Posted on 07/06/2015 5:32:50 PM PDT by dennisw
The Obama administration will likely block Washington, D.C., authorities from building a new stadium for the NFL's Washington Redskins because of objections to the team’s name.
The National Park Service (NPS) owns the land under the 54-year-old Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, a venue two miles east of the Capitol that hosted the Redskins from 1961 to 1996. Some city leaders want to demolish the current stadium and build a new one to lure the football team back from suburban Maryland.
But Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, whose department includes the NPS, told D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser in April that, unless the Redskins change their name, the Obama administration would not work to accommodate construction of a new venue, according to The Washington Post. In a letter a month later, a local NPS official told Bowser the agency opposed the idea of building a new stadium.
“As I believe the Secretary made clear in our discussion, the NPS will not take a position in support of such an extension at this time,” Robert A. Vogel, a regional NPS director, wrote in the letter obtained by the Post.
Vogel told Bowser she and her staff are nonetheless free to pursue legislation that would authorize the construction.
Jewell, who also oversees the agency responsible for federal relations with American Indian tribes, has criticized the Redskins name as a relic of the past, an opinion President Obama shares.
“Personally, I think we would never consider naming a team the ‘Blackskins’ or the ‘Brownskins’ or the ‘Whiteskins,’ ” Jewell said last year.
“So, personally, I find it surprising that in this day and age, the name is not different,” she continued.
Obama has also said he would change the name if he could.
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^ still stands whether the story was debunked or not....
After Jan 2017, the anti-Christ won’t have a say.
One of the leaders of the Coast Guard, or perhaps the top CG Admiral, has an amazing record of accomplishments (I read her CV the other day). I hope that she earned it all by her performance and competency.
If so, we need more women like her.
How the hell do these pansies have anyway in the matter?!?
Damned ipad spell checker... “Any say”
As long as you pay for it yourselves with no tax money I don’t give a fig what is done with the land.
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Don’t bet on it!
He doesn’t make the decisions anyway.
Congress does. I fail to see how that includes the tyrant Obama and the National Park Service.
You know, I’m fairly certain that my fathers generation fought a WORLD WAR, to rid this planet of fascist, and here we have them, not only in the midst of the populous, but in the frick’n White House.
I miss him dearly, but our Father called him home five months before Barry usurped the executive branch.
Oh and he knew what was coming. If his yelling at the news casts were any indication. I thank God that He called him home whilst taking a nap with the TV off. And not by a massive coronary screaming at the news.
All they want is the “greenskins” handed to them under the table. . .that’s ALL that matters to the theives that run Washington D.C.
This is all BS. Redskins have no plans for DC. Best bet is they will go to VA...imho
what a petty little man this quota boy is.
LOL. Thanks. Yep just imagine if the girls in PE played shirts vs. Skins. LOL.
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