City Won’t Remove Graffiti Of ‘Racist’ Maine Gov. LePage Wearing KKK Hood

[DonViejo]

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The City of Portland doesn’t plan to remove a massive work of graffiti depicting Maine Gov. Paul LePage wearing full Ku Klux Klan garb and labeling him a “racist, homophobe, moron.”

The work is part of another piece covering the entire 100-foot wall along the city’s Eastern Promenade, which urges viewers to “dump LePage” in 6-foot-tall letters, the Portland Press Herald reported Tuesday.

But city officials are in no hurry to get rid of the depiction of the governor. After persistent issues with vandalization on the wall, the Portland Water District turned it into a public canvas for street art more than a decade ago, according to the paper.

Portland city spokeswoman Jessica Grondin told the Herald that officials only remove graffiti if it contains hate speech aimed at a specific group.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/paul-lepage-graffiti-portland-kkk-hood

[etherealtruth]

1. The (sane/ decent) resident of Portland must be horrified by their twit governor

Glad they wont remove it

[sarae]

2. I think it enhances the landscape.

[Warpy]

3. Nicely painted and spelled correctly

That's a rare enough combination to justify keeping it there.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

4. Great mural

but this article says someone (not the city of Portland) painted over it.


http://www.pressherald.com/2016/09/12/our-view-during-debate-over-portland-lepage-mural-free-speech-flourishes/