Comments about ‘Rush Limbaugh billboard pits Reagan Outdoor ad industry against Utah cities’

How is this news???

Gosh I just think Rush is neat. he really appeals to religous people for being so nice.

Get rid of ALL the billboards.

They make the whole state "Trashy" looking.

Nothing like Rush's mug on a billboard to bring liberals out of the woodwork calling for more intrusion into private business.

I don't think rush is the person you want to advertise anywhere.

He is so annoying, why does anyone listen to him?

I think it is awesome to have the greatest radio talk show host on a billboard in SLC. SLC has become a wimpy progressive place.

Because we want to listen to him!

"Hoffman believes Reagan and other billboard companies are using the law to gain a business advantage."

Duh!!! Someone needs a review in basic business practice. Do any of your reporters really understand the real world and the people who live in them?

Every thing along the roads are eyesores, even the over-sized hotels and new towers being erected in the state. At one time you could enjoy the view of the valley and its mountains, now all you see are windows and aluminum blocking the natural scenery.

One solution is to force the high rises to give the sign companies in perpetuity and ownership comparable wall space on the side of the hotel to replace the bill boards. Many cities are using this method rather than individually poled signs.

The GOP is looking at SLC for its 2012 presidential convention, and it needs these billboards to detract the GOP visitors from looking at our air quality.

This issue has nothing to do with the content of the billboard. It is a terrible headline and should be redone. The issue is about billboard companies getting preferential treatment because of the amount of money they contribute to legislators.

Follow the money and you'll find RUSH!

Call your legislator and tell them to repeal the ridiculous laws that protect billboards. While you're at it, tell them that they work FOR THE PEOPLE, not the Reagan sign company.

The billboard lobby has the best laws money can buy, literally.

Ask yourself: Have you ever purchased a product or service (or decided to vote for a candidate), because of a billboard? Let's boycott any company that uses a billboard for advertising!

There is no need for the extensive protections for billboards. No other property enjoys such special protection, and the bill board companies bully local governments by threatening them with lawsuits.

CALL YOUR LEGISLATOR TODAY!

I think you meant that the GOP needs to "distract" visitors from looking at the air quality, not "detract." Keep working on the grammar, it'll come.

Ogden Nash once channeled his inner Kilmer and penned this bit of doggerel: "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed unless the billboards fall, I think I'll never see tree at all." Somewhere Lady Bird Johnson is spinning in her grave. Her Highway Beautification Act was intended to eliminate roadside billboards. Instead, it morphed into a billboard preservation and subsidy act, one of the greatest perversions of public policy ever via the law of unintended consequences. Every policy maker should study this noble failure for its lessons.

Those commenters above who think this is about Rush are missing the point. It's about an industry that has inordinate sway in politics and that in asserting its own propery rights imposes on the rights of others.

What does Rush Limbaugh have to do with this? What is on the billboard is completely irrelevant (of course as long as it is legal) to the issue at hand.

Leave Rush out of it and talk about the rights of billboard owners to control what others can do with their property... or with the concept of property owners using their property in a manner that damages the value of someone else's property.

That is the issue at hand... not the content of the billboard.

Let the free market decide this issue. If enough people are outraged at the heavy-handedness of Reagan Outdoor Advertising then let them organize and boycott every product or service that advertises on a questionable billboard. In particular, vow not to vote for any political candidate that advertises on a billboard in an offensive location. This approach is more efficient and effective than the political solution. It should also serve warning to any billboard company that they may experience a beatdown.

I've always felt that outdoor billboards detract from the physical beauty of SLC. This billboard raises that to a whole new level. What a blight!

Rush on a billboard in SLC. How fitting for the lemmings who need somebody telling them what to do and what to think 24 hrs a day.
Rush=The king of the money puppets, making sure that republicans do away with any independent thought, make the wealthy more wealthy at the expense of the poor and middle class workers. Keep voting and thinking against your best interests. Remember how great the Bush years were to you and our country. Remember?
YUK