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 don’t 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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Crap like this gives me another reason to be glad that I USED to live in Brockton, back when it was a decent city. Last time I was there, half of what wasn’t burned out looked like a 3rd world he!! hole.
It’s a shame what rampant unchecked immigration (mostly from Haiti and Cape Verde, as I recall) and a bunch of crooked politicos can do to a place.
Ah...yes. Of course.
Silly me.
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