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Pelosi calls for removal of Confederate statues in Capitol complex
« on: June 10, 2020, 10:56:21 pm »
Pelosi calls for removal of Confederate statues in Capitol complex
By Juliegrace Brufke - 06/10/20 06:31 PM EDT

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is calling for the removal of Confederate statues from Capitol’s campus, arguing the figures should not be glorified in the halls of Congress.

Pelosi made the request in a letter Wednesday to Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), the chairman and vice chairwoman of the Joint Committee on the Library, the panel that oversees the placement of statues.

“As I have said before, the halls of Congress are the very heart of our democracy. The statues in the Capitol should embody our highest ideals as Americans, expressing who we are and who we aspire to be as a nation,” she wrote.


Pelosi previously called for removal of the statues in 2017, when she was House minority leader.

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Re: Pelosi calls for removal of Confederate statues in Capitol complex
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2020, 11:08:29 pm »
Is she aware that those Confederate figures were all Democrats?
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Re: Pelosi calls for removal of Confederate statues in Capitol complex
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2020, 11:26:20 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on June 10, 2020, 11:08:29 pm
Is she aware that those Confederate figures were all Democrats?
Doesn't matter. It's likely her herd has no ties to history here that far back, anyway.
It's a pity so many more well done statues will be destroyed just because they don't name some yankee on the plinth.
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