Dean takes a page from Sprite's playbook. Nothing says "African-Americans! Choose me!" like graffiti. Not everybody is happy, however.
Councilman James Oddo, a Staten Island Republican, says the backdrop is an insulting token of bygone 1970s New York.Empty gestures! I won't be satisfied until Dean does something substantive, such as reuniting the surviving members of NWA.
"We have a pandering politician come in here and basically say to the country that what best symbolizes New York is graffiti and urban decay," Oddo said.
Dean, the former Vermont governor and a native New Yorker who left the city in 1978, was simply making the point that he's in touch with inner-city youth, according to his people.
