The two-sided political sign had been altered on both sides, Lee said, adding that the sign has been damaged before.
On the weekend of Oct. 4, Lee said, he found the sign crumpled up and thrown in his neighbor’s yard.
“You’ve got to be able to express your political views freely,” he said.
Since the vandalism incident, Lee has started taking the sign inside his house every night.
“It makes you feel a little intimidated,” he said.
Resident Debbie Munsey also brings in her signs every night.
As she walked with her dog Saturday morning, Munsey noticed that her sign was vandalized, along with her neighbors’.
“I thought it was a really ugly thing for our neighborhood to wake up to,” she said.
Munsey removed the letters, then returned to her house and printed out notes to her neighbors saying that she removed an S from their signs so they wouldn’t have to see them, she said.
She left the notes, along with the letter cutouts, on her neighbors’ front doorsteps.
Munsey later went to the Alhambra Democratic Club and purchased 16 more Obama signs.
“My answer to the vandals is to put two signs up,” she said.
Since the incident, Munsey said she has begun volunteering with the Obama campaign.
“It made me angry and energized to volunteer,” she said.
Police are investigating the vandalism, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said.
The signs weren’t damaged other than being altered, he said.
Lorenz believes the vandalism incidents were politically motivated.
“Also, it could be someone trying to be funny,” he said. “In any case, people shouldn’t be doing it.”
