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Kamaji:
Newly-elected Jacksonville mayor sets aside $500K to remove Confederate statue

By Selim Algar
July 24, 2023

The newly-elected mayor of Jacksonville has allocated $500,000 in the Florida city’s budget to remove a monument dedicated to women who lost loved ones serving in the Confederate army.

Donna Deegan — a progressive Democrat who toppled her Republican opponent in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ backyard — had pledged to topple the monument and lined up the dollars to do so.

“We are looking at all potential options and Mayor Deegan remains committed to removing the Springfield Park monument,” her spokesperson, Philip Perry, tweeted.

Erected in 1915, the monument is one of the last Confederate memorials remaining in Jacksonville, the nation’s largest city in terms of contiguous land mass.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/07/24/new-democrat-florida-mayor-to-resume-citys-confederate-statue-fight/

DefiantMassRINO:
Mayor, your city is named after Andrew Jackson ... a hetero-sexual white Christian male of Western European descent who fought Native Americans.  A statue dedicated to war widows is the least of your woke snowflake problems.

Weird Tolkienish Figure:
Why so expensive to remove a statue?

mountaineer:

--- Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on July 24, 2023, 06:38:36 pm ---Why so expensive to remove a statue?
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Probably have to contract with a female- and minority-owned company to do the deed, but only after completing an environmental impact statement.

Wingnut:

--- Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on July 24, 2023, 06:38:36 pm ---Why so expensive to remove a statue?

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Jax local news puts it a more like 1.3 million to remove.  But remember we can spare no expense to remove the stain of slavery from the whiteman and history.

It will be like it never happened.

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