AP NewsBreak: Macy’s moves Joan Jett off SD float

By Avatar of gandalf November 15, 2013
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File - In this Nov. 22, 2012 file photo Don McLean rides South Dakota's float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. A Macy's parade spokesman said Friday, Nov. 15, that Joan Jett and her band the Blackhearts, who were to be on the float in the 2013 parade, will be moved to another float after ranchers complained about having a vegetarian and animal rights advocate representing their state. A new performer to be announced later will be on the South Dakota float. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Macy's is moving rocker Joan Jett and her band off the South Dakota tourism float in its Thanksgiving Day parade after ranchers complained about having a vegetarian and animal rights advocate representing their state.


November 15, 2013 10:51 pm

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