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Jack Lew nears decision to keep Hamilton on front of $10 bill, put a woman on the $20
CNN ^ | April 16, 2016 | Kevin Liptak and Antoine Sanfuentes

Posted on 04/16/2016 9:02:05 PM PDT by PROCON

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is expected to announce this week that Alexander Hamilton's face will remain on the front of the $10 bill and a woman will replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the $20 bill, a senior government source told CNN on Saturday.

Lew announced last summer that he was considering redesigning the $10 bill to include the portrait of a woman. The decision to make the historic change at the expense of Hamilton drew angry rebukes from fans of the former Treasury Secretary. The pro-Hamilton movement gained steam after the smash success of the hip-hop Broadway musical about his life this year.

Those pressures led Lew to determine that Hamilton should remain on the front of the bill. Instead, a mural-style depiction of the women's suffrage movement -- including images of leaders such as Susan B. Anthony -- will be featured on the back of the bill.

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alexanderhamilton; andrewjackson; currency; jacklew; money; treasury; womyn
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To: Blue Jays
They could use an image of the Statue Of Liberty.

That would not offend conservatives, therefore it will not be considered.

41 posted on 04/16/2016 10:28:35 PM PDT by TChad
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To: PROCON

I don’t believe the Broadway “smash” really had anything to do with it.


42 posted on 04/16/2016 10:36:14 PM PDT by Crucial (The more dysfunctional the society, the more need for powerful governmental power to control it.)
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To: Paradox

Agreed.


43 posted on 04/16/2016 10:37:46 PM PDT by Crucial (The more dysfunctional the society, the more need for powerful governmental power to control it.)
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To: PROCON

Tell the libs that Hamilton’s paper just endorsed Trump and they’ll be ready to dump him.


44 posted on 04/16/2016 10:39:21 PM PDT by Rastus (The next president will be Trump or Hillary. Vote accordingly.)
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To: TChad
That would not offend conservatives, therefore it will not be considered.

What was I thinking? She's for unlimited immigration. She'd be perfect!

45 posted on 04/16/2016 10:43:18 PM PDT by TChad
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To: PROCON

I don’t want to think what he has in store for the last several hundred days.

he (and his piece of #### voters) will have left almost nothing to build on.

He is a wrecking ball and he keeps swinging.


46 posted on 04/16/2016 10:52:06 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: PROCON
I vote for her:

The Statue of Freedom on the Capitol dome.

There's precedence:


47 posted on 04/16/2016 10:52:42 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: PLMerite
Or this woman:


48 posted on 04/16/2016 10:55:22 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: PROCON

When this first came up, I thought it was rather rude that they they put Andrew Jackson on any Federal Reserve note.


49 posted on 04/16/2016 10:55:57 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: PROCON

There is no woman that deserves to be on the $20.

This is about sexist pandering and destroying “old white guys”.


50 posted on 04/16/2016 11:00:01 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: PROCON

$10 bill isn’t IN OUR FACE enough.. They want to change the Bill most commonly dispensed by ATM’s, the $20. Constant reminder of our ‘hopey changey’ prez. FUBO!


51 posted on 04/16/2016 11:03:10 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (u)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Harriet Tubman works for me. That was one powerful story, and if putting her there brings more attention to her and her accomplishments - it would be a great thing.


52 posted on 04/16/2016 11:04:38 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: PROCON

The conservative in me says don’t change he faces on any of our money.


53 posted on 04/16/2016 11:05:52 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: PROCON

Who decides this stuff, and why do we need change? Leave the #$@&&! thing alone!


54 posted on 04/16/2016 11:08:40 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: PROCON
Lilly Wachowski meets the new and improved criteria.
55 posted on 04/16/2016 11:09:35 PM PDT by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: Mears
Nah. Too hard to register skin tones in black and white, Let's go for the Most easily recognized American woman anywhere on the globe. I'm for

Whistler's Mother!


56 posted on 04/16/2016 11:15:00 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

How ‘bout Sarah Palin? Let’s make some liberal heads explode.

Or Lady Liberty.

Or Betsy Ross.

Or Martha Washington.

Or, better yet, Ronald Reagan!


57 posted on 04/16/2016 11:20:49 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The GOPe must be defeated.....the sooner the better.)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

Eff that crap


58 posted on 04/16/2016 11:22:18 PM PDT by wardaddy (gonna need a lot of rope and lamposts and gibbets after this primary season.....)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Yeah I bet


59 posted on 04/16/2016 11:23:29 PM PDT by wardaddy (gonna need a lot of rope and lamposts and gibbets after this primary season.....)
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To: PROCON

I’d be okay with Annie Oakley on the $20 - posing with her rifle.


60 posted on 04/16/2016 11:24:00 PM PDT by zencycler
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