said in a social media post<\/a> this week that she and her husband have been part of the efforts for the past decade to have the national motto displayed in local government chambers. Two-thirds of the cities in Fresno County have already displayed it in their chambers, according to Pearce.<\/p>\n\u201cDisplaying the national motto is not only a patriotic exercise, but a humble admission that those in elected office are not the ultimate source of wisdom,\u201d Pearce wrote on Facebook. \u201cOur nation displays IGWT in a variety of high-profile places, including on our money and in the chamber of the House of Representatives, where it can be seen above the head of each President as he delivers the State of the Union Address.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pearce said she made the suggestion to cover the cost with private donations in lieu of city tax dollars.<\/p>\n
Councilmember Drew Bessinger, who supports the displaying the national motto, also proposed to display some of the country\u2019s founding documents in the chamber.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur council chambers are in need of a makeover, it\u2019s been pretty much the same, probably since 1976 when they built it,\u201d Bessinger said. \u201cI just think if we\u2019re going to do that, then we should probably do a comprehensive makeover.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those are importantversatile documents that established the country\u2019s political system and the rights of all individuals, Bessinger said.<\/p>\n
Bessinger, who was elected in 2017, said conversations about displaying the national motto in the Clovis council chamber had been suggested before, but never materialized.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Nathan Magsig proposed it several years back, and it got no traction. I think it might have been after the City of Fresno had some negative [feedback] . There\u2019s always going to be negativity one way or another, and I\u2019m not saying negativity is wrong,\u201d Bessinger said. \u201cI can\u2019t speak to what the council was thinking back then. I know it had been previously floated, I\u2019m not positive what happened with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clovis leaders are considering displaying the national motto \u201cIn God We Trust\u201d in the City Council chamber. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[26,112,114,113,23,25,3454,21696],"class_list":{"0":"post-29195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-fresno","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-news","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-newsbreak","14":"tag-the-fresno-bee","15":"tag-will-clovis-become-next-fresno-area-city-to-display-in-god-we-trust-in-public"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}