Posted on 02/18/2025 11:58:14 AM PST by Twotone
Democrat legislators in Washington state have mounted a movement to remove George Washington’s face from the state flag.
The image of George Washington on the state flag comes from the state seal, designed in 1889 when the Evergreen State achieved statehood. Washington state law declares, “The official flag of the state of Washington shall be of dark green silk or bunting and shall bear in its center a reproduction of the seal of the state of Washington embroidered, printed, painted or stamped thereon.” The flag was officially adopted on March 5, 1923.
Washington state was named after George Washington and is the only state named after a president.
State Reps. Strom Peterson, Julia Reed, and Greg Nance introduced House Bill 1938, which states, “While George Washington is an important national figure, he has limited historical connection to the state itself. This makes his image less meaningful as a symbol for the state.”
“If House Bill 1938 is enacted, the Washington State Flag Redesign Committee will work toward adopting a new design by July 1, 2028. The proposed design will then be submitted to voters for approval in a general election, ensuring that any change to the state flag reflects the will of Washington’s citizens,” My Northwest reported.
A Washington blogger who is supposed to testify in favor of changing the flag authored a blog titled, “The Washington State flag is deeply and historically bad and we should change it.” “Washington’s flag is uninspired. It was not the result of a broad public process but rather something we arrived at late, 34 years after statehood,” he wrote. “While the name honors a national figure, its origins reflect a moment when the voices of the people living in the region were overlooked. I’m not saying we need to go as far as changing the state’s name (that would be crazy! looks around), but we don’t need to underline it with a state flag.”
Probably another "George." Like George Floyd. Or George Soros.
So this is entirely in character. Seattle dominates the state of Washington.
Probably an image that includes a fist and a butt.
We can’t always get what we want.
I want to remove the Dems from the State of Washington.
But keep the flags the same.
If they are going to do this (which they will) they should just replace the bust of George Washington with that of George W. Bush who was pretty much the founder of Washington State.
https://www.historylink.org/File/5645
Probably want Lenin’s portrait there instead. Or perhaps John Reed albeit he was born in Portland.
Flag concept....
Should I mention there’s no unicorn?
Change the name of state while you are at it.
Marx? Lenin?
They'll probably replace George Washington with the
image of Vladimir Lenin. Doesn't Seattle have a statue
of him that was obtained from Russia?
Just change the nsame of the state to Wokeness and then design a flag that pleases everyone except whites and Asians. Maybe a big BLM flag? Better yet, just give the state back to the native Americans and let them make the decisions, that would really please the leftists, except for giving away their own property.
The solution to this “problem” can be simple. For those freaks...replace George with a pic of Booker T. Washington. I might suspect Booker T. Would think the situation to be insane.
I hope they do for obvious reasons it tells some of the last hold outs what scumbags the rodents are.
I might support it if the flag showed the whale after hitting the rocks that make up the riverbank. I’m talking about a flag that has an image that will send children running away in terror.
“Washington State Dems Want To Remove George Washington’s Image From State Flag”
I think they ought to replace it with Howdy Doody’s image to match the intellectual and talent capabilities of their state government.
They can’t help themselves
Just change flag to a vagina
Change it to Guevara and be done with it.
We could help them with a renaming contest.
How about
1. Fidelstan
2. Commieton
3. Found&Lost
4.
“The Washington flag was designed in 1914 by the Daughters of the American Revolution, who put together a flag committee led by Emma Chadwick.
They placed the state seal, a portrait of George Washington designed by brothers Charles and George Talcott, on a field of green.
It took many years, but the flag was officially adopted March 5, 1923.
It has seen one major update in 1967 when artist Richard Nelms updated the state seal, modeled after Gilbert Stuart’s famous portrait of Washington.”
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