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• Tea42

  Le Page’s claim of having received a letter matching the Augusta mural to one seen in North Korean POW camps is ridiculous.

  But it’s becoming clearer each day, that Le Page has interpreted some similarities in what transpired earlier in Maine – as depicted in the mural – to those working conditions, he and his Tea Party are unabashedly re-creating.

  He just couldn’t face it.

  Filled with shame, he and his Watergate-style gang removed the mural under the cover of darkness. It could be in one of the many storage units that proliferate the state, or, Joe’s Garage around the corner.

  Who knows?

  With the dirty deed behind him, he quickly packed and fled to Florida and then onto Jamaica, where he remains, ashamed and incommunicado.

• Anonymous

  Come on now… you give him too much credit. You have to have empathy to feel shame… He has no feelings for anyone but himself. A stealer of other kids candy…

• kcjonez

  Your work is beautiful, Judy, and deeply appreciated by most Mainers. I’ve been keeping Kris Kristofferson’s song, “Don’t Let the Bastards Get You Down” in my head for a few days. It helps.

• Anonymous

  I would suggest that this fine lady who Governor Lepage has insulted, Paint a mural of Governor Lepage depicting his selfish act of slithering in the Dark recesses of the French Quarter, poised, ready to pounce on the unsuspecting youth at halloween, green teethed with prying yellow eyes contemplating his future rise to power in the very same State that he perpetrates his youthfull hienous act of bullying.
  The thoughts displayed above him of the same image in a future time incidiously portraying the ruination of the working families of Maine as he siphons the cash from the peoples halloween bag into the overflowing pockets of the 2011 Robber Barons!

• Tea42

  You’re right.
  I should have said “Scared.”

• http://www.facebook.com/antonio.giarratano Antonio Giarratano

  Not to sound to Shroud, but who really cares about the Artists family, okay, maybe gave her inspiration, but the FACT OF THE MATTER IS that the Mural is a Historical record of Maine’s laborers, and history belongs in a museum. You don’t see King Tut’s Golden Burial Mask in the Egyptian Capitol Building, you don’t see Cornwallis’s sword hanging in the White House, you don’t see the Gun that killed Kennedy hanging at the NRA Headquarters, no they are in Museums. The act of moving this thing isn’t an act of Censoring, it is actually going to broaden the amount of people to have access to it, people that would not normally be able to see it, unless they are having a Labor Dispute. Yes, it is currently hidden, because of all YOU people being a bunch of 10 year old idiots, not using your minds and only using your self-interests. Because of all of you, Museums are afraid to place the “HISTORIC” piece of art, that is why it is not hanging in one of them by now. YOU all should be ashamed of yourselves. I would actually want to go see this, but should I have to go to the Dept of Labor, NO…

• Anonymous

  Antonio, so all the portraits in the hall of flags, the flags themselves, and all the other art works on display in the government agency known as the state house should be remove and sent to a museum?

• Anonymous

  If Judy Taylor feels so strongly after her pain staking research and life long training after creation of this Soviet Russian and North Korean propaganda style “masterpiece” she should purchase this family portrait and hang it in her living room.