Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Group pushing to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 selects Harriet Tubman as their candidate
dailymail.co.uk ^ | May 12, 2015 | Josh Gardner For Dailymail.com and AP

Posted on 05/12/2015 4:37:55 PM PDT by PROCON


The group Women on 20s says 600,000 voters chose the Maryland-born escaped slave and Underground Railroad conductor to appear on a $20

Tubman beat out Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt and Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, in the final round of voting

Now the group intends to petition President Obama to encourage the treasury to make the first such change since 1929

A group campaigning to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with a woman has announced who they want that woman to be: Harriet Tubman.

Starting in March, the non-profit Women on 20s held two rounds of voting in which the conductor of the Underground Railroad claimed victory over 99 other trailblazing women including Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt and Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 20dollarbill; harriettubman
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-62 next last
Good grief.

What say we wait until Jan.2017 and petition President Cruz to have President Ronald Reagan's picture put on the $20 bill.

Oh, the exploding liberal heads would be fun to watch.

1 posted on 05/12/2015 4:37:55 PM PDT by PROCON
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: PROCON

Ronald Reagan’s picture put on the $20 bill

Excellent!


2 posted on 05/12/2015 4:41:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

Two-fer!
Two-fer!
Two-fer!
Two-fer!


3 posted on 05/12/2015 4:41:18 PM PDT by kaehurowing
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

Nothing wrong with Harriet Tubman as far as I can see. But interesting that they decide to replace Jackson, the President who hated central bankers with a purple passion, and knew exactly how they would loot the nation.

THAT’S who they decide to get rid of.


4 posted on 05/12/2015 4:42:38 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

Putting JFK on the half dollar killed that coin. I guess I can get by without using $20s.


5 posted on 05/12/2015 4:48:29 PM PDT by PAR35
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

How could feminists not vote for a woman whose name was “Mankiller”?!?!?


6 posted on 05/12/2015 4:49:43 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

And how many millions would this cost us? I’m for ditching the dollar bill, and just using the coins. A dollar bill last less than a year, the coins last darn near forever, and are not germ and virus ridden pieces of filthy paper.
I’m a cheapskate, I admit it! We have to stop throwing money around for senseless reasons like changing the 20 dollar bill, or teaching African men how to wash their weenies after sex. We’ve gone insane! We need to go on a severe austerity budget for at least ten years, maybe much longer!


7 posted on 05/12/2015 4:52:22 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

Somebody please tell me why these idiots are suddenly picking on Andrew Jackson? Why the $20 bill?


8 posted on 05/12/2015 4:54:03 PM PDT by Jean2 (ox)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

Fine with me. Jackson was a slave owning democrat. Tubman was a former slave and abolitionist republican.


9 posted on 05/12/2015 4:54:49 PM PDT by lowbridge
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

This is a ridiculous suggestion. Tumban was what we call an “achiever,” though she may only have rescued, according to historians, a handful of people. (Maybe 12.) Alas - what about Barack Obama? He is “Post-Achievement.” Barack is not only a civil rights leader as evidenced by his efforts at Ferguson, Baltimore, and on the Southern Border, etc., etc., he has also sacrificed himself for the cause of American Liberty and Justice, not only in his day-after-day lounges on couches, which he freely admits are used to observe the activities of the members of the National Basketball Association - his tireless efforts, and I could go on - most notably resulting in his receiving none other than a Nobel Peace Prize (effectively proving that he IS a post-American, enlightened, worldly President, and, on a personal note, overcoming a history of drug use, homosexuality, lying about his credentials, mysterious histories, abuse of power, supporting such things as the Born Alive Infant Protection Act which allowed babies already having been born, already crying and breathing, to escape suffocation in the linen closet... To have overcome these early sins, to have the courage to enact Executive Orders keeping us from knowing anything about Him, and become the President he is today, thanks to life-affirming Affirmative Action programs that gracefully, wisely keep qualified children such as mine from hitherto racist programs such as 1) Academia 2) Government and 3) (bane of America) Corporations and other businesses; Barack Obama is now not hust an American hero, the man who bows to foreign leaders and went down on Larry Sinclair... He’s MY President. OUR President. Not just a symbol of “Hope and Change,” as all the fans say, but truly, a beacon. Ask anyone!


10 posted on 05/12/2015 4:55:14 PM PDT by golux
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PAR35
Putting JFK on the half dollar killed that coin. I guess I can get by without using $20s.

I thought it was Martin Sheen on the half-dollars. B-) (with a nod to the movie, "The Goonies," (1985) >B-)
11 posted on 05/12/2015 4:57:09 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Jean2

His is as politically incorrect of a president as you could get. The entirety of the political left despises him, and thinks it will be an was kill to take him off the money because few Americans know anything about him.


12 posted on 05/12/2015 4:58:02 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

Love that idea. How about on the back of the bill it shows a picture of a strong and glorious America with the words Reagan invoked of a “shining city on a hill”.


13 posted on 05/12/2015 4:59:25 PM PDT by dowcaet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jean2

Some Indian casinos refuse twenty dollar bills because of Jackson’s picture...they still hold a grudge over the Trail of Tears episodes.


14 posted on 05/12/2015 5:00:35 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

Simply the left’s latest tactic to further exploit the legacy of slavery.


15 posted on 05/12/2015 5:01:23 PM PDT by SpaceBar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON
The Sacagawea Golden Dollar and the Woman it Honors

"The Sacagawea Golden Dollar, (obverse designed by Glenna Goodacre), was first issued in 2000 as a replacement for the ill-received Susan B. Anthony dollar coin. "

16 posted on 05/12/2015 5:03:35 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

Replace the picture of the man on the 20-dollar bill, and we’ll tighten the screws even faster against personal spending.


17 posted on 05/12/2015 5:06:16 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

There shouldn’t be political activists of any type on our currency. It should have pictures of national monuments and sites only.


18 posted on 05/12/2015 5:08:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islamophobia. A word created by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons. -- Andrew Cummins)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: blam
I remember the Susan B. Anthony dollar.

In the late '70s, the Army was paying us with some of these, a real pain in the arse.

19 posted on 05/12/2015 5:10:15 PM PDT by PROCON (I AM PAMELA GELLER.............(but in manly guy form :-))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: PROCON

I nominate Farrah Fawcett!


20 posted on 05/12/2015 5:11:07 PM PDT by meyer (Who needs gas chambers when you have Obamacare?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-62 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson