MY GOVERNOR IS A LUNATIC ... pic in Tucson made me smile

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25. Wow! I'm thrilled that so many people liked the photos & message :) Thanks!

Ok, after getting up this afternoon and reading posts suggesting it was photo-shopped, and that the buildings, roofs, etc. aren't the same, I decided to go back over there and take more pics from more angles (hoping to clarify/settle the questions.)

What a nice couple I met when I asked if I could park in front of their home (the gravel area is on their property) and the street is narrow and winding which doesn't allow parking except for driveways, and private parking on personal property. The "Mrs." said yes. I told her what I was doing and that I loved the sign, and she was in agreement. I said it shouldn't be more than 10 minutes to walk the couple of blocks and come back.

After returning, I went to thank them again and say I was leaving, when she remembers a column in our local paper, on this very sign just a few days earlier! What a coincidence! I hadn't read the paper, and didn't know about it. It was published May 19th. Link is here:

[font size=4]Steller: Broadway wall sends political message, welcome or not[/font]

"When your back wall faces a busy urban thoroughfare, what do you do with it?
Most people do nothing. They leave bare block.
But one couple who owns property along East Broadway views their back wall as a canvas for political messages.”

Snip

“My child is an honor student. My governor is a lunatic,” is what’s painted on the wall now, below smaller lettering that says, “Support public education.” Many people wrongly assume that Betts Putnam-Hidalgo is the owner, because the wall sported a campaign message for her when she ran for TUSD school board last year.

Putnam-Hidalgo does paint the wall sometimes — this current message is her handiwork — but it isn’t her wall. When I arrived on their street, which parallels Broadway, Monday evening to identify the owners, I was surprised to realize when they drove up that I knew them already.

Joy Soler and Paul Gattone, well-known Tucson leftists who also own Revolutionary Grounds coffee house on North Fourth Avenue, own the house and the notorious wall. A couple of times, police or other officials have stopped to talk to them about it.”

Paul Gattone, an attorney says, "It’s our wall, and it’s protected speech.”

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It's an interesting article that goes through the various messages that have been painted and then changed to something else. The "My child is an honor student, my governor is not" was inspired by a slogan used against Scott Walker.

The writer, Tim Steller, interviewed some neighbors, heard different opinions and gave me some things to think about. It was a pretty good column, and I really thank the "Mrs." for remembering it and sharing it with me. What great timing that was.

Now I have to upload my photos and see which ones I want to add, although maybe it's not needed now, with this column verifying everything... I'll have a look and see.