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Congressman wants Hunter charged with theft of painting
The San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | January 9, 2017 | Gary Warth

Posted on 01/10/2017 1:44:49 AM PST by monkapotamus

A Missouri congressman is demanding criminal charges against Rep. Duncan Hunter who yanked a student’s controversial painting off the U.S. Capitol walls Friday, according to the Washington Post.

Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., said his staff met Monday with members of the Capitol Police to press theft charges against Hunter, R-Alpine, who removed the painting Friday and delivered it to Clay’s office as he left a Republican conference meeting where the artwork was discussed.

“He had no right to take that picture down,” Clay told the Post Monday just off the House floor. “It’s thievery.”

The painting, by a recent high school graduate from Clay’s district, depicts a scene of civil unrest inspired by the 2014 events in Ferguson, Mo., and other recent protests against police led by African Americans. Several figures are depicted as animals, and some pro-police activists have said the rendering evokes derogatory images of police as pigs.

(Excerpt) Read more at sandiegouniontribune.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: california; duncanhunter; lacyclay; lookwhohatescops; missouri; whatshisfrnick
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1 posted on 01/10/2017 1:44:49 AM PST by monkapotamus
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To: monkapotamus

Sadly, Hunter was the ONLY one with any BALLS to take down that piece of CRAP!


2 posted on 01/10/2017 1:50:25 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: monkapotamus

Ole Lacy Clay gonna get a beat down.


3 posted on 01/10/2017 1:51:03 AM PST by Cowboy Bob
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To: monkapotamus

If he had no right to take it down, where did she get the right to put it up outside her office?


4 posted on 01/10/2017 1:56:49 AM PST by Fhios
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To: Ann Archy

Should have left a crucifix in a jar of urine in its place.

All would have been good.


5 posted on 01/10/2017 2:01:16 AM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder")
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To: monkapotamus

Jr. Hunter gave Clay a compliment the other day, I wonder if he cares to walk that back now that he’s being slandered by this racist thug as a “thief.”


6 posted on 01/10/2017 2:02:23 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: monkapotamus
Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo

Surprise, surprise


7 posted on 01/10/2017 2:03:20 AM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder")
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To: monkapotamus

Wait, what?

You met with Capitol Police and THEY DID NOT HAVE PIG HEADS AND SHOOT YOU IN COLD BLOOD???!?

Such irony.


8 posted on 01/10/2017 2:03:23 AM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP LIED TO ME!!!! ....He said I'd get sick of winning.... AND I'M NOT SICK OF WINNING YET!!!!)
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To: Daffynition

Figgers.


9 posted on 01/10/2017 2:04:10 AM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP LIED TO ME!!!! ....He said I'd get sick of winning.... AND I'M NOT SICK OF WINNING YET!!!!)
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10 posted on 01/10/2017 2:05:52 AM PST by Daffynition ( "The New PTSD: Post-Trump Stress Disorder")
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To: monkapotamus

these people just keep nagging. nag nag nag. That’s all they’re good for.


11 posted on 01/10/2017 2:10:29 AM PST by brucedickinson
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To: monkapotamus

He didn’t steal it, YOU HAVE IT. These people are morons.


12 posted on 01/10/2017 2:11:55 AM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: Daffynition

Clay should be reprimanded.


13 posted on 01/10/2017 2:12:47 AM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: monkapotamus

We’re going to remember this Clay, and when the time comes....


14 posted on 01/10/2017 2:16:49 AM PST by Bullish (May as well just rename Hollywood---> Hypocrite city)
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To: monkapotamus

Clay is a doofus


15 posted on 01/10/2017 2:25:07 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: monkapotamus

Everything one needs to know about the democrat party is right here with this very stupid painting depicting Cops as pigs.
These fools are disgusting,
Next time one of these dems are assaulted they need to call some BLM puke


16 posted on 01/10/2017 2:27:41 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Her ass belongs in prison along with the jive ass punk obammy.)
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To: Bullish
We’re going to remember this Clay, and when the time comes....

That there is pretty funny. You obviously have no idea who Clay Lacy is, or where Missouri's First Congressional district is located.
But you feel free to come on out and help campaign for a replacement - they'll love you in Black Jack or Jennings, or better still in the north St. Louis city neighborhoods.

17 posted on 01/10/2017 2:28:28 AM PST by liberty_lvr (My personal likes and dislikes are totally irrelevant to the salvation of this nation.)
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To: Lazamataz
Remember this?

Painting of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington in ladies underwear.

CHICAGO — A painting of the late Chicago Mayor Harold Washington dressed only in women's frilly underwear was returned to its student artist Thursday, 24 hours after angry city councilmen ripped it from an art school wall and police impounded it, saying it could incite rioting.

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18 posted on 01/10/2017 2:30:12 AM PST by Liz
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To: monkapotamus

Funny (not). One of the left’s favorite tactics is removing signs, etc, when they disagree with the message. They think it’s perfectly acceptable to remove campaign signs from people’s yards. Or break stained glass windows they don’t like. Or pull down flags.

Hunter didn’t destroy or deface the “art”, he gave it back to this bobble-headed Lacy.

I wish Congressional Rs would take a page from Trump’s playbook and fight fire with fire.


19 posted on 01/10/2017 2:31:11 AM PST by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Clay continued. “Any black parent would tell you that they have to have this conversation with their children about police and how to act around them, so that’s the conversation we need to be having here. Not about taking some kid’s picture off the wall — it should be about, how do we change these attitudes and improve the relationships between police and the black community?”

Perhaps “we” start by not physically attacking the police, or assassinating them?


20 posted on 01/10/2017 2:33:56 AM PST by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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