigans.”
