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The City of Portland doesnt 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 citys 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
(22,165 posts)Glad they wont remove it
sarae
(3,284 posts)Warpy
(111,261 posts)That's a rare enough combination to justify keeping it there.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)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/