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Movin’ on out: De Blasio booting Founding Father Jefferson from City Hall
NY Post ^ | 10/13/2021 | Julia Marsh

Posted on 10/13/2021 9:52:50 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has just three months left in office, is quietly banishing a statue of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson from City Hall’s council chambers — where it has resided for the past 187 years, The Post has learned.

The city’s Public Design Commission — comprised of mayoral appointees — has listed “the long term loan” of the 1833 bronze cast of the Declaration of Independence author to the New-York Historical Society on its “consent” agenda for Monday.

The consent designation means the historic statue’s removal is not scheduled for public debate. The 11-member design commission will vote on de Blasio’s Jefferson exile after reviewing public comments, a City Hall spokesman said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: akadeblasio; billdeblasio; booting; cancelculture; cityhall; deblasio; godsgravesglyphs; jefferson; newyork; newyorkcity; thomasjefferson
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To: upsdriver

Where has a forensic audit stopped election fraud & theft?


21 posted on 10/13/2021 10:51:54 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Couldn’t they have just painted the statue black?


22 posted on 10/13/2021 11:10:51 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: BenLurkin

The mayors wife glibly dismisses Jefferons’ s statue and thinks this is some kind of justice done.

She is a know nothing, a tool, as you all well know for the woke crowd.

Does she not know history

She should have approached the descendents

of the Jefferson - Hemming union who are

well documented.

Imho its a slap in the face to these people

who do cling to their ancestry and are proud

of it. THEY arent ashamed of their background.

McCrae with a smile and wave of a hand

dismisses an entire group of people who

are descendents of a slave.

Have a nice day


23 posted on 10/13/2021 11:40:14 AM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Let’s be fair.
Does the New York City Hall deserve to have a bust of Thomas Jefferson in it?
Find a home for it in a small Southern town.


24 posted on 10/13/2021 11:47:39 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: NohSpinZone

o what of Columbus Circle? Surely that can’t stand with these woke fools in charge?

Oh, that’s been changed to Indigent Round-about.


25 posted on 10/13/2021 11:51:36 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: windsorknot

Not to forget Chairman Mao Zedong


26 posted on 10/13/2021 11:56:29 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: windsorknot

Yet they have not even broached renaming the FDR Drive...


27 posted on 10/13/2021 11:58:38 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: windsorknot

your post of “Making room for a statue of Lenin or Marx” was also my thought.


28 posted on 10/13/2021 12:31:21 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: windsorknot; ChicagoConservative27

On 2d thought, I’ll add Mao to the list.


29 posted on 10/13/2021 12:34:35 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: tet68
Oh, that’s been changed to Indigent Round-about.

LMAO!!!!

30 posted on 10/13/2021 1:54:53 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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