ABSTRACT
Taxpayers for Vincent (TFV), a group supporting Roland Vincent for the Los Angeles City Council, contracted with a political sign service company to construct and post signs supporting his candidacy. The company designed the cardboard signs to be draped over the cross-wires supporting utility poles and then stapled at the bottom. In accordance with the ordinance, city workers removed Vincent's signs, and the TFV group brought suit, alleging an unconstitutional abridgment of its First Amendment speech rights. The TFV organization argued that the ordinance was both facially unconstitutional and unconstitutional as applied to the group's particular situation. In the course of a political campaign, many candidates, parties, and interests must employ the most efficient, influential, and economical methods for communicating their message to the public. The medium and method chosen by TFV entailed relatively small expense and allowed it to reach a wide audience; to foreclose such options, the dissenters argued, subordinated speech to subjective assessments and unfounded suppositions.
