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Fairfax County board votes to rename Lee-Jackson, Lee highways
FFXnow ^ | September 14, 2022 | Fatimah Waseem

Posted on 09/14/2022 6:43:19 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie

Lee and Lee-Jackson highways may officially no more.

In a 9-1 decision, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted to change names of Lee and Lee-Jackson highways to Route 29 and Route 50 respectively.

“This is a necessary and important change for Fairfax County. We will continue to strive to realize our vision of a more equitable One Fairfax,” wrote Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeff McKay in a statement.

The move comes after a yearlong review by the county’s Confederate Names Task Force, which called on renaming the highways. The task force submitted recommendations in December.

Overall, updates to signage is expected to cost roughly $1.4 million, according to a county memo. An additional $1.5 million is estimated for a financial assistance program that would affect businesses and residential units that may be impacted by the name change.

That financial assistance program will be developed in the fall through a formal proposal.

Supervisor Pat Herrity — the board’s lone Republican — voted against the proposal. Officially changing the names will require the approval of the Commonwealth Transportation Board.

The vote comes at the heels of a June decision to change the Lee District’s magisterial name to the Franconia District.

Evoking Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, the highways were among 150 sites in the county with names whose Confederate origins were confirmed by a 2020 report from the Fairfax County History Commission. Combined, they represent over 20 miles of roadway from Chantilly on the county’s western end to the Falls Church border in the east.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bidensfault; confederacy; fairfaxcounty; history; nikkisfault; obamasfault; revisionism
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Look at the name of the author: "Fatimah Waseem".

Heathan pagans invaded our country and immediately set about destroying our heritage—aided and abetted by the Democrats and George Bush "Republicans".

Ancient cultural monuments—before and after the Taliban,


1 posted on 09/14/2022 6:43:19 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Those racist bass turds better rename Shiela Jackson-Lee too.


2 posted on 09/14/2022 6:45:21 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I always thought a Merry Garland was a Christmas tree decoration.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

We used to celebrate Lee-Jackson Memorial Day/Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia. Not no more.


3 posted on 09/14/2022 6:45:58 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Congresswoman Jackson Lee should be stripped of her name. Racist old hag!


4 posted on 09/14/2022 6:46:16 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Rename them Martin Luther King Blvd and see what happens!
5 posted on 09/14/2022 6:46:24 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The forces of decomposition never rest.


6 posted on 09/14/2022 6:46:44 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

GMTA lol


7 posted on 09/14/2022 6:48:13 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I drove through there’s few months ago and wondered when they’d make this moron move


8 posted on 09/14/2022 6:48:35 PM PDT by cyclotic (Follow 1776Restorationmovement.com fighting for our Constitution. @1776RM on Truth)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

3 million dollars

pissing away my tax dollars on nonsense


9 posted on 09/14/2022 6:50:03 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: joshua c

It also costs to change deeds & other records-—vote registration-—school registration-—Business addresses, etc.


10 posted on 09/14/2022 6:51:34 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

They’ll change it to Tranny Turnpike


11 posted on 09/14/2022 6:54:57 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Nine to one.

Sodom and Gomorrah both could have been saved with just 10 righteous men.

It won’t be long now.


12 posted on 09/14/2022 7:00:59 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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Yup, they need to rename them “Slave-owner Road” and “Ku Klux Klan Highway”.


13 posted on 09/14/2022 7:05:50 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

RENAMED TO: Woke Boulevard and LGBTQ Parkway


14 posted on 09/14/2022 7:07:09 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

They’ll change it to honor her


15 posted on 09/14/2022 7:09:08 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

They can rename everything in the whole damn commonwealth. Won’t change anything. Same people, same mountains, same rivers, same lakes.


16 posted on 09/14/2022 7:09:50 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

democrats are simply evil people.


17 posted on 09/14/2022 7:19:19 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Steely Tom

The RATs are just trying to destroy the evidence of their having been on the wrong side of slavery.

It used to be “The Jefferson/Jackson Dinner”.


18 posted on 09/14/2022 7:24:31 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The Lee Highway runs from Richmond to Chattanooga and then to Memphis....


19 posted on 09/14/2022 7:30:34 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The Communist Purge Continues To Grow Exponentially & Nothing Is Being Done About It!

20 posted on 09/14/2022 8:01:13 PM PDT by SuperLuminal
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