Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Virginia General Assembly kills legislation to let cities remove Confederate statues

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Recycled talking points from Republican Ed Gillespie's gubernatorial campaign weren't enough to save legislation to make it easier for Virginia localities to decide the fate of their Confederate statues.
Early Wednesday morning, a House of Delegates subcommittee overwhelmingly voted down a series of bills to facilitate the removal or relocation of Confederate monuments.

Because another panel already voted down a similar bill in the Senate, Wednesday's vote means that Virginia, a state steeped in Civil War history that has more Confederate monuments than anywhere else in the country, won't be getting rid of its memorials to the Lost Cause any time soon.

2 comments:

  1. Hooray ! A ray of sunlight !The whole thing was a liberal culture cleansing effort that was met with lots of opposition and common sense.

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