Nebraska courthouse finally replace Obama cigarette photo with official portrait
The portrait will hang in a spot that had held a framed black-and-white photo showing the president with a cigarette hanging from his mouth...
HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) – The Adams County Courthouse meeting room will soon be getting an official portrait of President Barack Obama nearly 18 months after Obama was elected.
The portrait will hang in a spot that had held a framed black-and-white photo showing the president with a cigarette hanging from his mouth. That photo drew a complaint from a county official who found it disrespectful.
County Supervisor Eldon Orthmann, a Republican, told the Hastings Tribune that he had the smoking photo matted and framed at his own expense. Orthmann said he had hung it next to an official photo of Gov. Dave Heineman as a joke.
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