City Demands Personal Records From Etching Acid Hobbyists

Yesterday, New York’s City Council launched a new offensive against graffiti writers and legitimate legal etching enthusiasts, approving legislation requiring store owners to keep files on anyone who buys glass etching acid. Acid dealers that don’t record customers’ personal info, including their name, address, as well as the date and quantity of their purchase, and make those records available to police for a year, could be fined up to $250. In a bid to discourage vandalism, city law already prohibits anyone under the age of 21 from purchasing the etching acid more commonly used for art and industrial purposes. Read more »

Peter Vallone Jr. Hates Minorities, Forward Thinking

The cruelly unusual Rockefeller Drug Laws represent some of the worst penal policies New York State has ever adopted. Signed in 1973 by the extravagantly wealthy governor at the time, Nelson A. Rockefeller, they “mandated minimum prison terms for the possession or sale of narcotics.” Well, the laws have basically been an utter failure since their inception. They never curbed drug use and basically put a disproportionate amount of minorities in jail. Thankfully, the New York State Assembly finally decided the archaic laws need to be reformed and will reinstate “judicial discretion to the sentencing process, striking a balance between punishment for violent and repeat drug convicts and rehabilitation alternatives for lower level and first-time offenders.”

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No Surprise: Peter Vallone Jr. Hates Graffiti-Covered Gates

Continuing his fanatical quest to eradicate graffiti, Queens Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr. is pushing a proposal to remove shutter security gates from storefronts around the city. He believes the typical shutter design encourages graffiti and wants all new gates sold and installed to be mostly see-through mesh, because you can’t possibly vandalize that. he City disagrees with the plan, saying it’s rash to force new expenses on businesses already facing challenging startup costs. This idea, like so many others from Vallone is destined to fail. A better alternative for Vallone’s bid to clean up storefronts would be to enlist the help of the gate masters, Exterior Surface Painting Outreach.
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Peter Vallone Jr. Hates Democracy

The spineless city councilman who relies heavily on fighting graffiti to get his name in the press, Peter Vallone Jr., will support Bloomberg’s plan to bend the will of the people by voting in favor of legislation altering term limit laws. Like Speaker Quinn and the mayor himself, Vallone opposes a referendum by voters which is how this matter has historically been resolved. Instead, he offered up some bullshit excuse about the city’s so called impending doom, “While I believe, and most people agree, that a referendum would be the best way to alter term limits, at this point I think it’s more important to make a huge improvement in our government than to insist on a special election that could cause government paralysis during these trying times.” So basically, it would be way too inconvenient to let democracy get involved. |Gotham Gazette|

Peter Vallone Jr. Is A Pigger Submission

Although our Peter Vallone Jr. giveaway asked readers to specifically Jokerize the zealous politician how could we deny this image depicting him as a immigrant hating pig submitted by a vandal who wished to be credited simply as THEGOVTLIES. Be sure to check out the rest of the submissions so far.
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Jokerizing Peter Vallone Jr.

In an effort to bring attention to a certain NYC councilman’s evil ways, ANIMAL presents the “Peter Vallone Jr. Is the Joker Giveaway.” Head over to the special page we made, download the image of the anti-graffiti zealot, Jokerize and send back. First 10 people get Dark Knight tickets, all others: glory. More details over here.

Vallone’s Family Immortalized In Mural By Graffiti Artists

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Despite Peter Vallone Jr.’s fundamentalist hate of graffiti and his contemptuous assertion that all spraypaint wielding artists are punks or criminal enablers, he just can’t escape it. Yesterday we took a look at his personally funded soccer team posing in front of a graffiti splashed wall for their team photo and now this mural featuring his dad, failed mayoral candidate Peter Vallone Sr. and granddad Judge Charles Vallone. It was designed and painted by female graffiti pioneer LADY PINK alongside her husband SMITH, a still notorious, tunnel painting vandal (and legendary street bombing king) last month. The mural was commissioned by the Salah M. Hassanein Variety Boys & Girls Club of Queens and features: “Anne Buehler, the club’s first executive director, surrounded by (clockwise from Buehler’s l.) former City Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr., George Skouras, Judge Charles Vallone and Salah M.Hassanein.”

Vallone’s Graffiti Splashed Soccer Camp Marks His Incompetence

The photo above is of none other than anti-graffiti zealot Peter Vallone Jr. with kids from the Federation of Italian-American Organization of Queens’ summer soccer camp, posing for their team photo in front of a heavily vandalized wall. Apparently the media whoring, public paint Nazi can’t even provide his personally funded soccer team with a tag free environment, despite all his graffiti fighting rhetoric.This should cause some concern for voters with word that he’s considering a run for Queens Borough President. If he can’t even keep his home turf clean, how the hell is he supposed to manage the entire borough? Click below for another angle of the bombed-up wall as the name recognition councilman hands out t-shirts.

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Freedom Hating Politician Threatens Art Shop With Surveillance Cams

NYC’s most infamous media whoring councilman, Peter Vallone, continues his anti-American campaign to stifle the sales of art supplies, setting his sights on Alphabeta Shop, Greenpoint’s newest purveyor of spray paint, old school paraphernalia, and other graffiti-associated products (photo gallery here). He’s upset that the shop sells the aerosol dispensing form of paint and threatened with some Big Brother bullying: “Maybe I should work to get a police camera outside [the store].” Although Vallone has indeed “spent his career drafting some the toughest vandalism laws in the nation,” as Newsday notes, what they fail to report is that major pieces of legislation he championed for were challenged and deemed unconstitutional, highlighting his persistent failures. But regardless of his dismal record in doing anything that actually reduces graffiti, he’s been quite proficient in vandalizing the local media stories with his totalitarian rhetoric, which will sadly only increase now that he’s running for Queens borough president.

Catherine Nolan Is the New Peter Vallone Jr.

Snarly Assemblything Catherine Nolan is pushing for new legislation that increases the penalty for chronic graffiti offenses to a felony. Fellow public paint hater Peter Vallone Jr.—who unsuccessfully introduced two anti-graffiti bills that were later struck down as unconstitutional—was delighted, adding his own predictable copy and paste comments to he matter:

“Right now, graffiti punks often get caught, get a slap on the wrist, and are out tagging again the next day. This bill will let us catch someone once and deter them from ever doing graffiti again.”

Basically, the offense of “Making Graffiti” would be augmented with “Making Graffiti in the first degree” and “Making Graffiti in the second degree”: “Making Graffiti in the second degree would be an A misdemeanor, the same as the current law. But someone convicted of the second degree crime on two or more occasions can be charged with the first-degree violation, an E felony.” The bill would also upgrade the possession of graffiti instruments from a B to an Amisdemeanor.

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