I like this guy.
Posted on 07/30/2020 2:02:09 AM PDT by conservative98
An outspoken Staten Island artist says he’s being targeted by the city over his pro-cop views — and his less-than-flattering banner of Mayor Bill de Blasio holding up Lady Liberty’s severed head.
“The mayor knows me as not being his biggest supporter,” Scott LoBaido told The Post on Wednesday.
The NYC Department of Transportation last week sent LoBaido a cease and desist letter regarding a blue line he painted on a Hylan Boulevard median outside the 122nd NYPD precinct in New Dorp.
The thin blue line, which Lobaido painted as a show of support to law enforcement, is in violation of city rules prohibiting “defacement of any street by painting, printing, writing or attaching any advertisement..,” the letter states.
It gave the conservative firebrand until Wednesday to issue a response explaining the steps he’d taken to remove the paint.
But LoBaido said: “They don’t even deserve that…”
“This letter isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.”
LoBaido claimed he’s being discriminated against by the city for his right-leaning views and that he intends to fight the letter and sue.
And he suspects the mayor was roiled by the banner he briefly put up on the Staten Island Expressway last week, showing Hizzoner smirking in a Che Guevara shirt while holding Lady Liberty’s bloody head.
In a video to his 12,000 Instagram followers he questioned the difference between his artwork and de Blasio’s “Black Lives Matter” mural painted outside Trump Tower, asking: “did the mayor get this letter?”
“I don’t have an issue with Black Lives Matter artwork but I’m doing my artwork and it’s supporting the men and women in blue,” LoBaido told The Post.
To the mayor, he said: “When you take your artwork off the street, I’ll take my artwork off the street.”
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I like this guy.
If I recall correctly, someone on FR was asking how to paint a long blue line quickly - and got excellent responses. I approve!
The thin blue line, which Lobaido painted as a show of support to law enforcement, is in violation of city rules prohibiting “defacement of any street by painting, printing, writing or attaching any advertisement..,”
So, ad a matter of fact, is the BLM painted on the street at Trump Tower. DeBlasio never applied for nor received DOT permission to put it there AS THE LAW REQUIRES.
I like it. It looks good.
The laws pertain to us, using the system against us
The laws pertain to us, using the system against us
They can earn support back by throwing the “bad” ones under the bus.
Yeah I think it was last week. Could be him.
Is that Charlie Gasparino?
So much for freedom of expression with these commies. Do it anyway,anywhere,anytime,baby.
The mayor defaced the street with the blm nonsense. The mayor broke the law.
This is where I live.
South shore of staten island.
Massive support for cops.
Hatred of bill.
La loi, c'est moi.
THIS guy. :)
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