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TexasTowelie

(116,749 posts)
Mon Mar 4, 2019, 06:24 AM Mar 2019

Lawmaker wants to redesign Maine's state flag

AUGUSTA — Rep. Janice Cooper thinks it’s time to freshen up Maine’s state flag, and to do so she is leaning on the one of the banner’s first incarnations.

Cooper, a Yarmouth Democrat, is sponsoring a bill that would see the state lower its current flag, which features the state seal on a field of blue, and raise a new version that depicts a lone pine tree and a blue star on a field of light yellow. The design was adopted as the state flag in 1901 but in 1909 it was retired in favor of the current flag.

The state seal on the current flag includes a pine tree with a bull moose resting beneath it and a star, representing the North Star, above it with the state’s Latin motto, “Dirigo,” in gold letters on a red sash. The pine tree is flanked by a fisherman and farmer, representing the state’s connection to agriculture and the sea. The word “Maine,” in white letters on a light blue sash, stretches out below the seal.

A public hearing on Cooper’s proposal will be held Monday before the Legislature’s State and Local Government Committee. Maine is not alone in considering a flag redesign, as other states, including Utah, are also contemplating retiring theirs. Critics dismiss flags that are built around a state’s seal as “S.O.B.s” – for seals on a bedsheet. They prefer designs that are sleeker, simpler and memorable.

Read more: https://www.sunjournal.com/2019/03/04/lawmaker-wants-to-redesign-maines-state-flag/

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Lawmaker wants to redesign Maine's state flag (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2019 OP
the yellow is kinda dingy. go full primary with it rampartc Mar 2019 #1
Really? peacefreak2.0 Mar 2019 #2
Why not? They have the prettiest license plates janterry Mar 2019 #3
Lets keep the one we have Soxfan58 Mar 2019 #4
Literally every billable dollar Tien1985 Mar 2019 #5
I like the coat of arm... better than the flag 4139 Mar 2019 #6

rampartc

(5,835 posts)
1. the yellow is kinda dingy. go full primary with it
Mon Mar 4, 2019, 06:50 AM
Mar 2019

i think the flags (including my own state) with state seals are too "busy"

Tien1985

(920 posts)
5. Literally every billable dollar
Mon Mar 4, 2019, 08:21 AM
Mar 2019

That our politicians spend on this should have to be reimbursed from their own pocket.

I’d get it if they were trying to move away from a racist flag or something, but we have so many other things going on. I just can’t see how this is necessary.

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