It’s hard to know who’s ahead in the mayor’s race, but over the past couple of weeks Steve Cho’s name has surged to the top of poles around Fremont. The Cho campaign must have the longest ladder in town, because his people have gotten his campaign signs way up high on lots of light poles on lots of street corners.

Problem is some of those poles are on private property and not everyone is happy to have Cho’s blue and green signs overhead. Take for example John Oxford. He said he asked Cho last week to remove a sign from the light pole on the grounds of the Big O Tires he manages at the corner of Blacow and Fremont Boulevard. Oxford said the Cho campaign promised to take down the sign within 24 hours, but never followed through. In fact, a few days later, campaign signs for two other candidates appeared below Cho’s, Oxford said.

That was all Oxford could take. He got himself an extension ladder and had the signs taken down.

“It’s not just that he didn’t ask permission,” Oxford said of Cho. “(It’s that) I’m not supporting him anyway.”

P.S. I’ll be at Cho’s campaign headquarters grand opening this evening.