Governor Terry McAuliffe today vetoed a bill aimed at strengthening the states’ prohibition on the removal of war memorials. He also called for a special task force to study ways to balance preservation and concerns about the public displays of symbols of the Confederate South.
The bill easily passed in the House of Delegates, but was narrowly approved in the state Senate, where it was opposed by Democrats. The legislation was prompted by a Circuit Court ruling that interpreted the state’s law prohibiting the removal of the memorials to only apply to those erected after 1998—the year the law was expanded to cover all war memorials, not only those related to “the War between the States.”
Last week, the Loudoun County Democratic Committee and the Loudoun Chapter of the NAACP joined calls urging the governor to veto the bill.
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The rotten Carpet Bagging McAuliffe stikes again...Go back to NJ and rot....
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