Worst. Sign. Ever.

Maybe you too have spotted these anti-Proposition 1 signs in recent days -- saw a couple in my Northwest Dallas neighborhood this morning, spied one near Fitzhugh and Capitol Avenues last night, and we found this one earlier today near One Arts Plaza downtown. And, sure, if you know what...

By Robert Wilonsky

April 20, 2009

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Maybe you too have spotted these anti-Proposition 1 signs in recent days -- saw a couple in my Northwest Dallas neighborhood this morning, spied one near Fitzhugh and Capitol Avenues last night, and we found this one earlier today near One Arts Plaza downtown. And, sure, if you know what they mean and who's behind 'em -- Dupree Scovell and his band of "young professionals" who support Mayor Tom Leppert's city-owned convention center hotel -- they make perfect sense. Then again, you could end up having the same reaction as the missus: "What the what?

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