There has to be someone else they can replace instead of Jackson.
She is historically minor figure except as a symbol.
WMAL-630 AM radio host (DC, 5:00 PM show), has very intelligently pointed out the fact that Harriet Tubman was a Republican Party member, in favor of the 2nd Amendment rights re gun ownership and carried one when she was involved in the Underground Railroad project that smuggled slaves to free states, was a patriot, and a role model for women.
O’Connor wisely asked by the Republicans (i.e. the President) didn’t nominate her for a dollar currency when they were in power. This would have preempted the Democrats and Obama from claiming credit for it, which they will do with fireworks.
I understand that the Susan B. Anthony dollar was a blazing failure (its size was all wrong) and the Sacajewa simulated gold dollar was a joke (but historically interesting).
However, as O’Connor and moi have said repeatedly, the Conservatives/Republicans/GOP miss every opportunity to preempt the Democrats/Leftists by coming up with both creative and positive policies to undercut the Democrats racist and Marxist policies and propaganda.
Perhaps this is why Trump is winning. Sane people are tired of being forced to accept things that the Left want to impose on them, only to find that the GOP establishment has less of a backbone than a jellyfish.
Let’s openly support putting Harriet Tubman on a $20 bill and tell our fellow Americans why - i.e. that Tubman was a woman for both personal freedoms and Constitutional Rights.
She was, perhaps, the first black leading woman Republican, and that is good.
Re Jackson: While he did a lot of good fighting for a sane monetary policy, he was cruel to the Indians (i.e. the Trail of Tears of the Cherokees, who were betrayed on their previous treaties with the U.S.)
Also he fought Seminoles in Florida over their land and our Army got its butt whipped in the swamps. The Seminoles are, as the story goes, the only Indian tribe that beat the US Army and maintained its freedom by a post-war treaty.
Jackson hated the American Indian which may have been a product of the times but his policies towards them cannot be forgotten or excused when they violated treaties and promises.
Andy has had a good run and will until 2030 when the new dollar comes in, so let’s praise him for what he did well, criticize him for what he did wrong, and then move on to honor a very brave Republican, black, pro-gun, pro-freedom woman who DID MORE IN ONE YEAR TO MAKE AMERICA BETTER THAN HILLARY HAS DONE IN HER LIFE-TIME.