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Maine's Governor Orders Removal of Public Mural Depicting Workers
Submitted by Anne Landman on March 31, 2011 - 1:20pm
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ShareThe Governor of Maine, Paul LePage, ordered a commemorative public mural depicting Maine's labor history be removed from the state's Department of Labor, saying he had gotten complaints that the artwork was too pro-labor. The 36-feet long, 8-foot tall work by Judy Taylor of Tremont, Maine depicts workers like Rosie the Riveter, child laborers, shoemakers, textile workers, strikers and the first female American cabinet member, Frances Perkins, who served as U.S. Labor Secretary. The governor had the mural taken down in secrecy, over the weekend, and had it stored in an undisclosed location. The governor also plans to assign new names to the building's conference rooms, which are currently named after prominent labor leaders. In response to the mural's removal, Maine video producer Geoff Leighton proposed balancing out the mural by adding to it images of well-known recent American business moguls, like WorldCom's Bernard Ebbers, who was convicted of fraud and conspiracy, former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, and ponzi-scheme investor Bernie Madoff, "who were significant in bringing wealth to the wealthy, despite onerous government regulations and pesky unions."

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1. you can get it here

New clue in mural mystery; complaints continue | The Morning ... Apr 1, 2011 ... Geoffrey Leighton, owner of Leighton Images, ... to do something," Leighton said of his video, which he posted on YouTube. "It is strange how few people understand what the labor movement has meant to workers in Maine. ...
just use leightons name with utube
the sentinel run a story on this in today's paper! or yesterday's
really cuts into the right's ability to lie to the poor!