Tim Tebow, others cut from replacement statue list (FL)

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JIM ROSICA
5 hours ago

... former Florida Gator quarterback Tim Tebow will not be immortalized ... in the U.S. Capitol.

Nor will .. adult film star and Florida native Riley Reid ...

They were among nominees proposed .. to replace a statue of a Confederate Army general .. in the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall ...

Third place was claimed by GOP U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, also not dead. He received 27 votes, or 28 if you count a debatable entry for “Little Marco’s tiny … ,” followed by the word for a certain male body part ...

http://floridapolitics.com/archives/214382-ineligible-list-new-statue

[Aristus]

1. Unless it is a statue to honor overhyped, self-important mediocrities,

his removal from the list is entirely justified.

[struggle4progress]

2. He didn't actually qualify under the dead-for-a-decade rule

[Aristus]

3. Neither did his career.

That's still got four or five years to go...