The nonprofit campaign "Women on 20s" allowed voters to choose three of 15 women candidates for the $20 bill, and now it's down to the "Final Four," and you can vote for the ultimate winner. The candidates are Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks and Wilma Mankiller.
"In the past 48 hours since the final round started, we’ve had 60,000 people cast votes already," the group's executive director, Susan Ades Stone. told ABC News today. "Though all these women and many more deserve to be honored, the winner will be a symbol of what we hope are greater things to come."
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Anything to erase the individuals (who happened to be white men) that created this country and its system of democracy in the interests of freedom.
They are promoting four women, racially disproportionate, and of varying contributions to our foundations as a country. All had varying contributions towards who we are today, but none with the indisputable credentials as founding fathers.
Trying to promote an agenda based on gender, is as self-serving as basing it on race.
Absolutely disgraceful that some people have so little appreciation, or connection, with those whose lives were dedicated to fighting for the freedoms we take for granted.
The white men whose likenesses are on our currency, deserve to be there. Some people haeve no problem spending those same bills though.
Anything to erase the individuals (who happened to be white men) that created this country and its system of democracy in the interests of freedom.
They are promoting four women, racially disproportionate, and of varying contributions to our foundations as a country. All had varying contributions towards who we are today, but none with the indisputable credentials as founding fathers.
Trying to promote an agenda based on gender, is as self-serving as basing it on race.
Absolutely disgraceful that some people have so little appreciation, or connection, with those whose lives were dedicated to fighting for the freedoms we take for granted.
The white men whose likenesses are on our currency, deserve to be there.
I am female, and I do not approve of thiis.
This has got to be one of the dumbest things proposed EVER. I am a woman and think this is ridiculous.
I say Hillary because after our economy crashes you will wipe your a$$ with a twenty.
I agree 100%
Zero change OBAMA go back to kenya.
The twenty dollar bill or no paper money needs to be changed.
Laura Bush, Nancy Reagan...
Chewie goes on the new Three!
Put them all on a THREE dollar bill, right where they belong.
What for? Nothing better to do?
I am a woman and I do not support this AT ALL. Trying to erase part of our history to emphasize another part of it is wrong. This is not a zero sum game.
Zero history change .
The most commonly used note we have? Nah. put her on the two dollar bill.
Yeah, let's remove the last President of the United States to actually pay off the national debt!?!
Mona Lisa is my choice.
Do not touch the two dollar bill. It is the most revered and shows the signing not just a portrait.
If there were a Founding Mother, I'd say go ahead, but there isn't. Leave the commemoration stuff to postage stamps.
Three stooges call it obama holder sharpscum.
Andrew Jackson is not a founding father. Also Jackson was not always on the 20 bill before Jackson it was Grover Cleveland also not a founding father. Before that lots of others held the honor. So quit your whining. The baby that comes into the world after the bill carries a woman will be just like all of you. They will say the twenty has always had that woman on there and I don't want it to change.
1886: The first woman to appear on U.S. currency, Martha Washington, was featured on the $1 silver certificate. The reverse of the note featured an ornate design that occupied the entire note, excluding the borders.[
Won't use the bill. Use 10s and 5s instead.
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