Diablo 2 Reagan 0

[optid]

Arthur Mijares is a man with a mission. For much of the past decade he has been wanting to change the name of California's Mount Diablo. in Spanish, diablo means devil.
Mijares is part of a group of fundamentalist Christians who don't like having geographic locations named after demonic beings. So the Californian has proposed having the mountain re-named Mount Ronald Reagan after the 40th US president.

So far the board of supervisors of Contra Costa County and a California advisory commission have rejected the proposal. Undeterred, Mijares is petitioning the US Geological Survey to change the name.
Yes, there is a board there which exclusively names and renames locations.
http://geonames.usgs.gov/

This appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle last month.

Mount Diablo remains Mount Diablo. Period.

In his fight to cleanse Mount Diablo of its evil name, Oakley resident Arthur Mijares went before the Contra Costa County board of supervisors Tuesday to explain why the peak should be named after former president Ronald Reagan.

He expressed his disgust over the "diablo," which means "devil" in Spanish. "To me and millions of other followers of the Christian faith, the devil is derogatory, pejorative, offensive, obscene, blasphemous and profane," said Mijares, who was recently appointed to the county's Alcohol & Other Drugs Advisory Board this month.

A Concord man also suggested another moniker for Mt. Diablo -- Mount John Muir -- at which point, we imagine, the supervisors groaned, rolled their eyes and slapped their foreheads. They ultimately rejected both requests, voting to send a letter of opposition to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

Supervisor Mary Piepho told the Contra Costa Times that the board can now turn its attention to more pressing issues. "We have our hands full with deep budget cuts and losing local services. Let's put an end to this discussion and get on to more important items."

[FlyingKiwi]

Mount Diablo sounds a lot better than Mount Ronald Reagan.

[The Seeker]

i agree

[optid]

Mount Diablo sounds a lot better than Mount Ronald Reagan.

Reagan was actually born in Illinois but moved west where he became famous. Almost the opposite of Barack Obama who moved to Illinois.

Reagan was born in Tampico (in Whiteside County) and grew up in Dixon (in Lee County). I-88 passes near those towns. So they named it after him.
It is called the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway. Not a mountain, but I'm sure motorists think of him as they pay their tolls.