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Jack Lew nears decision to keep Hamilton on front of $10 bill, put a woman on the $20
CNN ^
| April 16, 2016
| Kevin Liptak and Antoine Sanfuentes
Posted on 04/16/2016 9:02:05 PM PDT by PROCON
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is expected to announce this week that Alexander Hamilton's face will remain on the front of the $10 bill and a woman will replace Andrew Jackson on the face of the $20 bill, a senior government source told CNN on Saturday.
Lew announced last summer that he was considering redesigning the $10 bill to include the portrait of a woman. The decision to make the historic change at the expense of Hamilton drew angry rebukes from fans of the former Treasury Secretary. The pro-Hamilton movement gained steam after the smash success of the hip-hop Broadway musical about his life this year.
Those pressures led Lew to determine that Hamilton should remain on the front of the bill. Instead, a mural-style depiction of the women's suffrage movement -- including images of leaders such as Susan B. Anthony -- will be featured on the back of the bill.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alexanderhamilton; andrewjackson; currency; jacklew; money; treasury; womyn
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To: Blue Jays
They could use an image of the Statue Of Liberty. That would not offend conservatives, therefore it will not be considered.
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posted on
04/16/2016 10:28:35 PM PDT
by
TChad
To: PROCON
I don’t believe the Broadway “smash” really had anything to do with it.
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posted on
04/16/2016 10:36:14 PM PDT
by
Crucial
(The more dysfunctional the society, the more need for powerful governmental power to control it.)
To: Paradox
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posted on
04/16/2016 10:37:46 PM PDT
by
Crucial
(The more dysfunctional the society, the more need for powerful governmental power to control it.)
To: PROCON
Tell the libs that Hamilton’s paper just endorsed Trump and they’ll be ready to dump him.
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posted on
04/16/2016 10:39:21 PM PDT
by
Rastus
(The next president will be Trump or Hillary. Vote accordingly.)
To: TChad
That would not offend conservatives, therefore it will not be considered. What was I thinking? She's for unlimited immigration. She'd be perfect!
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posted on
04/16/2016 10:43:18 PM PDT
by
TChad
To: PROCON
I don’t want to think what he has in store for the last several hundred days.
he (and his piece of #### voters) will have left almost nothing to build on.
He is a wrecking ball and he keeps swinging.
46
posted on
04/16/2016 10:52:06 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: PROCON
I vote for her:
The Statue of Freedom on the Capitol dome.
There's precedence:
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posted on
04/16/2016 10:52:42 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: PLMerite
Or this woman:
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posted on
04/16/2016 10:55:22 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: PROCON
When this first came up, I thought it was rather rude that they they put Andrew Jackson on any Federal Reserve note.
To: PROCON
There is no woman that deserves to be on the $20.
This is about sexist pandering and destroying “old white guys”.
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posted on
04/16/2016 11:00:01 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: PROCON
$10 bill isn’t IN OUR FACE enough.. They want to change the Bill most commonly dispensed by ATM’s, the $20. Constant reminder of our ‘hopey changey’ prez. FUBO!
To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
Harriet Tubman works for me. That was one powerful story, and if putting her there brings more attention to her and her accomplishments - it would be a great thing.
To: PROCON
The conservative in me says don’t change he faces on any of our money.
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posted on
04/16/2016 11:05:52 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
To: PROCON
Who decides this stuff, and why do we need change? Leave the #$@&&! thing alone!
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posted on
04/16/2016 11:08:40 PM PDT
by
imardmd1
(Fiat Lux)
To: PROCON
Lilly Wachowski meets the new and improved criteria.
55
posted on
04/16/2016 11:09:35 PM PDT
by
deadrock
(I is someone else.)
To: Mears
Nah. Too hard to register skin tones in black and white, Let's go for the Most easily recognized American woman anywhere on the globe. I'm for
Whistler's Mother!
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posted on
04/16/2016 11:15:00 PM PDT
by
imardmd1
(Fiat Lux)
To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
How ‘bout Sarah Palin? Let’s make some liberal heads explode.
Or Lady Liberty.
Or Betsy Ross.
Or Martha Washington.
Or, better yet, Ronald Reagan!
To: The Spirit Of Allegiance
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posted on
04/16/2016 11:22:18 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(gonna need a lot of rope and lamposts and gibbets after this primary season.....)
To: Kickass Conservative
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posted on
04/16/2016 11:23:29 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(gonna need a lot of rope and lamposts and gibbets after this primary season.....)
To: PROCON
I’d be okay with Annie Oakley on the $20 - posing with her rifle.
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