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**TANEYTOWN, Md. – **English is now the official language of a central Maryland town of 5,000, after the Taneytown City Council approved a nonbinding resolution, deciding against a charter that had drawn complaints from civil rights groups and residents.
"This issue is not, I repeat not, about giving up your native
tongue," said Councilman Paul Chamberlain, Jr., the resolution’s sponsor, after Tuesday’s vote. “All we’re asking is if you become a U.S. citizen, please speak English. There are two reasons: one, you can have greater opportunities to realize the American Dream, and two, so that we can communicate.”
Chamberlain, who made the English-only issue a key part of his failed bid for the Republican nomination for a state Senate seat, denied the issue was an election-year ploy.
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"This issue is not, I repeat not, about giving up your native
tongue," said Councilman Paul Chamberlain, Jr., the resolution’s sponsor, after Tuesday’s vote. “All we’re asking is if you become a U.S. citizen, please speak English. There are two reasons: one, you can have greater opportunities to realize the American Dream, and two, so that we can communicate.”
Chamberlain, who made the English-only issue a key part of his failed bid for the Republican nomination for a state Senate seat, denied the issue was an election-year ploy.
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