Holiday tree my butt... Would anyone call a Menorah a holiday candle?
(CNN) - ”Christmas” is returning to Rhode Island’s capitol building.
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee put out a statement Monday
announcing that the tree at the State House will be called a “Christmas
tree,” ending a two-year long controversy.
In 2011, in his first year as governor, Chafee’s calling of a
“holiday tree” sparked protests, including a competing Christmas tree
lighting ceremony. A state lawmaker even called the governor a “Grinch.”
Chafee, a Republican turned independent turned Democrat, said in a
statement that “In 2011, my first year celebrating December in the State
House I gave a simple six word instruction to the planners of the
annual tree lighting: ‘Do what they did last year.’”
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