"Senator Joe Simitian: Your cell phone law sucks" Billboard

"Senator Joe Simitian: Your cell phone law sucks." [via Mercury News]

That's the blunt message on a large billboard off Highway 101 south of the IKEA store in East Palo Alto. Who is behind this? A fellow named Grant Paulson of Pleasanton, who despises California's hands-free cell phone law, authored by Simitian and in place since last summer.

Paulson paid $10,000 for the billboard, money he considers well spent, though many drivers seem to find the verbose, 75-word message a distracting nuisance. Paulson, 47, said Tuesday he doesn't like the cell phone law because he finds it hard to hear calls on hands-free devices and he considers the rule an attack on personal freedoms. He's pushing for a statewide ballot measure to repeal the law.

Picture from the LA Times.

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