The Selling of Exeter

We should congratulate our forward thinking selectmen (Dan, BH and Julie) for having recently passed the Exeter Advertising Policy. They called it a sponsorship policy, but we all know that the banners have nothing to do with sponsorship.  They're advertising plain and simple.

Now businesses located within and outside of Exeter can pay to advertise their services on huge banners to be hung all across our historic town; and oh what revenue they will bring to the town.

Initially, advertising locations are limited to only our beautiful parks and recreation fields.  But as long as we are going to commercialize the Town, we shouldn't stop with just Parks & Rec. We have a lot of town vehicles that drive all around Exeter. Why not sell advertising space on DPW trucks and vans?  In the winter, we could paint advertising on the snow plows advertising wood pellets.  DPW drives those sidewalk plows all over town, so why not have them fly a small banner from the back of the tractor advertising Dunkin' Donuts? We could even put those little billboards that you see on taxis on our Police cruisers! Heck, let's hang banners advertising McDonald's on the front of the Town Hall. Maybe we can even have the new town-owned drone fly around town pulling a banner like the airplanes do.

Yessir, we have to hand it to our selectmen.  I suggest we do that at the next election.