{"id":964785,"date":"2021-11-03T22:13:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T02:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=964785"},"modified":"2021-11-03T22:13:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T02:13:49","slug":"pennsylvania-city-votes-against-removing-english-as-official-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-city-votes-against-removing-english-as-official-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania City Votes Against Removing English as Official Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpennsylvania-city-votes-against-removing-english-as-official-language%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=964785&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/i-voted-sticker-pandemic-masks-election-stock-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The city of Allentown, Pennsylvania, voted not to remove English as its official language in a referendum ballot question on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cShall paragraph B of Section 101 of the City of Allentown Home Rule Charter be removed from the Charter?\u201d the ballot question <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/news\/elections\/mc-nws-allentown-official-language-referendum-english-election-2021-20211103-mjdoi5bdrndsfedg3rye5if3b4-story.html\">read<\/a>, according to the <em>Morning Call<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Paragraph B of Section 101 of the Allentown Home Rule Charter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allentownpa.gov\/Portals\/0\/files\/Legislative\/HomeRuleCharter_March2020.pdf?ver=2020-02-25-161608-450\">states<\/a>, <\/span><span>\u201cEnglish shall be the official language of the City of Allentown and the language in which City business shall be conducted, unless otherwise required by applicable state and\/or federal law or regulation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Morning Call<\/em> reports that 6,695 voted against removing English as the city\u2019s official language, while over 3,000 voted in favor of the removal.<\/p>\n<p>Some took issue with the question itself, suggesting that the wording of the question was unclear, according to the outlet. The <em>Morning Call<\/em> reports that mail-in voters did not receive plain English statements regarding the referendum and multiple city council members claimed that some polling stations did not have plain English statements pertaining to the referendum.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Had the referendum passed, the change would mainly be symbolic as the charter provision in no way prevents Allentown from communicating with non-English speakers, according to the <em>Morning Call<\/em>. Additionally, the provision does not hinder the city from \u201cmaking city documents available in languages other than English,\u201d according to the <em>Morning Call<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The vote for the referendum came after the city council approved the ballot question in April by a vote of six to one, the outlet reports.<\/p>\n<p>A city council ordinance, which late Councilmember Emma Tropiano headed, established English as Allentown\u2019s official language in 1995, according to the Morning Call.<\/p>\n<p>Tropiano reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/news\/mc-xpm-2002-01-10-3399688-story.html\">garnered<\/a> the support of 23 members of Congress for her belief that English should be the official language of the United States, according to a 2002 article from the <em>Morning Call<\/em>. Her legacy is surrounded by controversy as she stated in 1988 that Hispanics were responsible for 99 percent of an increase in crime in the city, the outlet reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess I\u2019ll go to the grave with the 99 percent [remark],\u201d Tropiano said in 1989, per the <em>Morning Call<\/em>. \u201cThat will be on my tombstone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Allentown, Pennsylvania, voted not to remove English as its official language in a referendum ballot question on Tuesday. \u201cShall paragraph B of Section 101 of the City &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}