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Rauner signs bill creating ‘Barack Obama Day’
Illinois Policy Institute ^ | August 4, 2017 | Joe Kaiser

Posted on 08/04/2017 5:25:44 PM PDT by re_tail20

Gov. Bruce Rauner today signed into law a bill declaring Aug. 4 “Barack Obama Day,” effective in 2018.

Senate Bill 55 passed through both chambers of the General Assembly without a single dissenting vote. The bill would only make Aug. 4 an honorary holiday and not a legal holiday, unlike an earlier proposal.

The first attempt to create Obama Day in the state failed in March by six votes in the House. That plan, which would have made the day a legal holiday, was estimated to cost Illinois taxpayers nearly $20 million in lost productivity and state employee personnel costs given that state employees would have had the day off. Under that bill, had Obama Day fallen on a Sunday, state workers would’ve been given the following Monday off, as well.

Aug. 4, 2018, will mark the first Barack Obama Day in Illinois.

(Excerpt) Read more at illinoispolicy.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: obama; omen; rauner; raunerobama; theomen; usurper; x44
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To: Aut Pax Aut Bellum

Disagree, but I will suggest April 1, April Fool’s Day.

Really want to tick off BO’B and his minons? Make the big day December 25. That’s one date he would never agree to celebrate. Christians may not like the implication too much, but the idea of his sharing his day, second billing, on the same day Jesus Christ was born would be mighty fine justice in the strange world in which we live today.

Blessings,


41 posted on 08/04/2017 6:08:20 PM PDT by V K Lee (DJT: "Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. ")
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To: re_tail20

Or “Magic Mulatto Day” in the hood.


42 posted on 08/04/2017 6:08:24 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: re_tail20

I bet it rains.


43 posted on 08/04/2017 6:09:03 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: re_tail20

Jenkem for everyone!


44 posted on 08/04/2017 6:10:23 PM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Absolutely true. You have proffered the most important constitutional reasons to oppose the presidency of Obama, and the candidacies of Cruz, Jindahl, Haley, Harris, and Rubio.

Unfortunately, too many wish to deny that which is in plain view, like the Emperor’s butt nekkidness!!


45 posted on 08/04/2017 6:15:05 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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To: re_tail20

Great, honor someone that thinks the nation is “fundamentally flawed” and needs to be “fundamentally transformed”.

Used to call people like that enemies.


46 posted on 08/04/2017 6:15:13 PM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: easternsky; null and void

Man comes out of nowhere, no real accomplishments, faulty paper trail, highly-questionable motives, political record, civilization-destroying, anti-God agendas and NWO agendas. But then, I’m a proud member of Nully’s team.

As one pastor said, he’s paving the way for THE Antichrist.

At a minimum.

When I see this sort of psychotic worship, establishing a “day” to honor this fraud, it makes me even more frightened for this country.

These people are beyond delusional. I say, it’s spirit of antichrist (small ‘a’) and reprobate minds.

There simply is NO rationale reasoning behind any of it.

He spent nearly $9 trillion dollars and created a few $10-an-hour jobs. Oh yeah, that’s amazing. Not.


47 posted on 08/04/2017 6:17:10 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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To: Aut Pax Aut Bellum

Or perhaps April 1.

Actually, that day should be set aside as ‘Those Who Elected Barrack Obama Day’.


48 posted on 08/04/2017 6:18:25 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: dainbramaged
[Jenkem for everyone!]

How's about Thorazine for them Obama-lovin' fools?
49 posted on 08/04/2017 6:19:18 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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To: re_tail20

Why did the governor bother to do this?

Wherever Obama was born, it wasn’t Illinois.

He doesn’t live in Illinois now.

Does Illinois think giving Obama his own holiday will make him move back? Maybe if they give him presents with it . . .


50 posted on 08/04/2017 6:20:55 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: re_tail20

a public holiday for the Illegal Immigrant in Chief?

what a great idea!
this will certainly end the Illinois murder crime wave and balance the state’s budget

isn’t it wonderful how effectively our elected officials work for us?


51 posted on 08/04/2017 6:22:04 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

>>>A holiday for the Kenyanesian Usurper, signed by a Republican<<<

It was a unanimous Vote in the Legislature.

If he didn’t sign it there would be hell to pay and it wouldn’t have made a difference anyway, it would have gone through over his Veto.

Being labeled a Bigot would have been the least of his problems.

You have to know when to hold them and when to fold them.


52 posted on 08/04/2017 6:24:31 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: Berosus

[Why did the governor bother to do this?]

Might I suggest he’s a political whore trolling for Democratic support?

At least that would be the most logical explanation.


53 posted on 08/04/2017 6:25:39 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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To: Kickass Conservative

[It was a unanimous Vote in the Legislature.]

Ah, well, that figures.

SMH


54 posted on 08/04/2017 6:26:48 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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To: re_tail20

What a bunch of stupid egotistical commie jerks!!!


55 posted on 08/04/2017 6:40:02 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Progress- the opposite of congress)
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To: re_tail20

Hopefully Zero will be indicted before the first DO Day is celebrated.


56 posted on 08/04/2017 6:45:54 PM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: re_tail20
Let us commemorate this momentous day in song & dance ...
57 posted on 08/04/2017 6:55:26 PM PDT by mikrofon (Weekend BUMP)
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To: re_tail20

As long as it doesn’t spread to the rest of the country.


58 posted on 08/04/2017 7:12:04 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

and EVERY REPUBLICAN IN BOTH HOUSES VOTED FOR IT.


59 posted on 08/04/2017 7:14:50 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: re_tail20

A “volunteer” holiday won’t last long.


60 posted on 08/04/2017 7:16:29 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
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