Comments on: City Commission Votes to Add Emancipation Day to City Holidays

By: doucheblasio

doucheblasio — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 16:06:44 +0000

Good news for the City Employees. Bad news for the Tax Payers. I’m confused, I thought liberals hated history?

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 22:15:29 +0000

Hopefully it doesn’t become yet another virtue signaling day and people actually use it to teach kids something about history.

By: Dennis Barton

Dennis Barton — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 13:47:09 +0000

Slavery ended on December 6,1865. That is the date the 13th amendment was ratified after which “neither slavery or involuntary servitude will be permitted in the United States”. May 20th was merely the date that Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863 and a precursor of the 13th amendment, was read here in Tallahassee.. If you are going to celebrate the end of slavery at least celebrate it on the right day otherwise history could be further distorted with the COT ending up celebrating Juneteenth which even isn’t a date.

By: Snidely Whiplash

Snidely Whiplash — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 02:02:04 +0000

It’s great to know our City Commissioners had the good sense to enact this Holiday to honor their minority employees that had the intelligence and common sense to vote for Trump.
Thank you beloved City employees!!!

By: Jim Thielen

Jim Thielen — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 22:13:58 +0000

Is that $67,000 cost before fringe or included? How many paid Holidays do City and County Employees enjoy at our expense? Again, considering they increased property taxes via inflated housing values.

By: TONY

TONY — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:00:53 +0000

Just do it like they did when they first started the MLK Day. It wasn’t a paid Holiday BUT, you could take it off if you wanted to.