Vandalized Election Posters

Tomorrow the people of Baden-Württemberg are called to the polls, and so is Red Baron. The state elections in Germany's southwest start a super-election year.

Due to Corona, the election campaign was moderate. There are no rallies, no discussion with the parties on Freiburg's Kaiser-Josef-Straße, and surprisingly few election posters on lamp poles.

Here are some photos of vandalized election posters.

Manuel Herder, great-great-great-grandson of Bartholomäus Herder, the founder of the still active publishing house in Freiburg, is running in the state elections for the Christian Democrats (CDU).

Manuel Herder and Edward M. Alford at the Greiffenegg-Schlössle in 2011

I know Manuel personally, for, in 2011,   we addended a dinner at the Greiffenegg-Schlössle honoring US Consul General Edward M. Alford. Later in 2014, Manuel gave us, members of the Museumsgesellschaft, a guided tour of his publishing house.

Manuel, showing his self-cartoon.

He actually said he likes that voters see him differently and wrote, "Next year, I'll be in my mid-fifties. I have built up talented technical and managerial staff at the publishing house."

Manuel Herder with an added gloriole. Do it like me: join in.

"This has given me the freedom to become actively involved in politics. I want to give something back to our country and its people."

Huh, content. The main thing is that the photo is correct.

Manuel is not the only one trying to start a new political career. Perceived, Professor Dr. Johannes Gröger, running for the Free Voters, has more lamp pole posters in town than any other candidate.

 

The Free Democrats (FDP), traditionally strong in Germany's southwest, present two young psychedelics (?). Their poster is decorated with stickers in English.

What will be the outcome of this state election? While it was clear from the beginning that the Greens would again get the majority of the votes im Ländle (Baden-Württemberg), the CDU will only end up as a poor runner-up this time. Lately, three lobbying cases in conjunction with corruption cast a poor light on the Christian deputies in the federal parliament and will cost them votes in the coming elections.

That shit policy has been going on for 50 years.

The unfriendly stickers on the CDU poster denounce lobbyism and coal burning. 

Expulsion &FRONTEX (European Border and Coast Guard Agency)

That shit policy has been going on for 50 years.

The three deputies of the Bundestag were forced by their colleagues to resign, but the damage has been done. CDU's top candidate Susanne Eisenmann (ironman), is challenging incumbent Governor and father of the Ländle Winfried Kretschmann of the Greens in vain.

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