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Showing Original Post only (View all)Virginia will eliminate a state holiday honoring Lee and Jackson, replaced by Election Day holiday [View all]
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/07/politics/virginia-ends-confederate-holiday-replace-election-day-trnd/index.html
By Scottie Andrew, CNN
Updated 9:30 AM ET, Fri February 7, 2020
(CNN)Virginia is one step closer to ending its tradition of honoring Confederate generals.
This week, the Virginia House voted to strike Lee-Jackson Day from the list of state holidays. The holiday, observed on the Friday before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in January, honors Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson as "defenders of causes."
Both men owned slaves and fought to preserve slavery in the US.
In its place, the House bill proposed that the state replace it with Election Day, the first Tuesday after the First Monday in November, instead.
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"We need to make Election Day a holiday," he said in his State of the Commonwealth speech last month. "We can do it by ending the Lee-Jackson holiday that Virginia holds ... It commemorates a lost cause. It's time to move on."
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN
Updated 9:30 AM ET, Fri February 7, 2020
(CNN)Virginia is one step closer to ending its tradition of honoring Confederate generals.
This week, the Virginia House voted to strike Lee-Jackson Day from the list of state holidays. The holiday, observed on the Friday before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in January, honors Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson as "defenders of causes."
Both men owned slaves and fought to preserve slavery in the US.
In its place, the House bill proposed that the state replace it with Election Day, the first Tuesday after the First Monday in November, instead.
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"We need to make Election Day a holiday," he said in his State of the Commonwealth speech last month. "We can do it by ending the Lee-Jackson holiday that Virginia holds ... It commemorates a lost cause. It's time to move on."
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Virginia will eliminate a state holiday honoring Lee and Jackson, replaced by Election Day holiday [View all]
Dennis Donovan
Feb 2020
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The north also had Thomas and Sheridan. Both were as important as Grant and Sherman. nt
Blue_true
Feb 2020
#72
I'm all for a "Donald J. Trump Memorial Urinal" in all federal government building restrooms.
Brother Mythos
Feb 2020
#67
In 2017 and 2019, we came (to the pollls), we saw (GOP evil), we conquered (the VA gov't)
lagomorph777
Feb 2020
#17
"In its place, the House bill proposed that the state replace it with Election Day, the first Tuesda
spooky3
Feb 2020
#6
If Virginia doesn't have early voting, it will get it now that democrats control things.
Blue_true
Feb 2020
#76
As a Virginian, it makes me proud that the Democratic majority is righting numerous wrongs
Nitram
Feb 2020
#22
Va Senate passed a bill allowing for damage insurance instead of security deposit
underpants
Feb 2020
#29
How patriotic! No more celebrating traitor generals who killed US soldiers to protect slavery!
SunSeeker
Feb 2020
#55
To quell the outrage they should rename it "Extra Day Off During Hunting Season Day."
dameatball
Feb 2020
#64
I understand. The post was not about "good hunters" just a jab at those who would be
dameatball
Feb 2020
#81
We've had many steps backward under traitortrump. This is a nice step forward
amuse bouche
Feb 2020
#68
Those who say there is no difference between democrats and republicans in the modern era,
Blue_true
Feb 2020
#70
Republican business owners can still give their employees a paid holiday for Lee/Jackson.
keithbvadu2
Feb 2020
#78