GOPer Attempting To Block Changes To Currency, Would Halt Tubman Addition

[MADem]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Republican congressman is trying to block the Treasury from redesigning U.S. currency, a move that could prevent the government from replacing Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman.

Rep. Steve King of Iowa has offered an amendment to a spending bill barring the use of funds to redesign any Federal Reserve note or coin. It wasn't immediately clear why King opposed the redesign, and his office did not immediately respond to messages.

Under plans announced in April by Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, Tubman would replace Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill. The abolitionist and former slave who was a leader of the Underground Railroad will become the first African-American featured on U.S. paper currency and the first woman on paper currency in a century.

Andrew Jackson, the nation's seventh president, will be moved to the back of the $20 bill, which will also retain an image of the White House on the back.

Alexander Hamilton's portrait will remain on the front of the $10 bill. The back, which now features the Treasury building in Washington, will be redesigned to commemorate a 1913 suffragette march and feature famous suffragette leaders including Susan B. Anthony....

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gop-lawmaker-tubman-attempts-block

That guy is always doing racist stuff!

[shenmue]

1. Fuck him

[MADem]

4. I second that emotion! nt

[tenderfoot]

2. Ever notice that Republicans/Conservatives take the most disgusting stance on everything.

Especially Steve King.

[MADem]

5. Yep--this is just angry, bloviating, racist bitterness. nt

[gopiscrap]

3. Racist, misygonist pig

[MADem]

6. Exactly! nt

[liberal N proud]

7. King!

What an ass!

[MADem]

9. He's always got his fingers in the shit-obstructionist jerk! nt

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. They would rather Ronnie Reagan,

[Vogon_Glory]

10. I wouldn't be surprised if Steve King thinks that

putting Harriet Tubman on the twenty dollar would somehow undermine property rights because she helped bought-and-paid-for slaves escape to freedom.

[MADem]

11. His Democratic challenger needs to ask supporters to donate a "TUBMAN" to her campaign...

http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/a1/democrat-kim-weaver-fights-uphill-battle-to-unseat-steve-king/article_897a95a8-b986-5a4c-81a0-de5d7ed14dab.html

SHELDON, Iowa | Before heading to a series of Iowa Democratic Party meetings earlier this week, Kim Weaver stopped to get gasoline in Sheldon. A man there asked if she was still running for a congressional seat.

Weaver answered affirmatively, and the man shared how he had voted in the June 7 Republican Party primary, where U.S. Rep. Steve King had been unsuccessfully challenged by Rick Bertrand.

She recounted: "This guy said, 'Well, I voted for Bertrand. That didn't work out.' I joked, I said, 'Well, now you can vote against Steve King twice.' And he said, 'I will be.'

"I have Republicans who come up to me all the time who say, 'You have my vote.' I have Republicans who send me emails, saying, 'I am a Republican, but I can't vote for him again.'"

Weaver, of Sheldon, knows a number of Democrats have entered the political ring with optimism about the tough task of defeating King, a seven-term incumbent, in a district where Republican registered voters now dominate by a gap of 62,547 over Democrats......

Definitely an uphill battle...but this issue might help!