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

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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.

“From the police point of view, it’s a matter of free speech and there’s nothing they can do about it,” she said.

The controversial governor recently grabbed national headlines for melting down in an unhinged, expletive-riddled voicemail he left for a state lawmaker he believed had called him “racist.”

LePage’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday afternoon.

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  1. The people aren’t stupid - they know a mini-Trump when they see one.

    When will the media wake up and start calling them out on their lies and bigotry? LePage, Trump, Christi, and any Republican that stands up and supports them. They should all be required to wear white hoods when speaking in Public…in the interest of honesty and transparency.

    Will lying Donald release his complete draft record, his taxes of the last 10 years, and his medical records showing that he’s really a very sick cow.

  2. TBH that looks more like Scalia than LePage

  3. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    Great likeness…and a bit more refined than ‘graffiti’.

  4. It’s the hood that makes you see it that way.

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