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« on: September 12, 2021, 02:20:13 am »
Glenn Youngkin, GOP Nominee For Governor, Endorses Removing Lee Statue, Says Confederate Monuments Can Go

FRANKIE STOCKES   |   September 11, 2021

Virginia’s GOP nominee for Governor, Glenn Youngkin endorsed the removal of Richmond’s 131-year-old Robert E. Lee Monument, while the GOP nominee for Lt. Governor, Winsome Sears, celebrated the statue’s destruction at the hands of far-left Governor Ralph Northam and the state’s Democrat packed Supreme Court. The reactions of the two candidates put them sharply at odds with Virginia’s grassroots GOP base, as well as with 45th President Donald J. Trump who praised General Lee in a statement blasting the statue’s removal.

A campaign spokesman for Gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin, who has been hounded with serious conservative credibility issues, reportedly told The Washington Post that Youngkin “agrees with the decision” to remove the statue, following a radio appearance in which the candidate suggested Lee’s monument be moved “someplace like a battlefield or a museum.”

Speaking with National File, a Youngkin spokesman reiterated the candidate’s support for removing Confederate monuments, though Youngkin says that local communities, not Richmond, should have the final say in the matter. “Glenn Youngkin believes these decisions should be made by the local community, not dictated from Richmond,” the spokesman said.  .  .  .

https://nationalfile.com/virginia-glenn-youngkin-gop-nominee-for-governor-endorses-removing-lee-statue-says-confederate-monuments-can-go/


Younkin has just conceded the gubernatorial race to Terry McAuliffe.  Normally, the Virginia GOP doesn't reveal its support for the Democrat until late October.  They got an early start this year.
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Re: VIRGINIA: Glenn Youngkin, GOP Nominee For Governor, Endorses Removing Lee Statue, Says Confedera
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2021, 12:51:27 pm »
He’s correct. 
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Re: VIRGINIA: Glenn Youngkin, GOP Nominee For Governor, Endorses Removing Lee Statue, Says Confedera
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2021, 01:14:29 pm »
Well, he just lost the election..... way to go stupid...
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Re: VIRGINIA: Glenn Youngkin, GOP Nominee For Governor, Endorses Removing Lee Statue, Says Confedera
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2021, 01:37:24 pm »
It is beyond sad when a people glories in the destruction of its history.

Not only is this the destruction of an historical monument to the man who left his commission in the Union Army to defend Richmond, the Commonwealth, and the South from invasion by those forces, whose lands were turned into a cemetery by the invaders/conquerors after the war, never to be farmed again, it is the destruction of a work of art that will not be duplicated.

This is only "justified" by the teaching of distortions in History to try to justify the actions of the conquerors in retrospect.

You can't learn anything from history that is twisted.

When we destroy the monuments to our own history like the invading Saracens treated the examples around them, who are the enemy?
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Re: VIRGINIA: Glenn Youngkin, GOP Nominee For Governor, Endorses Removing Lee Statue, Says Confedera
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2021, 09:27:24 pm »
Quote from: EdinVA on September 12, 2021, 01:14:29 pm
Well, he just lost the election.....

Which has been the Virginia GOP plan every election.
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Re: VIRGINIA: Glenn Youngkin, GOP Nominee For Governor, Endorses Removing Lee Statue, Says Confedera
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2021, 09:56:14 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on September 12, 2021, 01:37:24 pm
It is beyond sad when a people glories in the destruction of its history.

Not only is this the destruction of an historical monument to the man who left his commission in the Union Army to defend Richmond, the Commonwealth, and the South from invasion by those forces, whose lands were turned into a cemetery by the invaders/conquerors after the war, never to be farmed again, it is the destruction of a work of art that will not be duplicated.

This is only "justified" by the teaching of distortions in History to try to justify the actions of the conquerors in retrospect.

You can't learn anything from history that is twisted.

When we destroy the monuments to our own history like the invading Saracens treated the examples around them, who are the enemy?
The statue is one thing but for me, it is more about caving to the mob that makes me mad. 

How the hell can he lead if he is just going to roll over.... geezz   :chairbang:
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Re: VIRGINIA: Glenn Youngkin, GOP Nominee For Governor, Endorses Removing Lee Statue, Says Confedera
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2021, 10:03:51 pm »
Kinda wish I lived in Virginia, so I could experience the pleasure of withholding my vote from this "Republican" on election day... (with a spit on the floor)
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Re: VIRGINIA: Glenn Youngkin, GOP Nominee For Governor, Endorses Removing Lee Statue, Says Confedera
« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2021, 01:46:36 am »
Quote from: EdinVA on September 12, 2021, 09:56:14 pm
The statue is one thing but for me, it is more about caving to the mob that makes me mad. 

How the hell can he lead if he is just going to roll over.... geezz   :chairbang:
Just like most of the 'pubbies on Capitol Hill.

lukewarm spit.
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