— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
The SF Examiner is reporting that our beautiful, litter-less city is now going after our last remaining urban eyesore:
City officials want to issue “fix-it” tickets or warnings to drivers whose trucks are covered with graffiti to help abolish the urban eyesores.
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“There’s no law right now that says you have to abate the graffiti,” said Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, who sits on The City’s Graffiti Advisory Board and helped coordinate the program. “These trucks are ugly. They’re urban blight. They make neighborhoods look abandoned.”
The city wants to encourage truck owners to paint their vehicles that lovely military green that we see covering utility boxes all over the city, as they apparently are more difficult to vandalize, and issue citations to those who don't. Naturally, the city failed to recognize that many of these trucks are covered in commissioned graffiti for the specific reason to fight against random tags (the Examiner piece even features a truck painted by Reyes to highlight the issue). What will be allowed as 'legitimate' truck art and disallowed under the law? Certainly the opinion of the director of Public Works is already biased against sanctioned mobile murals. Can't wait to see how this one goes down…
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For those of you that aren’t familiar with Mo here’s a little backround.
“The street cleaners told The Chronicle that Mohammed Nuru, the city’s deputy director of public works, and Jonathan Gomwalk, executive director of the San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners, or SLUG, had applied pressure to vote and electioneer for Newsom by saying their jobs would be in jeopardy unless Newsom won the mayor’s race.”
“By doing so, SLUG, at a minimum, violated … (a city law that) prohibits
organizations receiving funds from the City and County of San Francisco to use
any of those funds to participate in, support, or attempt to influence a
political campaign for any candidate or ballot measure,”
I think mister law and order needs to read up on the 1st. amendment.