Yea, so get this… A couple of days ago there was a big expose on the front page of the paper talking about how the city of Bakersfield has been losing its fight against graffiti and how they’re finally going to do something about it. According to the article, “money has been poured into the graffiti-removal department” blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda. The very next day the tag shown in the picture above appeared across the street from my house. Umm -yea.
The head line of the local section in today’s paper reads “City Council spilt on graffiti action” and the article states that “Graffiti is political gold in
Instead, two of those four members launched their own 'publicity stunt.' They invited The Press (but not their fellow council members) and took to the streets to paint over graffiti covered walls.
A separate article (also written by James Burger) describes how the meeting held by City Council members Jack Scrivner and Jauquie Sullivan discussed plans to deal with the graffiti problem and allowed the public to address their concerns. Meanwhile, the rest of the Counsil Clan were out painting walls and saying stuff like “Instead of attending a meeting where we really weren’t wanted” we are were out "doing something about it.”
Does it freak any body else out that the members of our City Council can’t even agree upon how to deal with a relatively simple (yet VERY pervasive) problem like graffiti but they are still running around making BIG decisions that affect our daily lives?
"Graffiti is political gold" my ass.
Stumble It!
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