Posted on 10/13/2021 6:02:01 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is reportedly removing a statue of Thomas Jefferson from City Hall’s Council chambers where it has stood for the past 187 years.
“The city’s Public Design Commission — comprised of mayoral appointees — has listed ‘the long term loan’ of the 1833 painted plaster statue of the Declaration of Independence author to the New-York Historical Society on its ‘consent’ agenda for Monday,” the New York Post reported Wednesday.
The designation meant the statue’s removal has not been scheduled for public debate, and the design commission would vote on de Blasio’s move once it examined public comments, according to a City Hall spokesman.
A replica of the figure by sculptor Pierre-Jean David is still housed in the Capitol Rotunda located in Washington, DC.
“This statue of Thomas Jefferson was the first full-length portrait statue placed in the U.S. Capitol Building. Its bronze medium was unusual in early 19th-century America, where sculpture was more commonly carved in marble,” the Architect of the Capitol website read:
Meanwhile, Councilman I. Daneek Miller (D-Queens) who has urged removal of the Jefferson statue, explained the loan was “indefinite,” adding he expected it to be gone by October 21 when the City Council’s next body-wide meeting was scheduled.
However, one council member was not happy with the idea.
“The de Blasio administration will continue the progressive war on history as he, himself, fades away into a portrait on a City Hall wall,” Councilman Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island) said during an interview.
The planned removal comes following the mayor’s decision to charge his wife, Chirlane McCray, with deciding what to do with the sculpture as leader of the Commission on Racial Justice and Reconciliation, the Post article said.
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Terrible
Hey! I know him! He’s that guy who believed in independence! We should crush him and erase him from history!!
Thank You Nikki Haley!
TJ just gone Galt.
Smooth move Ex Lax find something else important to do.
George Washington, standing at Federal Hall where he took his oath of office to be the first president united states, must come down!
So Wilhelm is saying that New York doesn’t agree to the Constitution, since the guy that wrote it is anathema to them.
Great. So by what right does some bozo named Bill rule over that city? Is he gonna hand it all back to the Lenape? And kick out the folks from the Pale of Settlement and the former West Africans?
Do it now, Billy. Show your commitment.
Jefferson was in France when the Constitution was written.
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
-PJ
As President Trump, the true president, predicted.
Vacant space available for St. George.
Replacing with Lenin?
Oh Details. He was corresponding with his buddy Madison and others before and during the Convention and the need for a BOR is credited to him by Madison, with whom he specifically discussed the amendments.
So I generally think of Jefferson as the intellectual force behind the Constitution, and Madison as the executor.
Think that’s reasonable.
What a son of a bitch!
FU De Bozo!
DeBlasio would not be worthy to lick the dust from Jefferson’s shoes.
Is anyone surprised that a man of De Blasio’s inclinations would have a problem with Jefferson? Communists always hate liberty.
When is this a-hole going to leave office, fer crying out loud??
One of the greatest minds since Aristotle, but that means nothing to these loons.
Sic Semper Tyrannis, DeBlasio.
Aristotle is now a racist as he positively viewed slavery as a beneficial institution
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