You try to do something good...

I was going to post the whole story, but this, from AmpersandDuck is as good as I would have done.

Long-short: Liberal MLA, Steve Pratt decided to do his bit to clean up the neighbourhood...and to get the best publicity out of it that he could...by calling the press along to watch him scrub off some graffiti. Turns out the particular graffito he chose was there at the request of the government in a inspire-graffiti-artists-to-actually-be-artists kind of way. So, for the last couple of days it's been pretty constant in the local news.

Graffiti artists have retaliated and Pratt is expected to be criminally charged (at the request of the government of course).