First there was a school named after Obama, now comes word that a rural county in Alabama has approved the second Monday in November as "The Barack Obama Day".From the AP...
In central Alabama's Perry County, government workers already get a day off for President's Day, Martin Luther King Day, and Christmas. In 2009, they'll get one more: "Barack Obama Day."
Commissioners passed a measure that would close county offices for the new annual holiday and its roughly 40 workers will get a paid day off. Sponsoring commissioner Albert Turner Jr. said the holiday is meant to highlight the Democratic president-elect's victory as a way to give people faith that difficult goals can be achieved.
Perry County has 12,000 residents, most of them black. Voters there backed Obama by over 70 percent in a state that gave 60 percent of the overall vote to Republican John McCain based largely on strong support from white voters.
The Perry County Commission's three black members and one of its two white members voted for the Obama holiday.
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