sweetmelissa31: Do they want another mural with rich people hanging out on their yachts?

Well it is the Dept. of Rich People Yachting.

What a sickening disease Republicans have become on our society.

Just think Mainers. Three more years of this guy. Just remember that when you go to the polls over those next three years.

maybe they'll put something like this up?

What a douche

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest loss of life from an industrial accident in U.S. history. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers, who either died from the fire or jumped to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent Jewish and Italian immigrant women aged sixteen to twenty-three;[1][2][3] the oldest victim was 48, the youngest were two fourteen-year-old girls.[4] Many of the workers could not escape the burning building because the managers had locked the doors to the stairwells and exits. People jumped from the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors. The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers.

On January 19, 2006 a belt line fire killed miners Don I. Bragg, 33, and Ellery Elvis Hatfield, 47, at Massey's Aracoma Alma Number 1 Mine in Logan County, West Virginia. Efforts to fight the fire were hampered by inadequate fire extinguishers, fire hose couplings which did not match the water line, and a lack of water in the lines.[41] On December 22, 2008 Massey Energy agreed to pay $4.2 million in civil and criminal penalties for the accident.[42] It is the largest financial settlement in the coal industry's history.[43] The Charleston (WV) Gazette reported on January 15, 2009 that Aracoma widows Delorice Bragg and Freda Hatfield urged U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver to reject Massey's plea bargain and fine for the accident.[44] Widow Bragg stated that it was clear "that Massey executives expected the Alma Mine to emphasize production over the safety of the coal miners inside."

On February 1, 2006, bulldozer operator Paul K. Moss, 58, of Sissonville West Virginia died when his machine ruptured a 16-inch (410 mm) natural gas line at Elk Run Coal Co.'s Black Castle surface mine.[45] The bulldozer was immediately engulfed in flames. According to the Mine Safety and Health Administration report, operator Moss exited the cab but his body was found behind the blade. Massey Energy was fined $2.5 million after a federal judge accepted the company's guilty plea to 10 criminal charges for the fire. A U.S. District approved a plea deal despite a provision sparing Massey officials and the Richmond, Va., coal company from prosecution. The agreement also required Aracoma to pay a $1.7 million fine for civil violations found by the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration.[46]

On October 8, 2008 Steven Cain, 32, of Comfort, West Virginia was killed at Massey Energy's Independence Coal Justice No. 1 Mine when he was crushed by a railcar. A Mine Safety and Health Administration report [47] concludes Cain was killed because Massey managers assigned him a dangerous job, although he had "little mining experience and minimal training."[48]

In 2009, the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration cited Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine for 495 violations and proposed $911,802 in fines.[49]

On April 5, 2010, 29 miners were killed in a mine explosion at the Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine at Montcoal, West Virginia. Safety officials claimed that the mine had previous violations for not properly ventilating methane gas. In the previous year, federal inspectors had fined the company more than $382,000 for violations involving ventilation and equipment at the plant.[50] This explosion and subsequent deaths was the worst US mine disaster in 40 years.
[edit] Age discrimination

On Oct 30, 2009, Fayette County WV Judge Paul Blake ruled in an age discrimination lawsuit that more than 200 miners who were not rehired after Massey Energy Co. bought a bankrupt West Virginia mine were entitled to a settlement of $8.75 million. The suit covers 229 miners, including 82 union miners. Massey has been ordered to rehire the miners. Under the terms of the settlement, the 82 union miners will each receive $38,000. The remaining miners will receive $19,000.[51]
[edit] EPA complaint

In January 2008, the United States Department of Justice ordered Massey to pay fines totaling $30 million as part of an agreement resulting from a May 2007 complaint filed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.[52]

What does her dad have anything to do with this? Did he die so she could hang a mural?

How does this qualify her for the hero tag?

WTF Indeed: Just remember that

They won't. That's the issue with the American electorate: no memory sp...oh look a kitty.

Her dad's service doesn't have anything to do with her art. Get over it biatch.

So should all Art Deco buildings be razed too then?

Republicans don't give a flying fark about workers. They care about profit, and profit alone, and fark anyone who has to work, or even risk their lives, for that money.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: Who gives a shiat? She got paid to paint a mural, it was displayed in a public building, and now it's been removed.

Who farking cares?

It can't be removed without the artist's knowledge and consent, as per the contract between the artist and the state. But it's currently hidden, and the governor won't tell anyone where it is.

