Insane law forces building owner to pay tens of thousands of $ to graffiti "artists," for...

You need to understand how leftists pass and then use laws that take away rights to private property.  For example, most people think graffiti is unsightly, and if someone spray-paints their home you'd think they'd have the right to paint over the stuff.

Surprise.  There's a law--at least in NYC, unsure how many other places--called the "Visual Artists' Rights Act"--that makes it a crime to paint over certain graffiti.

Naturally you can't believe a legislature or council could possibly be dumb enough to pass such a law or "city ordinance" or whatever. 

That's exactly my point.

In the moral cesspool called New York City, graffiti "artists" painted the side of a building.  The owner painted the building--which you'd think was his right.

A few days ago a federal jury in New York City awarded thousands of dollars to "graffiti artists" who had painted on the guy's building, because the owner painted over their work.

The jury only deliberated for about a day, despite having to reach separate verdicts for each of the 49 artworks at issue in the case, and ruled that the owner must pay each artist.  Amounts ranged from $750 to a jaw-dropping $80,000.

Plaintiffs’ attorney Eric Baum accused the owner of violating the "Visual Artists Rights Act."

“Ignorance of a law is no excuse for violating it,” Baum said in his closing argument Monday. He called painting over the graffiti “the worst intentional destruction or mutilation of art in U.S. history.”

The jury awarded damages for about two-thirds of the pieces. About half of the works the jury found to be “recognized stature” – meaning art experts, members of the art community or a cross-section of society recognized it.

Jurors also found the destruction of the work had been harmful to the “honor or reputation” of the artist in half the cases, even for some works that didn’t belong to the “recognized stature” category.

I mention this piece-of-crap legal case because the Democrats are well on their way to achieving the destruction of the electoral college system of electing the president, using a series of laws in each state that will award each state's electoral votes to the candidate who wins the *national* popular vote.

If you think they'll pull back, you're naive.

What, you think that couldn't possibly happen without a Constitutional amendment?

Yeah?  And I'll bet that until you read about the case just noted, you wouldn't have believed that the owner of a house or building could be forced to pay graffiti hoods tens of thousands of dollars for re-painting his own damn building either.