Washington bill would have made convicted taggers clean up graffiti in lieu of jail time 

Washington State's Senate Chair sounds a lot like Multnomah County's Chair, hire an expensive outside consultant, study it for a year or so, then appoint a committee to form a plan of action. Meanwhile, the cost of cleanup soars, then the project gets shelved because "we can't afford it". Sound familiar?

This Story just got me to thinking about how many times we've been hearing about the recidivism of excessive graffiti & rocks through windows & random acts of property damage; & that given how much $$$ is being spent on dark $$ Ads to promote one Candidate at the expense of Another(s); then why not spend it to oh say, even hire Folks to actually do the deeds, which could then lead to certain Candidates being overly & overtly targeted for blame. I mean, hasn't it been exceedingly difficult to actually catch these culprits? maybe not if they are professionals & perhaps receiving certain assists .. BTW, when is Action Fund 314 & Voters for Responsive Government going to reveal their Funding!!

Presumably the law would have made allowances for cleanup that puts untrained workers at risk, but I'd be interested to know exactly where they drew the line and if that resulted in a safety concern like the one that guy briefly mentioned. I've spoken to taggers in the past, and part of the whole mystique comes from getting your tag somewhere up, visible, and confoundingly dangerous to get to. While they may be willing to hang off overpasses to leave their marks, I can kind of imagine how the state would be reluctant to be responsible for asking these people to reproduce such dangerous acrobatics as a punishment, with or without heavy machinery that they aren't trained on to aid them. It would be frustrating to learn an idea like this died simply because while bill creators imagined taggers with paint rollers repairing walls at street level, the wording of the bill wasn't thorough enough to rule out situations where they'd be liable for making taggers dangle over the edge of building ledges, or whatever.