Posted on 04/18/2015 9:20:30 AM PDT by shove_it
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The first woman to serve as both governor and U.S. senator is backing a campaign to put a female face on the $20 bill.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen filed legislation this week that would create a citizens panel to recommend an appropriate choice to the treasury secretary. She is hoping to build on the work of Women on 20s, a national campaign pushing for new $20 bills by 2020, the 100th anniversary of the constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote.
"I think there are a lot of opportunities that we sometimes don't think about to point out the significant contributions women have made in U.S. history," Shaheen said. "And this is one of those opportunities."
The current portrait of former President Andrew Jackson has stared out from the face of the $20 since 1928. But paper currency is redesigned every seven to 10 years to thwart counterfeiters, and the latest $20 notes entered circulation in 2003. Changes can be ordered by the treasury secretary or president without an act of Congress, and Shaheen's bill wouldn't compel either to do so. Still, she and campaign supporters hope it will boost public support for redesigning the currency and spur broader conversation about the achievements of American women...
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It would be disrespectful to put an image of an Indian on currency. No, no. We can’t do that.
AND she was a Quaker and quite modern for a woman of that day... Betsy Ross might be an interesting choice.
We have no queen or our Margaret Thatcher yet.
Of the four mystically chosen finalists, I’ll take Harriet Tubman, rather than two progressives (Roosevelt; Parks) or a woman named Mankiller.
females are on the $1 coin but the consumer is not smart enough to use these coins
Until a woman orders her troops to fire upon their own farm and mansion, because it had been captured by enemy troops and because his troops were gunshy about destroying his home, we can find plenty of patriots that deserve to be on money.
“How about Octo-mom? She’s a woman.”
No, that’s just a perambulating vagina!
Marie Antoinette.
“Shaheen considering herself no doubt.”
How about Rosa DeLauro? Only problem is that the money would catch fire when it came out. Talk about ugly, she personifies it, then she opens her mouth and all doubts are erased.
-PJ
You mean like Elizabeth Warren?
In my opinion they should be on all the money. The honesty would be refreshing.
Let’s just make it a black woman so we can kill two birds with one stone, because you can bet if it’s a white woman, the blacks will start complaining that there are no blacks on a bill.
Plus, I’ve always liked the theme from the tv show “Maude”. ;’)
probably the push is for the push for the coronation of our Queen.
Leave the money alone.
cracked me up..lol..quickly followed by a hell no!
If they want a Native American, I would vote for Pocahontas (as depicted during or soon after her lifetime, not the Disney rendition). But because the current image is Andrew Jackson, I think John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, or Nicholas Biddle would be better replacements.
If any American gets added to our currency it had better be Neil Armstrong or I’m burning everything down.
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