Wisconsin legislators want "Holiday tree" to be called a Christmas tree

Earlier today it was Purdue University in Indiana and the "Union tree." Now up in Wisconsin, ironically where many Christmas trees come from, almost fifty legislators want the Christmas tree the state calls a "Holiday tree" to be called a Christmas tree.

From AP:

It's a 35-foot-tall balsam fir decorated with lights and ornaments and stands in the Capitol Rotunda for almost the entire month of December.

So should it be a ``Holiday Tree'' or a ``Christmas Tree?''

Forty-six lawmakers, most of them Republicans, sent Gov. Jim Doyle a letter Wednesday urging him to rename the tree the ``Wisconsin State Christmas Tree,'' saying the tree is one of the great symbols of Christmas and should be named as such.

The state first put a tree up in the rotunda over the holidays in 1916, and officials began referring to it as the ``Holiday Tree'' in 1985, according to the governor's office. The moniker has continued through four different administrations

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Let's hope Governor Doyle does the sensible thing. However, Doyle is a Democrat.

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