See kids? THIS is Communism. Acutally, more like Stalinism, where history is re-written to exclude elements that the ruling elite deem inappropriate for their narration. And it is their narration as well, we don't matter.

This turd in Maine needs a history lesson.

Running a business and making money would be so much easier if it weren't for those pesky workers. For that matter, just imagine how wonderful this country would be if we could just get rid of people and their annoying "rights" altogether and just create a place where businesses can exist in utopian environment completely free of human concerns. And guns. We would still need lots of guns.

Ah, the Republican dream.

Kommissar: Her dad's service doesn't have anything to do with her art. Get over it biatch.

I'm going to have to agree. Hanging the Bronze star is just pretentious appeal to superpatriotism.

She got paid for her work. They aren't asking for the money back. If the people of Maine want a pro-business governor who is inimical to organized labor, fine. They'll get what they deserve.

Though comparing it to NK propaganda is just silly. Did you kids know what when people work together, they can achieve better results than working alone? SOCIALISM!

I doubt an anonymous letter to the FCC complaining Fox's use of the public airwaves is reminiscent of fascism would be as effective.

My father's a Vietnam-era Bronze Star winner. Where's my hero tag?

/the man in the black pajamas
//worthy farkin' adversary

where history is re-written to exclude elements that the ruling elite deem inappropriate for their narration. And it is their narration as well, we don't matter.

This turd in Maine needs a history lesson.

Yep.

Since it is Maine, a good historical pro-business could depict wealthy owners of shipping companies deliberately sending sailors to their deaths in unsafe boats so that they could get the insurance proceeds on the boat.

That is silly. Republicans don't give a fark about veterans unless it promotes their agenda. Now all of a sudden a bunch of guys who served with your dad will come out of the woodwork claiming he didn't deserve his Bronze Star. That is how they do it. It does not matter if they contradict themselves because it is about winning at all costs.

I have a plan to end all controversy over this kind of public art: Stop wasting tax money on this kind of public art. I mean really: Who cares about the history of Maine labor? What, Maine needs another of these banal 30s-style art deco murals showing people stoically tapping trees and shuffling paper with great dignity and courageously spreading asphalt? I really like the stuff they have in the Colorado Capitol building showing the noble redskinned savages standing in solidarity with their intrepid fur trapper comrades and heroic, strong-limbed lumberjacks and archetypical bricklayers and all that crap. Sh*t looks the same in every government building from coast to coast.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: Who gives a shiat? She got paid to paint a mural, it was displayed in a public building, and now it's been removed.

Who farking cares?

Seems in line with most of the comments in TFA.

The reason why people care is because this was a piece that was commissioned by public funds and that she had very likely run her sketches and preliminary pieces through a committee for approval before before hanging the final piece in a public building. This was a piece that told a visual history of labor. More than appropriate for a Labor Department building, you think? The idea that the governor says its anti-business and that's why he pulled it down smacks of not really keeping the people's interests to heart.

technically, her father is a hero.

she's a painter.

Tusz: It can't be removed without the artist's knowledge and consent, as per the contract between the artist and the state. But it's currently hidden, and the governor won't tell anyone where it is.

Ah, well that changes that for me. That's just breach of contract and she needs to get a lawyer if she wants the art back up.

Would she feel any better if it were removed because the Governor just thinks her artwork sucks and hates looking at it? I'm not claiming I could do better, but then I'm not claiming to be an artist.

Whenever I get depressed, thinking the Houston Chronicle's daily news site commenters are the worst examples of humanity on the bottom of Earth's shoe, I trawl around Maine and Alaska Craigslist R&R boards and news sites which allow comments. It cheers me up, a lot.

Glockgraduation: What does her dad have anything to do with this? Did he die so she could hang a mural?

Agree. I honor this man's service. His daughter is using his legacy as a crutch. It's shameful.

The person I hated most while working the entrance gates to military installations?

"I.D. please."
"I DON'T HAVE TO SHOW MY I.D.! HOW DARE YOU! DONT YOU KNOW WHO MY (spouse/parent/boss) IS?! WHATNLEGARBL!!!"

DarnoKonrad: I doubt an anonymous letter to the FCC complaining Fox's use of the public airwaves is reminiscent of fascism would be as effective.

You talking about Fox News? The cable/satellite station? The one that doesn't use public airwaves? Or are you talking about your local Fox affiliate?

Oh I can't wait for election day this year. Maybe some of the Right wing, anti labor politicians will sit up and listen. You know. The ones that weren't up for re-election.