The government has spent $270,000 of taxpayer money to repaint a political slogan on a street near the White House.
That’s according to a report from government watchdog Judicial Watch.
The organization reports getting a couple dozen pages of records in a Freedom of Information Act case with the Washington, D.C., Department of Transportation, and they revealed that was the cost to taxpayers to repaint the leftist “Black Lives Matter” slogan on the street.
“The repainting seems to have taken place shortly before Black Lives Matter groups began defending Hamas terrorist murders of Jews in Israel,” the report pointedly noted.
The slogan, in yellow-painted letters 50 feet tall, appeared after the protests and riots in Washington that were orchestrated by the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, the report said.
It’s on 16th Street NW near the White House.
The documents showed the price of the repainting was $53,551 for paint and supplies and another $217,680 for labor.
“In a purchase order dated September 15, 2023 with the description ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza Redo’, a vendor charged DC-based Equus Striping a total of $53,551.20 for supplies for ‘BLMRedo2023’. These supplies included ‘StreetBond 250 Yellow-BLM (MMA)’, ‘StreetBond 250 Catalyst’, and ‘StreetBond Primer’, plus shipping,” Judicial Watch revealed.
“The labor for the repainting was provided by a subcontractor called Dewberry and totaled $217,680.”
Needed were “a foreman, operator, laborer, carpenter, and mason” who used “a backhoe/loader, portable air compressor, Bobcat, dump truck, pick-up truck, and service truck.”
“DC crime is out of control but local leaders continue to wastes $270,000 in tax money promoting the extremist Black Lives Matter movement in the heart of Washington DC that is racist, anti-police, anti-American, and often violent,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
On July 1, 2020, Judicial Watch filed a civil rights lawsuit for First Amendment violations over a refusal by city officials to allow Judicial Watch to paint the message “Because No One Is Above the Law!” on a DC street.
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For after the biggest one-day mass slaughter of Jews since the Nazi Holocaust, what followed was an outpouring of celebratory demonstrations, unbridled Jew-hatred, deliriously gleeful support for Hamas and bitter condemnation of the nation of Israel. Not just in the Arab-Muslim world, but throughout the Western world as well, including all across America.
Why? What is behind the explosion of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish, pro-terror sentiment in the United States, where Israel has long been one of America’s closest friends and allies? Why are hordes of young “woke” LGBT demonstrators marching in support of Hamas – when Hamas wouldn’t think twice about binding and blindfolding them and throwing them off the roof of a tall building – as they routinely do in the Muslim world?
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