This morning, the Daily News featured a day in the life of Queens Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. Vallone is perhaps, best known for his vehement hatred of graffiti. He was a critic of Cope2’s Time Magazine Billboard and an opponent of Marc Ecko’s street party, which featured artists painting 48-foot-long replicas of 1980s NYC subway cars. Obviously, not everyone is a fan.

Vallone has been the target of irate graffiti “taggers” - getting threatening voice-mail messages and a two-story tall graffiti dedication on a movie billboard near the Manhattan Bridge - since pushing laws that make it illegal to own graffiti tools.

The seven foot tall message from Insane Twon said ‘Fuck Vallone.’ While the exaggeration of scale is admissible, let’s not kid ourselves about the meaning of this message.

Excessive graffiti focus not withstanding his day seems pretty typical. until 3:30 PM when he goes off the radar for nearly four hours. We can only speculate what he was up to: sleeping under the desk, stalking graffiti writers, thwarting art school students buying supplies? Hopefully, the Daily News will come clean. Also did they really spend the full 12 hours shadowing him?

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