Posted on 01/09/2019 4:59:43 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Officials in Scottsdale, Ariz., voted this week to halt work on a mural honoring the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) amid concerns over “protocol” and complaints from neighbors.
The “Maverick Mural” was approved by the Scottsdale Development Review Board last month, but city council members voted 5-2 on Tuesday to review that decision, according to the Arizona Republic.
City Councilwoman Kathy Littlefield raised concerns that local artist Aaron Bass and architect Tommy Suchart did not go through proper public art processes to get the mural approved, insisting to the paper that her opposition was not political.
“I didn't do this because it was a mural of John McCain," Littlefield said. “Everybody else in Scottsdale has to go through public art process, and it weakens the entire public art process throughout the city if one person doesn't have to go through the process."
The mural, which is set to be 30 feet tall and 120 feet wide, would be a portrait of the late senator comprised of thousands of photos of iconic Arizona images, including copper, cattle and cotton.
Littlefield has also clashed with other city officials over whether the mural can be classified as public art, and therefore, whether it needs to be approved by a local arts non-profit in addition to city officials.
A neighbor whose owns the parking lot adjacent to the mural also raised concerns about the project’s scope, calling it “rather enormous in scope.”
"If you stood at the parking lot and looked at the thing, you couldn't see anything to do at all with Senator McCain,” Dewey Schade told the Arizona Republic in September.
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The first thing that came to my mind was paint ball gun.
Can you imagine the “tagging” it will generate?
His reputation was created. He was not as good as they made him out to be.
The mural, which is set to be 30 feet tall and 120 feet wide,
Plenty of space to take the leak for all of us.
“The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Not, in the teeniest way an (open borders scoundrel) mccain fan, but I do suspect that Ms. Littlefield is lying the uber lie here.
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Personally, I would honor McPain by naming a new landfill or sewage treatment plant in Arizona after him.
BARF!!!! McNasty doesn’t deserve a mural wall.
He despised and lied to Arizonans over and over again. He is SCUM.
I hope the mural dies under the weight of endless controversy.
Is it a protocol against honoring nasty self-absorbed posers?
Paint it horizontally so the doggies can tag it too
I’d go for it if it was behind a bunch of urinals somewhere.
I was going to post the exact same thing!
Looks hideous; just like the man it represents.
Looks like Big Brother from 1984.
They should just settle for a urinal.
I was in Scottsdale last week and saw this monstrosity and wanted to hurl.
I was surprised there was that much affection for the SOB. But maybe there isn’t.
Five crashed airplanes?
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