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From: Bruce Esquibel
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 16:52

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I dunno if these are still up, meant to mention this a while ago (probably
since the winter) but I was wondering if anyone had a backstory.

There was a number of advertising billboards put up around the north side
(think addison/western was one) where it had a picture of former governor
blago on it and the tag line/catch phrase of something like "he never
listens".

It was for a radio station, wild guess AM 820, but I noticed a couple months
after they were up, his face got covered with one of those giant yellow
smiley faces.

I was wondering if there was a lawsuit or reason his face got covered.

I think he qualifies for a public figure, so it's not like he was owed
royalties or anything, plus it seems it was sort of a joke/jab at him, the
picture would seem to be not in the slander/libel vein either.

Anyone know?

-bruce
bje@ripco.com

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