San Jose Adult Entertainment: NeoCons Take to the Billboards in Free Speech Battles
The pair won a landmark billboard case in Oregon in 2006. After spending 12 years fighting that state’s billboard law Alan Herson persuaded the Oregon’s Supreme Court to throw it out. Herson claims San Carlos’’s ban is politically motivated:
The Bay Area is a liberal place, and liberals tend not to like free speech put up by other people. I have a hunch if that sign said ‘Support Nancy Pelosi,’ it would be up by now. They hate Palin. They hate her more than anything.
But it feels more like the Hersons are pimping Palin’s picture to get rich both from suing the city and then turning their political billboard into a profit-making venture. If the Hersons win their suit against the city, Sarah’s huge smiling visage could legally be replaced by commercial advertising. Said Alan Herson: