Posted on 04/18/2015 9:20:30 AM PDT by shove_it
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) The first woman to serve as both governor and U.S. senator is backing a campaign to put a female face on the $20 bill.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen filed legislation this week that would create a citizens panel to recommend an appropriate choice to the treasury secretary. She is hoping to build on the work of Women on 20s, a national campaign pushing for new $20 bills by 2020, the 100th anniversary of the constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote.
"I think there are a lot of opportunities that we sometimes don't think about to point out the significant contributions women have made in U.S. history," Shaheen said. "And this is one of those opportunities."
The current portrait of former President Andrew Jackson has stared out from the face of the $20 since 1928. But paper currency is redesigned every seven to 10 years to thwart counterfeiters, and the latest $20 notes entered circulation in 2003. Changes can be ordered by the treasury secretary or president without an act of Congress, and Shaheen's bill wouldn't compel either to do so. Still, she and campaign supporters hope it will boost public support for redesigning the currency and spur broader conversation about the achievements of American women...
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Opra?
Nice touch with the ‘rainbow’ effect.
Soviet Red Hampshire just re-elected this towering intellect...now on to the Presidential primaries...yahoo!
No. You don’t put Barack on the 8 dollar bill. He goes on the 3 dollar bill, as in queer as a 3 dollar bill.
I’d rather see Kate Upton on the 20 dollar bill.
During Reagan’s term, Iran counterfeited the US dollar. Putting women on our currency would stop that! :)
I think they do just fine on dollar coins.
Why does any woman deserve to be the $20?
Maybe they could do a new $20 that has both Jackson and his wife on it. Of course she was never First Lady--she died between when Jackson won the election and when he was inaugurated.
Another idea would be to replace the men on the different denominations with a woman associated with them--Sally Fairfax on the $1 bill, Sally Hemings on the $2 bill, Ann Rutledge on the $5 bill (if there is any likeness of her preserved), one of Hamilton's married lovers (I think one of them was a Mrs. Reynolds) on the $10, Lucy Mercer on the dime, etc.
So what you are saying is that all the women you are nominating, is solely because of the men they are associated with.
IE because they were in these mens’ shadows. Because that’s the primary reasons their names are even known.
Of course, the country could elect someone next year whose name would not be known if not for her husband. Or perhaps she would be known as a loud-mouth Congresswoman elected from a heavily Democratic district in the Chicago area.
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