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Democrats drop Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson names from annual fundraising dinner

Democrats drop Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson names from annual fundraising dinner
N&V Staff
July 24, 2015
Portrait of Thomas Jefferson - CIRCA 1901 (artist unidentified). (Photo by LIFE Picture Collection / Getty Images)

Portrait of Thomas Jefferson – CIRCA 1901 (artist unidentified). (Photo by LIFE Picture Collection / Getty Images)

(Neil Vigdor, Connecticut Post) – Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson are history in Connecticut.

Under pressure from the NAACP, the state Democratic Party will scrub the names of the two presidents from its annual fundraising dinner because of their ties to slavery.

Party leaders voted unanimously Wednesday night in Hartford to rename the Jefferson Jackson Bailey dinner in the aftermath of last month’s fatal shooting of nine worshipers at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C.

The decision is believed to be unprecedented and could prompt Democrats in other states with similarly named events to follow suit.

“I see it as the right thing to do,” Nick Balletto, the party’s first-year chairman, told Hearst Connecticut Media on Wednesday night.

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