This is so cool, look what the Dems did in MAINE!!!!

[Omaha Steve]

Top of the page. This is really cool: the labor mural that Gov. LePage removed from the Maine Dept. of Labor now serves as the banner of the Maine Democratic Party site.

http://www.mainedems.org/

[MineralMan]

1. Very nice, indeed!

[USA_1]

2. EXCELLENT!

Hopefully, this means that eventually the Dems will be going back to the old activist roots.

[Tansy_Gold]

3. +1000

or maybe that's +100,000. Can't tell. My eyes are a bit blurry right now. Not sure why. . . . .



TG

[fasttense]

4. The artist said she put her mother and father, now deceased, in the

mural. Good to see her work was not destroyed and forgotten.

[snappyturtle]

5. Cool! It's such a wonderful mural; glad to see good use of it! nt

[Scuba]

6. Wisconsin stands with Maine citizens !!!

[glinda]

12. WI and MN. Repubs want "open for business" signs also. That is what they meant!

[Oceansaway]

7. Solidarity Forever !...nt

[murielm99]

8. They should raise some funds and start putting the

mural on billboards all over the state.

[avebury]

22. That is such a good idea (LOL!)

[AlbertCat]

34. on billboards all over the state.

Make a good letter head for any Dem reps too.

[calimary]

39. YES!

That mural should be reproduced EVERYWHERE, so that the asshole governor can't get away from it. It should be in his face EVERYWHERE he turns.

[handmade34]

9. very nice

that mural needs to be in a very public place... not hid away

[hamerfan]

10. K&R! n/t

[DemReadingDU]

11. Nice!

[glinda]

13. K & R n/t

[roody]

14. The governor went through with it?

[tomp]

15. le page must be a real asshole. nt

[Maineman]

17. Yes, LaPage is a jerk who was elected with way less than 50%.

[Maine-ah]

41. 38%

:hi:

[DMNinFL]

16. My Father told me before he died

that anyone who worked for a living and voted Republican what either NUTS or very easily fooled.

[Pholus]

23. Mine as well. Does the MN mean Minnesotan by chance? :)

What dad actually said was ask people why the vote the way they do:

Republicans tend to answer "because my parents were or my uncles or my family has always been"

Democrats answered "because I stand for the working man."

I really miss the old man.....

[jtown1123]

49. Or rich.

[Uben]

18. Shoulda been nailed to LePAge's ass

I have a feeling it might wind up in his ass! In the end (no pun intended), I think he will regret this move.

[MsPithy]

19. Fuck ya!

Nicely played! And, it is a really awesome piece.

[proReality]

20. This needs to be advertised as a tourist attraction. Seriously. n/t

[Shadowflash]

21. K&R!

I second the idea someone upthread had about putting it on billboards throughout the state.

[Historic NY]

24. Make them remember the mural is "the people".....wonderful idea

[Bluenorthwest]

25. The mural itself should travel the State

So all of Maine can see it.

[socialist_n_TN]

26. Well it hasn't trickled UP to the national Dems yet........

(at least not extensively), but it seems that local and state Democratic Parties are getting the picture (pun intended:)). This is a "Who's side are you on?" moment and we're on the side of the working class.

[PatSeg]

27. That idiot governor

couldn't just slowly and quietly screw workers in his state, he had to do something that got him on national news. Workers and Democrats have been sorely underestimated by these jerks. How complacent did they think people were?

Good for the Democratic Party of Maine, brilliant idea.

[Zambero]

28. His antics may be problematic for Olympia Snowe's re-election prospects

Snowe is already walking a fine line between the moderate and Tea Party elements in the state. If she is on record for expressing support for the governor's policies, she risks alienating the middle (and a few potential Democratic crossover voters as well). If she decides to distance herself from the jerk, then the Tea Party throws her under the bus. Since Snowe has moved somewhat to the right over the course of the past 2 years, Maine Democrats should seize the opportunity and do everything they can to tie these two together. She either accepts this association at a cost, or refutes it at a cost. Either way, the Republican brand becomes a liability in a state that has historically been less partisan and more independent.

[PatSeg]

30. I hadn't thought of that

Things are getting very interesting. These GOP politicians have gotten so used to catering to tea party nuts, they evidently think everyone is that stupid.

One can tell that a lot of these governors made promises to donors (mostly Koch brothers) in order to get elected and no matter how the public reacts, they have to do as they've been told. There's a whole lot of sweating going on behind closed doors these days.

[Plucketeer]

29. That really IS great to hear!

I sure like the billboard idea. Wonder if there's a sign workers union that would volunteer the labor? Maybe there's a billboard Co. that's sympathetic to labor OR has a grudge against LeDunce, er LePage.

[JEB]

31. Replicas

of this beautiful mural should be appearing everywhere.

[BrightKnight]

37. Offer a poster with a donation of $35 or more. - n/t

[WillyT]

32. K & R !!!

:kick:

[blackspade]

33. well played Maine Democrats!

[rtassi]

35. Now, if that were true, that would really be something! n/t

[Miss_Underestimated]

36. but the mural wasn't meant to be partisan - It's about historical events

I'd like to see it on other party's sites as well at the very least; not just Dems:shrug:

[Politicalboi]

38. I like your name LOL!

The others don't deserve to have that affiliated with their parties. Yes it is about historical events, but we need to show the morAns who is for the working people. Hopefully someday the mural will return to where it belongs.

[Sixathome]

40. Now the main web site needs to use it

Solitary on all fronts!
Rockefeller destroyed Rivera´s work because he did not like it´s message. (It included Lenin)

[SpankMe]

42. It's not enough.

This excellent and very relevant mural should never have been pulled from the Dep't of Labor in Maine. The removal was the willful infliction of an indignity to supporters of labor, and had nothing to do with substantive policy or the finances of the state. It was a symbolic back-handed slap in the face by a crackpot Tea-tard governor both as a punishment to us "libruls" and for asserting his authority. Very immature.

This should *NOT* be reduced to a web site banner. Posters should be made of it and stealth protesters should go out every night with wheat paste and plaster these things on every surface they can find. (Don't lecture me about vandalism.)

Some rich mogul on our side of this issue should rent a billboard - or two - or three - and put enlarged versions of this up around Augusta, preferably in plain sight of the state capital so this hurtful pig of a governor will have to see it every day. Hopefully, it'll also be in the face of those "big business" leaders who claim great offense at seeing it when the visit the labor department (which I'm sure they did frequently).

Make no mistake - this nothing to do with not offending the business community. Republicans are out not only to eliminate unions, but to eliminate from plain view, from the public consciousness and from history, the role of organized labor in the success of America.

Fuck Paul LePage. Fuck conservative evil.

(Can you tell I'm still a bit irked by this?)

[Omaha Steve]

43. This so cool post has a place in DU history

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x782270

The best thing is it happened with our party and labor working together.

[Zoigal]

44. Good for them...some great creative thinking.

Hope it gets more publicity....z

[Chorophyll]

45. Great! And now it would be terrific if the *national* party would

remember its responsibilities to ordinary working people and design their policies accordingly. And loudly. And bravely.

Main Dems: :fistbump:

[louslobbs]

46. This is a much better idea than mine, I wanted to shove each mural panel up LePages ass

with the canvases removed and replaced with the faces of KaSick, Walker, Scott, Boner, Can'tor, King, Miss McDonnell, McCrazyBrainMcCain, Palin, Beck and Bachmann. That is, of course, after removing LePages own head from his fat ass first.
Lou

[yellerpup]

47. ice save!

WTG, Dems! :kick: & R!

[bertman]

48. Excellent. Thanks for posting this, Steve. REC. nt