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Illinois makes 'Barack Obama Day' a state holiday
The Hill ^

Posted on 08/06/2017 12:48:47 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Illinois makes 'Barack Obama Day' a state holiday

By Brandon Carter - 08/06/17 02:25 PM EDT

Former President Obama is being honored with a new state holiday in his former state of Illinois.

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) signed a measure Friday to make Aug. 4 “Barack Obama Day” in the state, according to NBC Chicago. The holiday will be celebrated each year on Obama’s birthday beginning in 2018.

The day is “set apart to honor the 44th President of the United States of America who began his career serving the People of Illinois in both the Illinois State Senate and the United States Senate, and dedicated his life to protecting the rights of Americans and building bridges across communities.”

Senate Bill 55 was passed by both state houses with no votes against it.

Rauner praised the idea behind the bill earlier this year after a previous version, which would have made the day a legal state holiday, failed. The new holiday is commemorative.

"It's incredibly proud for Illinois that the president came from Illinois. I think it's awesome, and I think we should celebrate it," Rauner said at the time, according to NBC Chicago. "I don't think it should be a formal holiday with paid, forced time off, but I think it should be a day of acknowledgment and celebration."

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Put a damn dollar figure on it.............
1 posted on 08/06/2017 12:48:47 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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I’m glad Illinois is in such a strong fiscal condition these days.


2 posted on 08/06/2017 12:49:28 PM PDT by rdl6989
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100 bucks says that McCain and Flake insist on the same for Arizona too


3 posted on 08/06/2017 12:51:56 PM PDT by WashingtonFire (President Trump - it's like having your dad as President !)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yeah celebrate dis functional arrogance day


4 posted on 08/06/2017 12:52:37 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: Sub-Driver

Failed state celebrates failed Preezy...


5 posted on 08/06/2017 12:55:40 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (You for avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Sub-Driver

A Chicago shooting on Obama day is sacrilegious.


6 posted on 08/06/2017 12:56:17 PM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: Sub-Driver

Gay oral sex for every man! Happy Barack Obama Day! All bathhouses 50% off!


7 posted on 08/06/2017 12:58:18 PM PDT by Yaelle (We have a Crisis of Information in this country. Our enemies hold the megaphone.)
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To: rdl6989; Sub-Driver
"Put a damn dollar figure on it............. "

No money involved. It's another "feel good" holiday.

Same as "National Hot Dog Day" or last week's "Ice Cream Sandwich Day". The black communities will have celebrations at their community centers for the local news stations to see and film but everybody else will be working...just like every other day.

8 posted on 08/06/2017 1:00:02 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: rdl6989

Unpaid holiday....


9 posted on 08/06/2017 1:01:52 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Sub-Driver

Is anybody still alive and working in Chicago?


10 posted on 08/06/2017 1:01:57 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Sub-Driver

I hope his birthday doesn’t become a national holiday after he is gone.


11 posted on 08/06/2017 1:03:45 PM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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Now if they’d have made it ‘Barack Obama Urinal Target Day’ they’d have something...


12 posted on 08/06/2017 1:04:41 PM PDT by Noumenon (Can you imagine if Islam were NOT the religion of peace?)
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The perfect day to snake out your floor drain. Or turn over your compost pile. Barn need mucking out? No time like BO Day!


13 posted on 08/06/2017 1:05:04 PM PDT by IronJack
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After eating a big meal of Sauerkraut AND PORK, I’ll be sure to stand at the very edge of the borer with the wind blowing to bare butt into Illinois. Then stand path the every, edge and fart with my bare butt at the State.


14 posted on 08/06/2017 1:05:21 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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Shouldn’t President Reagan have a day? I believe he was born in IL.

Anyway, BO wasn’t even born in IL. Where? Who knows.....


15 posted on 08/06/2017 1:10:04 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (<)
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To: WashingtonFire
Yeah...Arizona needed a little nudging to recognize Martin Luther King Day.
16 posted on 08/06/2017 1:10:26 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (Government can make you feel so small and mean.-John Steinbeck)
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thanks 0bama


17 posted on 08/06/2017 1:13:37 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Sub-Driver

Make it 11 September....or 7 December.


18 posted on 08/06/2017 1:14:25 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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19 posted on 08/06/2017 1:16:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.))
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To: Hotlanta Mike

How appropriate in illnnoy. Next there will be a Broadway “Obama years-the musical”.


20 posted on 08/06/2017 1:18:01 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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