Maine governor Paul LePage has ordered the removal of a mural in the Maine Department of Labor depicting labor movement heroes. TPM has the story: 

Defending his decision to take down a mural at the Department of Labor building and change the name of conference rooms considered too pro-labor, a spokeswoman for Gov. Paul LePage released a faxed complaint comparing the art to North Korean propaganda.

“In this mural I observed a figure which closely resembles the former commissioner of labor,” an anonymous fax given to the Portland Press Herald reads. “In studying the mural I also observed that this mural is nothing but propaganda to further the agenda of the Union movement. I felt for a moment that I was in communist North Korea where they use these murals to brainwash the masses.”

A spokeswoman for the governor, Adrienne Bennett, told TPM that while she didn’t want to “give validity” to the specific sentiments in the fax, it was one of numerous complaints brought up by senior policy staff when the LePage administration took over the department.

My only problem with all of this is the use of the fax. So outmoded.