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Pol Upset Over Wendy's Graffiti Ad

Denver Post, Tuesday, October 2, 2007 10:15 AM

A Denver politician is upset with new ads from Wendy's that she claims glorify graffiti -- and she wants the campaign erased. City Councilwoman Jeanne Faatz has sent a letter to the Burger Chain asking it to stop running an ad she saw at a movie theater that features a graffiti artist named Siloette spray-painting the "Wendy's girl" logo on a wall.

"Please do not make our community efforts to stop graffiti vandalism harder and more expensive than it already is," Faatz writes, noting that the Mile-High city is apt to spend more than $1 million next year to clean up graffiti. But Denny Lynch, a spokesman for Wendy's, denies the spot glorifies graffiti. "That's her style of art," he says of the featured artists, adding that other commercials in the same effort feature different genres.

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