Posted on 08/31/2015 12:25:31 PM PDT by Jim W N
Ohio lawmakers reacted angrily Sunday to the White House's announcement that President Obama would formally rename Alaska's Mt. McKinley — North America's highest peak — "Denali" during his trip to The Last Frontier this week.
"Mount McKinley ... has held the name of our nation's 25th President for over 100 years," Rep. Bob Gibbs, R-Ohio, said in a statement. "This landmark is a testament to his countless years of service to our country." Gibbs also described Obama's action as "constitutional overreach," saying that an act of Congress was required to rename the mountain, because a law formally naming it after Ohio's William McKinley was passed in 1917.
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The state of Alaska has been asking for this change for decades.
I thought the name had been changed years ago since I’ve heard it called Denali so often
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The mountain was evidently named while Alaska was still a US territory, corrections welcome. But since the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to name intrastate places, unless Alaska agreed to call it Mt. McKinley when the state was admitted to the Union, Alaska has the 10th Amendment-protected power to call it anything that they want to imo. Likewise for geographical places in other states.
I’m looking forward to Hawaii changing the names of its mountains, streets and beaches to something American.
LOL!
Obama is going to rename the United States of America on his last day in office to Obamaland.....
“Gee, I’m surprised he didn’t name it Mt. Obama.”
Alexander Hamilton is being removed from the $10 bill to make place for an as yet unnamed woman.
Mt. McKinley is being renamed.
Congress does nothing in response.
Over the next 18 months we will likely see many federally owned properties renamed and further changes to our coinage and paper money. Expect all military bases, federal buildings, and ships currently bearing the names of Confederate generals or former slaveholders in the pre Civil War era to be renamed.
Congress will do nothing in response.
How long before they take Ronald Reagan’s name off of the Washington D.C. airport?
Alaska renamed the mountain in 1980. We have been waiting for the Feds to come around since before then.
Denali is the name of the mountain given to it by the first people to live in what is now Alaska.
The name McKinley was given to it by a prospector in I think 1917.
Alaskans have tried for over 40 years to get it changed in Congress, and the *only* people opposed to it have been Ohio politicians.
McKinley never visited the state, never saw the mountain. There is absolutely nothing to tie him to the mountain except for one prospector.
If you come to Alaska, you will hear it referred to as Denali.
It’s high time that Ohio politicians worry about their own state and not ours.
Seemingly the point is to deliberately erode the American heritage... and the “Republican” Congress stays mute.
Hope so. All that’s needed now is for Alaska to reclaim ALASKA’S land.
Good.
Then all that remains in this issue is for Alaska to reclaim THEIR land.
Considering the FACT he’s not LEGALLY the POTUS, Sultan Hussein does as he pleases.
SHUT UP Ohio lawmakers
If you want named mountain after US president do in your hood sweeties
I named that pile in my honey wagon Mt. Obama.
Reggie and Michael already have that title.
Yo ole Sar’hint! I retired from the NPS in August 1986. As I remember all National Parks, monuments etc. are established by Congress with approval of the state.
I’d like to be a little bird when this was taken to court.
I think it’s probably a very good bet that Obama already knows what he would rename the United States of America.
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