Wisconsin Gov. Walker removes painting of poor children

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By David Edwards

Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker will have one less reason to think about the plight of disadvantaged children.

The governor has decided to have a painting of poor and homeless kids removed from the governor's mansion. It will be replaced with a Civil War-themed painting of a bald eagle.

The David Lenz painting entitled "Wishes in the Wind" depicts three children -- an African-American girl who had been homeless, a Hispanic girl that came from a low-income family, and a boy who had lost his brother and father to a drunk driving accident.

The state Executive Residence Foundation commissioned the painting in 2005 for display in the governor's mansion. It was finally placed there just last November.

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/08/wisconsin-gov-walker-removes-painting-of-poor-children/

[Deep13]

1. Cartoonishly mean-spirited. nt

[LetTimmySmoke]

7. That's what I was thinking.

The Dems should publicly demand that the picture be put back.

[louis-t]

2. The hatred! Yeah, maybe if you ignore them

they will go away. What a sick bastard.

[City Lights]

3. Nasty sack of sheet.

:middlefinger:

[dembotoz]

4. poor children have no place in wisconsin

cept maybe in factories

[LeftishBrit]

5. He sounds like the unreformed Scrooge.

[roody]

6. He replaced them with the real thing.

[bobthedrummer]

8. It is class war here in Wisconsin-it could possibly go to civil war. K&R n/t

[PeaceNikki]

9. He already did

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=1234503



This piece was commissioned by by the foundation that runs the governor's Maple Bluff residence and Lenz is an artist whose work is in the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery and the Milwaukee Art Museum.

[Zoeisright]

10. Fuck you, Wanker (sic).

[jwirr]

11. Walker wants to maintain his state of denial and as long as proof

stares him in the face it is harder. The painting is too good to be in his house. Better to move it where it is appreciated.

[Frustratedlady]

12. Maybe it bothers him to look at it, taking into account his treatment of those

below him. A guilty conscience will do that to you, eh, Scott?

[NM Independent]

13. He's a maggot, feeding on the corpse of the middle class. n/t