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Mass. lawmaker: Rename ‘General Hooker Entrance’ to state house; it’s ‘offensive’ to women
Washington Times ^
| March 17, 2017
| Ken Shepherd
Posted on 03/18/2018 10:04:17 AM PDT by C19fan
A Bay State lawmaker is calling on her colleagues to change the sign to an entrance for the Massachusetts State House named after Joseph Hooker, a Union general in the Civil War, saying his surname is tied up with a slang term for prostitutes and is demeaning to women.
Female staffers dont use that entrance because the sign is offensive to them, State Rep. Michelle DuBois, Brockton Democrat, told CBS Boston in a recently aired interview.
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TOPICS: History; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: dubois; feminism; hooker; josephhooker; massachusetts; mediawingofthednc; metoo; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; statehouse
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To: C19fan
As long as we're wasting time on this stuff vs lowering taxes etc., someone inform this pol she's got some work ahead of her.
To: Jim 0216
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:25:47 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Good one.
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:25:59 AM PDT
by
Jim W N
To: C19fan
Lets ban all books from Phillip K. Dick and all music from John Lee Hooker too.
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:26:33 AM PDT
by
lefty-lie-spy
(Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
To: Menehune56
"Perhaps just a rename to Hooker Entrance." Maybe she'd prefer it if they changed "Entrance" to "Passageway".
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:27:26 AM PDT
by
Songcraft
("Pray without ceasing." 1 Thessalonians 5:17)
To: Olog-hai
Notice, they don’t drug test these people that look like females before they go into government. Probably would test with enough testosterone to be a man.
Oof.
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:30:12 AM PDT
by
Jim W N
To: Jim 0216
Never mind the DNA profile.
Not that DuBois looks too much like a female.
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:31:31 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: C19fan
cuz there are no liberal heroes with offensive names.....?
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:31:34 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: C19fan
Can someone create a dictionary of what is NOT offensive?
We already have many dictionaries of all the words that someone (usually a liberal) can find offensive. For example
To: C19fan
So stupid and stubborn, that I’ll bet someone told her it was a Generals name, and she didn’t care. Also, men can’t be hookers? What about those “trans” hookers, who identify as men?
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:36:20 AM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
To: C19fan
It sounds to me as though the retarded Ms DuBois thinks all women are hookers. Typical “democrat”.
To: C19fan

the epitome of victim hood combined with public school illiteracy
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:47:34 AM PDT
by
Chode
(You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
To: C19fan
The Fuch family is not amused.
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:48:27 AM PDT
by
healy61
To: C19fan
Is there any proof her claim is true that women avoid the entrance due to the name? I can’t imagine being that juvenile.
Attention ho.
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:50:33 AM PDT
by
GnuThere
To: DoodleBob
I would have used Climax for Georgia and substituted French Broad for North Carolina. And who would not have included French Lick, Indiana.
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:51:21 AM PDT
by
PAR35
To: DoodleBob
"Mary's Igloo"
LOL. I've been there, figuratively speaking.
To: C19fan
You forgot, Big Bone Lick, Kentucky. And Climax, Michigan.
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:54:32 AM PDT
by
healy61
To: C19fan
After all the hookers legislators..not to mention Kennedys...invited through there NOW they get offended?
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posted on
03/18/2018 10:55:39 AM PDT
by
ClearBlueSky
(ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
To: C19fan
This is the type that will demand that the terrible ASSAULT Musket be removed from the statue of the MINUTEMEN guarding the bridge from the Redcoats.
Next will be the famous painting of the Pilgrim fathers walking to Church on Sundays, likewise fully armed with the ASSAULT weapons of the day. It must be taken down and hidden.
To: C19fan
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