A re-election billboard for Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens has been vandalized.
The billboard is located on Dougall Ave. near the E.C. Row Expressway and according to Dilkens was defaced with a black paint or powder like substance.
"Those billboard are about $1,200 just for the production cost of the paper that goes up there," says Dilkens. "It's not like knocking over a $10 election sign, it's actually significant vandalism — so we will report that to police and we will be working with the provider of the billboards to look at enhanced security for that area as well."
It appears someone defaced one of Mayor @drewdilkens election billboards. This billboard is located on Dougall Ave. near the EC Row Expressway. #cklw pic.twitter.com/yCssASpxz0
— Rob Hindi (@rhindi800) September 21, 2018
Dilkens says he understands it's an election but says defacing the billboard is vandalism of private property.
"At the end of the day, we just ask that everyone respects the democratic process," he says. "We'll all have a chance to have our say and put our ideas forward and at the end of the day it's up for the residents to choose who they think will represent them best. All that will happen, we'll end up replacing the billboard and we'll have enhanced security at all three sites where we have the large billboards to be able to catch anyone who tries to do that again."
Dilkens says he has three large billboards in the city and to his knowledge that was the only one vandalized.
— with files from AM800's Teresinha Medeiros