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Pelosi orders removal of portraits of ex-House speakers who served in Confederacy
Fox News ^ | June 18, 2020 | Marisa Schultz

Posted on 06/18/2020 9:59:30 AM PDT by jazusamo

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday ordered the removal of portraits in the Capitol of previous House speakers who served in the Confederacy as part of an effort to "appropriately observe Juneteenth" on Friday.

Pelosi said she discovered the four portraits as she was taking inventory in the Capitol of Confederate statues, which she is also trying to remove but can't do unilaterally.

"Tomorrow, Juneteenth, the clerk will oversee the removal of those Confederate speakers from the House," Pelosi announced at a press conference at the Capitol. "There's no room in the hallowed halls of this democracy, this temple of democracy, to memorialize people who embody violent bigotry and grotesque racism of the Confederacy."

Pelosi sent a letter to the House Clerk Cheryl Johnson requesting the removal of four previous House Speakers to honor Juneteenth, which is observed June 19 and commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States.

“To appropriately observe Juneteenth this year, I write today to request the immediate removal of the portraits in the U.S. Capitol of four previous Speakers who served in the Confederacy: Robert Hunter of Virginia (1839-1841), Howell Cobb of Georgia (1849-1851), James Orr of South Carolina (1857-1859), and Charles Crisp of Georgia (1891-1895),"...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: botox; charlescrisp; confederacy; confederatedemocrats; housespeakers; howellcobb; jamesorr; juneteenth; nancypelosi; pelosi; portraits; removeportraits; roberthunter; sanfrancisco; sanfrannan
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To: jazusamo

I’m ASSUMING the cumb dunt didn’t have a Bonfire of the Vanities on the steps of the Capital, however...


21 posted on 06/18/2020 10:12:06 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: jazusamo

Nan there is no place for traitors like you.


22 posted on 06/18/2020 10:12:06 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: jazusamo

How odd - all these speakers were Democrats. lol...


23 posted on 06/18/2020 10:12:45 AM PDT by TomServo
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To: jonascord

“Capitol”


24 posted on 06/18/2020 10:13:28 AM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: jazusamo

American Taliban


25 posted on 06/18/2020 10:13:43 AM PDT by kanawa ((Trump Loves a Great Deal (NorthernSentinel)))
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To: jazusamo

26 posted on 06/18/2020 10:13:51 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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To: jazusamo

Juneteenth ... because let’s just celebrate collective stupidity. Why not go all in and call it “Juneteemf”?


27 posted on 06/18/2020 10:13:57 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Paleoconservatives were right about literally everything.)
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To: CodeToad
We need to remove Democrats since they were the party of slavery!

She doesn't realize that the torpedo she has fired will eventually seek her out and sink her vessel, the demonicRAT Party. Just like that Russian submarine captain in Hunt for Red October.

28 posted on 06/18/2020 10:14:34 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: All

Charles Crisp was around 16 years old when the Civil War broke out. For signing up as a teenager he becomes an Unperson.


29 posted on 06/18/2020 10:15:14 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: jazusamo

Isn’t that something like the people’s house too what are we going to put in its place Robert Byrd


30 posted on 06/18/2020 10:15:21 AM PDT by Rj Snows (Some years back Sacramento area used to be the capital of tomatoes)
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To: SMARTY

>>>I think that means “out-of-touch”...and maybe she just lost the ‘south’ on election day<<<

Hate to break the News to you, but there are plenty of Democrat Voters in the South. The only difference between them and the Pelosi Liberals is that Southern Liberals are Polite.

If Heels up Harris is Biden’s VP Choice, they will get 99% of Black Viters in the South. If not, it will only be 95%.

Don’t doubt me...


31 posted on 06/18/2020 10:15:38 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: jazusamo

Entirely consistent, when you see that the decoration in the House of two enormous fascses book-ending the Speaker’s seat!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces
She is actually THE fascist leader, as represented by her office of decoration.


32 posted on 06/18/2020 10:15:40 AM PDT by JungleGoat77 (.)
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To: CodeToad

Every dem speaker from the last 50 years that supported abortion’s racist agenda against blacks......Annnnd yes Nancy,that would include you....


33 posted on 06/18/2020 10:16:20 AM PDT by Hambone 1934
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To: All; jazusamo
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday ordered the removal of portraits in the Capitol of previous DEMOCRATIC House speakers who served in the Confederacy as part of an effort to "appropriately observe Juneteenth" on Friday."

Had to fix that for Fox

34 posted on 06/18/2020 10:16:50 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Vote Giant Meteor in 2020)
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To: jazusamo

She’s probably going to probably take them home with her since they were all probably democrats. Maybe she can have some refrigerator magnets made up with them.


35 posted on 06/18/2020 10:18:40 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.for corruptiion)
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To: jazusamo

Maybe they should rename “The Peoples House” to “Pelosi’s House”.


36 posted on 06/18/2020 10:18:54 AM PDT by Ben Mugged (He who lacks the will does not need the ability.)
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To: jazusamo
Why not remove the historical desks in the House chamber where now-disfavored Americans once represented their constituents?

Why not tear down the large portions of the U.S. Capitol designed by Jefferson Davis?

With media backing, Pelosi now has the power to complete the mission of the fourth 9/11 airplane.

37 posted on 06/18/2020 10:19:16 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jazusamo

She didn’t think this through because I’d bet the majority were racist Democrats. Old Sam Rayburn was a real piece of work. LBJ loved that POS.


38 posted on 06/18/2020 10:23:49 AM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Veggie Todd

Along those lines ANTIFA is the modern day KKK.


39 posted on 06/18/2020 10:24:48 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.for corruptiion)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Well-I’m thinking of all the people I have ever met from the south and who (politics aside) positively revere their Civil War heroes.

Almost a religion with those guys


40 posted on 06/18/2020 10:25:29 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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