Posted on 04/20/2019 3:13:19 PM PDT by david1292
Vermont Republican Gov. Phil Scott said he would sign a bill that would abolish Columbus Day and replace it with “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.”
The bill to dump the traditional holiday passed through the state legislature in Montpelier on Wednesday and is now on the governor’s desk waiting for a signature, the Burlington Free Press reported.
“I see no reason that I would not sign it,” Scott told the media, “but we’re reviewing the bill as we speak.”
“I know it’s controversial from many standpoints, from many people, but you know, it’s just a day, and we’ll get through it,” Scott added. “And we’ve been treating it as something different over the last couple of years through resolutions. Without any technical difficulties within the bill, I’ll probably sign it.”
Scott has continued the celebration of so-called “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” since Democrat Gov. Peter Shumlin first issued a proclamation observing the day in 2016.
Vermont will become the third state to eliminate Columbus Day in favor of “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” and will join New Mexico and South Dakota once signed. Maine also has a similar measure sitting on its governor’s desk.
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Instead of creating a different day for “Indigenous Peoples’ Day" they have to replace Columbus day with it.
We are losing this nation.
We just junked Kate Smith and now Columbus. Who will be the next American icon to be ditched?
Who cares?
He should just return state sovereignty back to whatever native tribe was in that area at the time of colonization...
(rolling my eyes)
We recently spent some time in VT.
The state has a large number of problems that are far more serious than Columbus Day...
Might as well - it’s just the loss of a state and he’ll get through it.
Wtf is he a Republican?
Yep, and the right’s kindness/passiveness is making it pretty easy.
Minnesota is way ahead of this clown.
Red Wing Minnesota started the indigenous peoples day. Minneapolis and St. Paul did it.
They even rename Minnesota lakes because the snowflakes are offended. It would be nice if they would at least rename it something you could pronounce.
That question is how we ended up in the current state of affairs.
Oh, good. Piss off the Italian-Americans. More votes for us!
Thomas Jefferson will be next.
He can’t - it would be a bloodbath. The Abenakis are all drunks and couldn’t survive the first attack.
< /S >
Lake Mogadishu.
Grown men and women, born and reared in the greatest land EVER doing everything they can to destroy it.
How'd it happen ?
I don't know, but nothing less than a Sodom and Gomorah type cleansing from God is about the only thing I can see as a remedy.
Even armed revolution would not cleanse the cancerous teachers of this tragedy.
President Trump is the last great man we will ever see, I'm afraid.
Not all of it...just parts of it.
The “Indigenous People” of the Americas practiced slavery. How do they justify naming a holiday after slaveholders?
Not “are losing”...”have lost” is more accurate...
Maybe Vermont Republican Gov. Phil Scott is eyeing a Utah Senate seat in 2020. Yup, we are losing this nation!
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