Why are signs restricted, not letters?

My husband and I were told we had to take our candidate-for-mayor sign down. By law, you can only have signs up so far ahead of the election.

The week before we were told to take it down there was a letter in our Star newspaper to vote for a new mayor.

That letter was written by our other candidate. So why was the letter allowed but not our sign in our yard?

Carol Daily

Coulee Dam

Editor’s response: Laws about outside election signs do not govern letters to the editor.