Posted on 08/20/2015 7:47:34 AM PDT by PROCON
RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. - A dividing highway in Riviera Beach is becoming historic again.
A proposal to rename Old Dixie Highway to Barack Obama Highway ultimately passed in Riviera Beach, but not without hitting some speed bumps.
"I got a little worried for a minute, because we didn't seem at first to have the majority," said Mayor Thomas Masters, City of Riviera Beach.
There was plenty of approval from the crowd to remove Old Dixie Highway from 1st Street to Silver Beach Road.
"You have the chance to right the wrong and make a new chapter," said one woman who gave public comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at wptv.com ...
It is so stupid to name things after living politicians. Doubly worse it is Obama...
Racial and PC hysteria run amok.
WHY would we want anything in America that has this muslim brotherhood leader on this Country?
I’m hoping that he will be stricken from all of everything and will never be mentioned he even stepped foot in this country...and that includes the ‘joke of a presidency’ he thinks he had.....
Legacy???? What legacy??? Don’t worry Carter, you’ll still be up there with the dumbest president of our country....
Great graphic
Don’t let the word beach fool ya..
Changing the name of Dixie Hi-Way will at least give non-locals an idea what they are in for.....This town sucks
It will attract tourists like MLK Blvd
Dixie is a bad word?
Good grief... these PC worshiping idiots... I swear....
Can’t they at least wait until he’s dead?
Oreo Way! I like it.
Stupid is not just ignorant. It is arrogant. The election of Obama demonstrates the depth of raunch in this country. We have wrapped our annihilation in a flag of moral indifference and awarded the prize to the most heinous malignancy possible.
We have sunk to the bottom of the pit. I trust the angel wings are not far off.
Riviera Beach is 65% Black..no surprises here
Apparently they aren’t looking for any tourist monies in this city.
Color me surprised.
Riviera beach is mostly a black community and this strech of Old Dixie Hwy. Is famous for run down bars where they go on weekends to get killed.
Never mind. In just a few short years, trends will change, heroes will emerge - temporarily - Obama will be passé & something else will come along & they’ll be arguing the “new” name of the highway.
Just change it to ISIS Hwy.
Why not call it “Highway to Hell?” Pretty much the same thing.
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