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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: re_tail20

ALL HAIL the GREAT BARACK

61 posted on 08/04/2017 7:33:53 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: re_tail20

April Fools Day


62 posted on 08/04/2017 7:53:40 PM PDT by Rembrandt
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To: re_tail20

The people of IL would probably like to have Obama Day every day of the year!


63 posted on 08/04/2017 7:53:44 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017.)
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To: re_tail20

Is this a day to celebrate dishonesty , criminal behavior and anti-Americanism ???


64 posted on 08/04/2017 8:01:46 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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To: re_tail20

A day to Barf Olot.


65 posted on 08/04/2017 8:07:42 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '18.)
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To: re_tail20

Wait til the unions start questioning why they have to work on Obama day.


66 posted on 08/04/2017 9:00:50 PM PDT by proudpapa (This is not the tagline you are looking for.)
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To: re_tail20

Barf-O-rama!


67 posted on 08/04/2017 10:16:43 PM PDT by lightman (Trump = A glorious amalgamation of Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan!)
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To: lightman
Barf-O-rama!



68 posted on 08/04/2017 10:30:11 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: re_tail20

And he did so much for the state LOL


69 posted on 08/04/2017 10:35:58 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: re_tail20

Yes, it’s the day the new Cadillac comes out!


70 posted on 08/05/2017 12:03:51 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: re_tail20

Might as well call it Kenya Day.


71 posted on 08/05/2017 12:04:16 AM PDT by taxesareforever (Islam is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
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To: Berosus

“Why did the governor bother to do this?”

Because he’s a “closet Wigger!”


72 posted on 08/05/2017 12:07:33 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

yep, you get a picture of an obamma phone, lied to about insurance, spied on while enjoying a barbeque and taxed for the sauce..and a benghazi pic of ambassador stevens


73 posted on 08/05/2017 4:09:11 AM PDT by aces
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To: re_tail20

It’s take a dump day!!


74 posted on 08/05/2017 4:20:10 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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To: re_tail20

Half-breed nagger day?


75 posted on 08/05/2017 6:14:03 AM PDT by W. (What's crackin', bitch? Har!)
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To: re_tail20

Okay, since the precedence has been set, when are the Illinois holidays going to be granted for Ronald Reagan, Ulysses Grant, and Abraham Lincoln, since all three — like Barack Obama — lived in Illinois at some point (in the case of Reagan, that was his birthplace).

...just wonderin’


76 posted on 08/05/2017 6:22:23 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: Kickass Conservative; fieldmarshaldj; Impy
>> 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 <<

It's an "honorary" holiday, so no one will notice it and it won't affect anything (schools and government offices will still be open, etc.) An earlier version passed last year would have made it an "official state holiday", and thankfully that version died.

Still, I still zero excuse for any Republican to vote for this or for the Governor to sign it.

If I were Governor, I would have vetoed it and noted that there are FOUR Presidents from Illinois and its wrong to honor only ONE of them and snub the earlier ones ("especially since Abraham Lincoln is considered our greatest President and he is from Illinois"). There is plenty of precedent for that, since the federal level now honors "Presidents Day" instead of "George Washington's Birthday". I would inform the legislature that if they want to amend the legislation to set aside a day to honor all four Presidents from Illinois (and that the bill would retroactively include any FUTURE President from Illinois), I would be happy to sign it. I would also note Indiana has a similar arrangement to bring attention to the fact they have more Vice Presidents than any other state, and a state museum honoring ALL of them.

Let them cry over that and call me a racist, I don't care. I doubt Illinois citizens would care, either.

And while I'm at it, I would issue an executive order changing the current "official state holiday" from "Casmir Pulaski Day" to "Polish American Heritage Day". Casmir Pulaksi has no ties to Illinois whatsoever and never even set foot in this state. While he was a great revolutionary war figure, he doesn't deserve a state holiday.

77 posted on 08/10/2017 1:50:23 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: BillyBoy
I left off one thing.

After the Dog died (probably from Beef Liver Poisoning), I was in a quandary. Then I noticed the Heating System Grate on the floor next to the TV.

A couple of years later my Parents had the entire HVAC System replaced. The HVAC guy found some Fossilized Beef Liver inside the Duct Work and I was busted when my Mother and Father confronted me with the Evidence.

I should have insisted that my Parents buy us another Dog as soon as the first one died. LOL

78 posted on 08/10/2017 3:45:42 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: Kickass Conservative

Oops, wrong Thread. Me bad, LOL

BTW - Obama SUCKS.


79 posted on 08/10/2017 3:47:36 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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