13 of 15 Statues Democrats Want Removed From the U.S. Capitol for Racist Ties Were Democrats

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Penny Starr 23 Jul 2020

House Democrats have passed legislation to remove 15 statues because of their connection to the Confederacy, slavery, or white supremacy, 13 of whom were Democrats.

“It’s time to sweep away the last vestiges of Jim Crow and the dehumanizing of individuals because of the color of their skin that intruded for too long on the sacred spaces of our democracy,” Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Majority Leader, said in a Roll Call report on the legislation.

“The American people know, these names have to go. These names are white supremacists that said terrible things about our country,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said in a Just the News report.

The bill only names four of the offending statues — Roger B. Taney, the fifth chief justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, a Democrat, who authored the Dred Scott decision; John Caldwell Calhoun, a Democrat who served as vice president and defender of slavery; James Paul Clarke, a Democrat, who was loyal to his Confederate state Arkansas, which he served as governor and represented in Congress; and Charles Brantley Aycock, a Democrat who was prominent in the Democratic Party’s “white supremacy” Solid South campaigns.

Of the other 11 statues reportedly facing removal, nine were Democrats:

    Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America and former Democrat U.S. senator from Mississippi
    James Zachariah George, former Democrat U.S. senator from Mississippi and member of the Mississippi Secession Convention
    Wade Hampton, lieutenant general of the Confederacy and former Democrat governor of South Carolina
    John E. Kenna, member of the Confederate States Army, former Democrat congressman and U.S. senator from West Virginia
    Uriah Milton Rose, chairman of the Resolutions Committee of the Arkansas Democratic Party
    Edmund Kirby Smith, general for the Confederate States Army who has no recorded political party affiliation
    Alexander Hamilton Stephens, vice president of the Confederate States who served as a Democrat congressman from Georgia and governor of Georgia
    Zebulon Baird Vance, member of the Confederate Army and former Democrat governor of North Carolina
    Joseph Wheeler, commander in the Confederate Army and former Democratic congressman from Alabama
    Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate States Army, no party affiliation
    Edward Douglass White, member of Confederate Army, former Louisiana Democratic senator and associate justice of the Supreme Court

Roll Call also reported that the bust of John C. Breckinridge, a Kentucky senator and vice president in the Buchanan administration, who was expelled in 1861 for joining the Confederacy, would also be removed.

The bill calls for $5 million to be appropriated for the removal.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/23/13-of-15-statues-democrats-want-removed-from-the-u-s-capitol-for-racist-ties-were-democrats/

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The List: 72 Republicans Vote with Democrats to Remove Civil War-Era Memorabilia from U.S. Capitol

John Binder23 Jul 2020274
4:49

A total of 72 House Republicans voted with Democrats to remove certain Civil War-era memorabilia from public view in the United States Capitol.

The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), mandates that a bust of former Supreme Court Justice Roger Brooke Taney sitting in the U.S. Capitol be replaced with a bust of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Additionally, the Democrat plan mandates the removal from public view of U.S. Capitol statues depicting Charles Brantley Aycock, John Caldwell Calhoun, and James Paul Clarke. Each of the statues would eventually be returned to their respective states.

Likewise, any memorabilia depicting members of the Confederate States of America would be removed from public view in the U.S. Capitol.

All 232 House Democrats voted for the legislation, along with these 72 House Republicans:

    Mark Amodei (R-NV)
    Don Bacon (R-NE)
    Troy Balderson (R-OH)
    Gus Bilirakis (R-FL)
    Michael Bost (R-IL)
    Susan Brooks (R-IN)
    Vern Buchanan (R-FL)
    Michael Burgess (R-TX)
    Ken Calvert (R-CA)
    Steve Chabot (R-OH)
    Dan Crenshaw (R-TX)
    Warren Davidson (R-OH)
    Rodney Davis (R-IL)
    Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL)
    Tom Emmer (R-MN)
    Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
    Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE)
    Virginia Foxx (R-NC)
    Mike Gallagher (R-WI)
    Mike Garcia (R-CA)
    Greg Gianforte (R-MT)
    Bob Gibbs (R-OH)
    Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH)
    Brett Guthrie (R-KY)
    Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA)
    French Hill (R-AR)
    Trey Hollingsworth (R-IN)
    Bill Huizenga (R-MI)
    Will Hurd (R-TX)
    Chris Jacobs (R-NY)
    Bill Johnson (R-OH)
    Dusty Johnson (R-SD)
    David Joyce (R-OH)
    John Joyce (R-PA)
    John Katko (R-NY)
    Mike Kelly (R-PA)
    Peter King (R-NY)
    Adam Kinzinger (R-IL)
    Bob Latta (R-OH)
    Frank Lucas (R-OK)
    Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)
    Mike McCaul (R-TX)
    Carol Miller (R-WV)
    Paul Mitchell (R-MI)
    John Moolenaar (R-MI)
    Greg Murphy (R-NC)
    Dan Newhouse (R-WA)
    Devin Nunes (R-CA)
    Pete Olson (R-TX)
    Tom Reed (R-NY)
    Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA)
    Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA)
    Steve Scalise (R-LA)
    John Shimkus (R-IL)
    Mike Simpson (R-ID)
    Chris Smith (R-NJ)
    Lloyd Smucker (R-PA)
    Pete Stauber (R-MN)
    Elise Stefanik (R-NY)
    Bryan Stein (R-WI)
    Chris Stewart (R-UT)
    Steve Stivers (R-OH)
    Van Taylor (R-TX)
    Scott Tipton (R-CO)
    Mike Turner (R-OH)
    Fred Upton (R-MI)
    Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ)
    Ann Wagner (R-MO)
    Greg Waldon (R-OR)
    Mark Walker (R-NC)
    Jackie Walorski (R-IN)
    Daniel Webster (R-FL)

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/23/the-list-72-republicans-vote-with-democrats-to-remove-civil-war-era-memorabilia-from-u-s-capitol/