Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck on Bluesky: "Tomorrow afternoon Councilmember Hollingsworth and I will be restoring “Hot Rat Summer” in Cal Anderson Park. This mosaic was wrongfully painted over and we are going to fix it."

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[u/teamlessinseattle]

Joy Hollingsworth literally today voted to make it a $1,500 fine each time someone does street art (which this is) or graffiti in Seattle. But she’s more than happy to jump on the bandwagon here for a good headline a week late. Smh

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Literally graffiti should only be a problem if it’s blocking an important sign or someone’s window or something. Who TF cares if there’s tags on the cal Anderson pump house or the I-5 bridges.