Current Events > Ocasio-Cortez says to replace Columbus Day with a holiday for election day

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https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wants-replace-columbus-day-holiday-election-day-1221904

Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday proposed getting rid of Columbus Day as a holiday and replacing it with a day off for Election Day.

It started when Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Saturday night, how is Columbus Day a holiday but Election Day not?

The Daily Mails U.S. political editor David Martosko quote tweeted Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday and wrote that she hasn't even started the job yet and she's already angling for more vacation days.

The incoming Democratic representative then quote tweeted Martosko and replied: While I would disagree with your complaint that Americans get too much vacation time (we work some of the longest hours of any dev country & have no Fed required paid leave), I am willing to compromise by eliminating Columbus Day to give Election Day off. See? I can be pliant.

Ocasio-Cortezs view that Columbus Day should not be a holiday reflected the opinions of many Americans who do not want to glorify the enslavement and killing of Native Americans at Christopher Columbuss conquest in 1492.

In 1992, Berkeley, California, became the first city in the United States to instate Indigenous Peoples Day in place of Columbus Day, which falls in October. Other U.S. cities have followed suit since.

Ocasio-Cortez has been outspoken even before she won her midterm election race and made history by becoming the youngest woman ever to be elected to Congress, at the age of 29. A democratic socialist, she has introduced other bold ideas including a Medicare for all proposal and advocated for the abolishment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

As Ocasio-Cortez makes more of her ideas heard, conservatives have lodged more attacks against her.

A Washington Examiner reporter last week tweeted a photo of Ocasio-Cortezs backside and commented, That jacket and coat dont look like a girl who struggles. It was just one of various criticism she has faced from conservatives who say she leads a more luxurious life than she claims. Ocasio-Cortez, a former bartender who grew up in the Bronx to working-class parents, said she could not afford an apartment in Washington, D.C.

The idea that Election Day should be a national holiday was proposed by independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, for whom Ocasio-Cortez was an organizer, when he pursued the Democratic primary for the 2016 presidential election.

After a turnout of only about 36 percent in the 2014 elections, according to the University of Floridas United States Elections Project, Sanders co-sponsored a bill to establish Democracy Day to make it easier for Americans to vote.

Election Day should be a national holiday so that everyone has the time and opportunity to vote. While this would not be a cure-all, it would indicate a national commitment to create a more vibrant democracy, Sanders wrote on his website. We should not be satisfied with a 'democracy" in which more than 60 percent of our people don't vote and some 80 percent of young people and low-income Americans fail to vote.

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I'd be down for this. Hell let's just make election day a holiday and not remove columbus day so I can keep my floating holiday.
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there's a Columbus statue near where i live and i wanna knock it over
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I dont mind this idea.
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Definitely down for election day being a national holiday
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How dare she spit on Indigenous People's Day
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Im 100% in favor of this.
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ScazarMeltex posted...

Im 100% in favor of this.

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Finally, a politician with brains and balls to take this idea seriously.
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Sounds reasonable to me.
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That's a reasonable stance
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Election day should be a holiday

I also support this.
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Shes right
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Will kids that are under the age of voting get school off too?
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There is absolutely no way republicans will allow people to get a day off on election day.

No way.

This would mean that too many people in urban areas would be able to vote.
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sounds excellent
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frozenshock posted...

There is absolutely no way republicans will allow people to get a day off on election day.

No way.

This would mean that too many people in urban areas would be able to vote.

Even if election day is a holiday most people aren't getting the day off.

Many businesses remain open on holidays.
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I'll still have to work. I don't get federal holidays off.
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Cortez, another genocidal name that got here before Columbus and cucked Mexico and murdered the natives. The irony.
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Why don't we just make election day a holiday? Is there some sort of hard limit on how many federal holidays we can have?
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Columbus Day is fucking stupid, so I agree with this
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Blue_Target posted...

Will kids that are under the age of voting get school off too?

They usually do anyway
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"Election day" needs to be a week, possibly even eight days from sunday to sunday.

I saw someone complaining that she was "out of touch" because shift workers still have to work on holidays.

And it's like...yeah, they still have to work on Columbus Day also.
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Blue_Target posted...

Will kids that are under the age of voting get school off too?

Most do anyways; schools are frequent polling places.
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KillerKhan420 posted...

Cortez, another genocidal name that got here before Columbus and cucked Mexico and murdered the natives. The irony.

He must have been the greatest sailing and military prodigy in history to cross the Atlantic and start murdering natives when he was 7.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

"Election day" needs to be a week, possibly even eight days from sunday to sunday.

Thats called early voting...
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No, don't take Columbus Day away from me. I'm one of the few that gets it off each year. I'm in favor or making it into another holiday and making election day one too, though.
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Solid Sonic posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

"Election day" needs to be a week, possibly even eight days from sunday to sunday.

Thats called early voting...

Also something GOP state govts have done away with in urban centers. Probably the real need is federal lawmaking on minimum required polling stations per capita in a district.

Any inefficiency resulting from this would be more than offset by the fact that significantly more Americans would be able to vote without waiting in long lines.
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While we're at it, can we move it to Monday?

Holidays in the middle of the week can kiss my ass.
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Tmaster148 posted...

frozenshock posted...

There is absolutely no way republicans will allow people to get a day off on election day.

No way.

This would mean that too many people in urban areas would be able to vote.

Even if election day is a holiday most people aren't getting the day off.

Many businesses remain open on holidays.

I think the argument is that if you make election day a Federal holiday it would put pressure on the States to follow suit. You know which states would immediately match it too and which wouldn't.

Now if you live in a state that didn't I wonder if that's challengable in court.
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Ex-Kefiroth posted...

Solid Sonic posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

"Election day" needs to be a week, possibly even eight days from sunday to sunday.

Thats called early voting...

12 states (including big ones like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New York) have no early voting.

Well, fair, but the fact remains his idea already exists.
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So why are we replacing it? Why not have both holidays?
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Election day would be a very practical holiday, whereas Columbus Day has no reason to be a holiday
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A holiday on election day is... actually not a bad idea tbh. Broken clocks, twice a day, blahblah.

Although here's an even better idea: Don't limit the voting to a single day. Give people a week or two to cast their votes. (Although based on coverage of the midterms, I get the feeling they're already starting to do that in some places?)
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No. This day is sacred for US americans. I reject it.
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Seems smart imo
My waifu wins again
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https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1064213420382277635
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Bio1590 posted...

Tmaster148 posted...

frozenshock posted...

There is absolutely no way republicans will allow people to get a day off on election day.

No way.

This would mean that too many people in urban areas would be able to vote.

Even if election day is a holiday most people aren't getting the day off.

Many businesses remain open on holidays.

I think the argument is that if you make election day a Federal holiday it would put pressure on the States to follow suit. You know which states would immediately match it too and which wouldn't.

Now if you live in a state that didn't I wonder if that's challengable in court.

Don't get me wrong. I'm completely for making election day a holiday. But let's not pretend like making it a holiday will make everyone have a day off to vote.
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So anyone with a government job gets a day off to vote woke the working shmuck gets reminded once again that national holidays aren't guaranteed days off.
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Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1064213420382277635

God I love this chick
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Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1064213420382277635

The responses to this are all over the map (and literally too).
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Antifar posted...

https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1064213420382277635

lmao at that guy's tweet "angling for more vacation days"

some americans get fired if they miss a single day of work due to illness you fuck
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You should have said she was responding to some guy who made fun of her for wanting more vacation days.

We need more vacation days. Have more holidays in the summer besides 4th of July and make up a few more.
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