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San Francisco to spend over $600K to paint over George Washington mural some considered offensive
staradvertiser.com ^ | July 4, 2019 Updated 2:12 p.m. | AP

Posted on 07/05/2019 1:21:37 PM PDT by Syncro

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To: Syncro

It is sad. I could paint over it with two gallons of paint not spending over half a million.


41 posted on 07/05/2019 3:05:39 PM PDT by Citizen Soldier
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To: Madam Theophilus

Good points

The painter did want to show the USA in a bad light imo

It is historic and as I said earlier it should be removed with the wall behind it and put in a museum


42 posted on 07/05/2019 3:06:34 PM PDT by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: FLT-bird

But not Robert Byrd buildings and streets named after the former KKK leader.


43 posted on 07/05/2019 3:12:21 PM PDT by Engedi (ui)
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To: Kipp

Yeah, that does sound like a lot of dough for the job. Maybe they could just glob some of their street poop all over it. That would cover it up....


44 posted on 07/05/2019 3:12:57 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Kipp

You need to use special government approved anti-racism sealant primer - extremely expensive, since no white people are involved in the development, manufacture or distribution.


45 posted on 07/05/2019 3:33:52 PM PDT by enumerated
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To: ronnie raygun
I have friends and family there...not to mention the founder of FR lives there.

You want them all to die????

46 posted on 07/05/2019 3:38:52 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: FLT-bird

“...and when they started demonizing the South and its leaders and symbols starting in the 1990s.”

It started long before the 1990s...

Some of my family hailed from the South - so I was always keenly aware of the negative stereotypes on TV and in the movies. In the westerns, the bad guys that got hanged were always southerners and the good guys that were the sheriff or who made up the posses were always northerners. In the sitcoms Southerners have always been depicted as corrupt and/or stupid.

I see a lot of anti southern bias here on FR as well.


47 posted on 07/05/2019 3:55:00 PM PDT by enumerated
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To: ntnychik

Here’s the challenge:

Hey, leftists, spend that $600,000 to fight global climate change!!
You can’t say no or your fight is over forever.


48 posted on 07/05/2019 4:00:12 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we afought for theire finished.)
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To: Paladin2
Once "reparations" start, they will be with us in perpetuity. Nothing will ever be enough.

Funny. That's the exact thing said about blackmailers being paid off by victims. Because it is true.

49 posted on 07/05/2019 4:07:16 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we afought for theire finished.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

So true about Haley, but Trump vouches for her.


50 posted on 07/05/2019 4:20:33 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: WashingtonFire

Ourselves, and also poor voter choices


51 posted on 07/05/2019 4:24:00 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Syncro
$600,000 to paint over a mural. Insane!

Paint, supplies, and labor should easily be under $10,000. The other $590,000 should be considered graft and corruption.

52 posted on 07/05/2019 4:29:54 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (Freeper formerly known as WMarshal.......)
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To: Syncro
Erasing History..... That's what the communist always do... Next comes the young folks riseing up and killing all the rich people and tradesmen of our country.. That is if they can manage to get our guns away from us...
53 posted on 07/05/2019 4:30:17 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: wildcard_redneck
I may have been wrong about my post considering $590,000 to be pure graft. They're probably going to replace it with this:


54 posted on 07/05/2019 4:34:30 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (Freeper formerly known as WMarshal.......)
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To: Engedi

That would be ALL of West Virginia, Engedi.


55 posted on 07/05/2019 4:34:30 PM PDT by Walrus ("I can't spare this (Trump). He fights.")
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To: unread

Bit by bit this coming, background check by background check.”Sensible gun law” by “sensible gun law.”


56 posted on 07/05/2019 4:36:11 PM PDT by sport
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To: Syncro
And yet the ©Г@P remains on the streets. Priorities of madmen.
57 posted on 07/05/2019 4:37:22 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON)
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To: Syncro

The Taliban will do it for free.


58 posted on 07/05/2019 4:58:43 PM PDT by Soros Billions (Gore is a pussy, Hillary : There's a man for ya)
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To: ronnie raygun

I CANT WAIT UNTIL THEY GET THE BIG ONE, there is promise in the past few days.


Seriously?

So on another thread, someone said Freepers don’t wish ill of anyone due to natural disaster. Your explicit post is proof that they were wrong. Some Freepers actually do.

Tiresome and insensitive that you are gleefully waiting for the big one. How is this different from the intolerance of the radical left??

Can’t wait?

Gee, hope you find a new forum from which to post as FR is in California too. Hope you have no need of tech because servers will be affected. No IRA or 401K with stocks—market will crash. Fresh produce? Well, not from California.

Totally thoughtless comment...And yes, I have CONSERVATIVE family and friends in the San Fran area.

Wonder how you would feel if I wished a flood, tornado, fire, or earthquake on your neighborhood. But then you don’t say where you are from.

Fine, be pissed at the politics, but remember, there are good people (EVEN FREEPERS) living in California and other Blue states. They live there for a variety of reasons. Don’t wish them destruction.


59 posted on 07/05/2019 5:02:32 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (#KATE'SWALL Build it Now)
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To: Syncro

What else is sad is how much good the $600,000 could do to help people in need, fix things, etc. What a waste!


60 posted on 07/05/2019 5:03:34 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (#KATE'SWALL Build it Now)
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