ABC 7 reports about local granola-munchers getting exactly what they asked for and then not liking it.
Community Outraged Over Mural Painted on D.C. House
Veronica Jackson, the woman whose house it’s painted on says, “It’s a boxer girl. It’s about strength, it’s about creativity…”
Jackson says the painting came to be when artist Lisa Marie Thallhammer received a grant from the city to do a wall mural. “She needed a place. I provided a place and it’s been fabulous. I come around the corner to come home at night and boo.. it just makes me feel so good,” she said.
Still, some neighbors say they’re not thrilled with the artwork. “It borders on graffiti,” said Barbara Wilson, a neighbor. “I see it in my kitchen, in my bedroom, in my basement — it’s just in my face.”
And since taxpayer funds were used to put it up, some are particularly outraged.
Clearly, I have no sympathy here. It is the douchebag, liberal crowd that believes in using taxpayer money to fund these types of supposed arts (ever heard of the NEA?), but now that it pops up in their neighborhood and they don’t particularly care for the drawing they want to bitch and moan and hold meetings to have it removed.
This is so typical of this crowd of hypocrites. They want to protest and hold rallies about various rights and freedoms, but when someone exercises their freedom in a way they don’t like they are the first to hold meetings and try to come up with legalese to get their way. Rights be damned.
Tags: Lisa Marie Thallhammer, neighborhood mural, Veronica Jackson
