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struggle4progress

(118,236 posts)
Thu Jun 23, 2016, 12:01 PM Jun 2016

Tim Tebow, others cut from replacement statue list (FL)

JIM ROSICA
5 hours ago

... former Florida Gator quarterback Tim Tebow will not be immortalized ... in the U.S. Capitol.

Nor will .. adult film star and Florida native Riley Reid ...

They were among nominees proposed .. to replace a statue of a Confederate Army general .. in the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall ...

Third place was claimed by GOP U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, also not dead. He received 27 votes, or 28 if you count a debatable entry for “Little Marco’s tiny … ,” followed by the word for a certain male body part ...


http://floridapolitics.com/archives/214382-ineligible-list-new-statue

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Tim Tebow, others cut from replacement statue list (FL) (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2016 OP
Unless it is a statue to honor overhyped, self-important mediocrities, Aristus Jun 2016 #1
He didn't actually qualify under the dead-for-a-decade rule struggle4progress Jun 2016 #2
Neither did his career. Aristus Jun 2016 #3

Aristus

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1. Unless it is a statue to honor overhyped, self-important mediocrities,
Thu Jun 23, 2016, 01:04 PM
Jun 2016

his removal from the list is entirely justified.

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