Government Authorized Political Expression

 

Bucking widely held notions about municipal inefficiency, workers from the city Department of Transportation descended on the display less than 24 hours later — around 10 p.m. Saturday — to cover up the message with black, according to the attendee ... Even while personally helping plaster that message on public property, de Blasio has nixed efforts to paint a similar display reading “Blue Lives Matter” in support of cops ... The NYPD confirmed that a criminal mischief complaint had been filed over the incident and that an investigation is ongoing... [More]

This is what the majority of New Yorkers vote for.

[Via Michael G]