Free the posters

by James Bush
Seattle Weekly
March 4, 1999

Organizers call it "Free Speech Seattle," but the effort to allow posters on Seattle lamp posts and utility poles has a new, official name: Initiative 46. Backers of restoring the city's cheapest form of advertising are now only 19,000 signatures away from putting the issue before voters. The 180-day-long petition campaign (the clock started ticking on February 25) will feature benefit concerts and a voter registration drive.