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

[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]

Why so expensive to remove a statue?

Probably have to contract with a female- and minority-owned company to do the deed, but only after completing an environmental impact statement.

[Wingnut]

Why so expensive to remove a statue?

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.

[mountaineer]

Once again, I say move it here. I have room for it, even though I know nothing about the story behind it.

[mountaineer]

Question for Floridians: what the heck is this all about?

I've been contemplating a little vacation to the Jacksonville area. Searching for historical sites to visit, I came across Camp Milton. Woo hoo, thought I - Mr. M and I love visiting Civil War sites whenever possible. But this is what I found:

Camp Milton Historic Preserve in the western edge of Jacksonville, Florida, preserves the remains of one of the most important Civil War sites in Florida. Interpretive panels told the story of the archaeology of the site, the construction of the fortifications there, the first combat in Florida by black Union soldiers, and more, but the mayor of Jacksonville has ordered their immediate removal.

And this:

Editor's Note: The Mayor of Jacksonville has directed the removal of the modern, unbiased interpretive panels from Camp Milton Historic Preserve. As a result we have removed all photographs of this location from our page.

Is the the handiwork of the new communist Democrat mayor? Apparently, this *itch is removing Confederate history left and right. Now she's ordered the removal of educational placards (interpretive panels) at an historical site because they dare mention the CSA? It's a Civil War site, so it's next to impossible to describe what happened there without mentioning "the other side." How, exactly, does one study the Civil War without information about both sides?

Is it any wonder I wonder if we're in Bizarro World?

[catfish1957]

Is Nikki Haley going to help man and run the wrecking ball?

[Fishrrman]

[mountaineer]

On top of the NPS planning to remove the William Penn statue from a park in ... wait for it ... PENNsylvania, I'm about to stroke out.

[sneakypete]

500 Grand?????

Who is she hiring,her brother?

[libertybele]

Question for Floridians: what the heck is this all about?

I've been contemplating a little vacation to the Jacksonville area. Searching for historical sites to visit, I came across Camp Milton. Woo hoo, thought I - Mr. M and I love visiting Civil War sites whenever possible. But this is what I found:
And this:
Is the the handiwork of the new communist Democrat mayor? Apparently, this *itch is removing Confederate history left and right. Now she's ordered the removal of educational placards (interpretive panels) at an historical site because they dare mention the CSA? It's a Civil War site, so it's next to impossible to describe what happened there without mentioning "the other side." How, exactly, does one study the Civil War without information about both sides?

Is it any wonder I wonder if we're in Bizarro World?

First I have heard of this -- it hasn't made the local news.

We live in a society where the liberals are bent on removing any historical monuments, or evidence of American history and also rewriting the history books that our children are learning from.  This is happening all around the country.

I am surprised though that DeSantis hasn't intervened....

Once our generation passes, I am convinced that there will be very little record of actual American history as you and I know it to be.

As I have stated several times -- one of the GOP's biggest mistakes (of many) was not fighting to undo the liberal indoctrination of our youth through the public school system.  It's been done for decades now and the result is the bizarro society that we are now living in.