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Obummer! Board nixes bid to rename Jersey City school for prez
The Jersey Journal ^ | August 26, 2016

Posted on 08/26/2016 10:18:06 AM PDT by SMGFan

President Obama can't catch a break in Jersey City.

A first-term assemblywoman's effort to rename a city elementary school after the nation's first black president fizzled this week when the school board rejected the move, two months after the board approved naming a different school after Maya Angelou instead of Obama.

The board's action this week came amid accusations of backroom deals and officials being left in the dark about the school renaming process. And it has left Assemblywoman Angela McKnight, who made renaming a Jersey City school after Obama one of her first initiatives after taking office in January, livid.

(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey
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To: DarthVader

well dad was in the service in the early 60’s so I was born at Ft. Campbell, KY


21 posted on 08/26/2016 11:47:03 AM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar -- Yes, I know, she now supports HRC :()
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To: Made In The USA

Even if you want to name your school after a Black American there are a whole slew of better choices than Obama and Angelou.


22 posted on 08/26/2016 12:01:50 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Al Sharpton High School
Home of the Fighting Perpetually Aggrieved


23 posted on 08/26/2016 12:04:50 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: SMGFan

Transgender High?


24 posted on 08/26/2016 12:04:54 PM PDT by Leep (Cut the crap!)
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To: SMGFan

Billy Ray Valentine School for the Enterprising.


25 posted on 08/26/2016 12:09:03 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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