Neighbors rally as Reagan statue in Balboa Island home patio of its sculptor is defaced

latimes ^ | 08/17/2023 | SUSAN HOFFMAN

[ChicagoConservative27]

The vandalism last weekend of a sculpture of Republican Party icon Ronald Reagan that’s long greeted passersby of artist Miriam Baker’s home on Balboa Island’s South Bayfront has generated outcry from her neighbors and friends.

Baker first learned of the incident from her nephew, who at about 9 a.m. Sunday discovered the artwork, which stands next to some potted geraniums on her front patio, had been defaced by someone using what appeared to have been foam insulation.

“It’s incomprehensible that there is a person that nasty around that would do it out of meanness and small mindedness,” said Baker, who added she didn’t think the vandalism was done for political reasons.

“I think it was one person, not kids, who came prepared with the intent to deface art,” she said.

Baker is a respected sculptor whose work can be found in collections in the National Portrait Gallery, Stanford University, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and other institutions across the country. Her studio encompasses the lower level of her two-story home, and much of her work can be seen through its front window.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Mao's red guard at it again?

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

... “meanness and small mindedness,” a specialty of the political Left.

[GOPJ]

LOL - more likely the ‘oh so open-minded’ thugs of the democrat party...

[Red Badger]

[eyeamok]

The answer is to leave your own artwork, like maybe the charred remains of a vicious vandal.

[budj]

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Downtown Seattle.
Patriots know what to do.

[gundog]

“It’s incomprehensible that there is a person that nasty around that would do it out of meanness and small mindedness,” said Baker, who added she didn’t think the vandalism was done for political reasons.

I guess she doesn’t get out very much.

[cowboyusa]

Beat me to it.

[hanamizu]

... “meanness and small mindedness,” a specialty of the political Left.”

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There’s a YouTube yesterday showing masked protestors, maybe five, blocking a pro-Trump caravan in NYC. One guy was especially mouthy. Few, if any of his sentences lacked the word ‘f**k”. The Trump people were smiling, and seemed happy and this guy was just filled to the brim with hate.

[Fiji Hill]

Balboa Island and Newport Harbor are Red (as in Red State). On Independence Day, I went there to watch a boat parade, and many of the boats were flying Trump and MAGA flags.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "...this guy was just filled to the brim with hate."

Agreed. That's really all they have left. Left.

[tophat9000]

Not political reasons?.....are people missing the noose around the neck?

[ZOOKER]

Not surprising at all.

When hardline Muslims take over an area, the first thing they do is deface or obliterate any competing cultural or religious sites. The same thing happens with totalitarian regimes.
No tolerance at all, some would say.

[Albion Wilde]

"...this guy was just filled to the brim with hate."

Agreed. That's really all they have left. Left.

The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but
the heart of the fool to the left.
—Ecclesiastes 10:2

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

And some verses later: "There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler....."

[Albion Wilde]

The temporal ruler(s), indeed. What a mess.