
Obama Cigarette Portrait To Be Replaced With Official Portrait At Nebraska's Adams County Courthouse
HASTINGS, Neb. -- The Adams County Courthouse meeting room will soon be getting an official portrait of President Barack Obama nearly 18 months after Obama was elected.
The portrait will hang in a spot that had held a framed black-and-white image depicting the President with a cigarette hanging from his mouth. That photo -- a notorious fake -- drew a complaint from a county official who found it disrespectful.
County Supervisor Eldon Orthmann, a Republican, told the Hastings Tribune that he had the smoking photo matted and framed at his own expense. Orthmann said he had hung it next to an official photo of Gov. Dave Heineman as a joke.
County Supervisor Lee Saathoff, the board's lone Democrat, said Monday that U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson's office is sending the county an official presidential portrait.
The portrait will hang in a spot that had held a framed black-and-white image depicting the President with a cigarette hanging from his mouth. That photo -- a notorious fake -- drew a complaint from a county official who found it disrespectful.
County Supervisor Eldon Orthmann, a Republican, told the Hastings Tribune that he had the smoking photo matted and framed at his own expense. Orthmann said he had hung it next to an official photo of Gov. Dave Heineman as a joke.
County Supervisor Lee Saathoff, the board's lone Democrat, said Monday that U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson's office is sending the county an official presidential portrait.
3 comments:
That is not cool. I agree with you on this one, Splash.
That is asinine. Yet I live in Texas. You know what is strange?
I like in Fort Worth TX and see more Obama stickers on cars then any other politician.
Maybe democrats are more vocal...NOT!
I think a lot of people secretly have voted for Obama. He did not loose by much considering this is Texas.
Oh well...red states are quickly becoming purple states.
Nice to see sanity spreading to other parts of Texas besides just Austin!
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