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A.G. GancarskiSeptember 6, 2017

Jacksonville City Council President Anna Brosche will not be talking to the Urban League Thursday about Confederate monuments after all. The meeting was rescheduled “due to Hurricane Irma’s possible disruptions,” and the event organizer noted at 3:29 on Wednesday afternoon that Brosche “sends her regrets.” We spoke to Brosche, who at one point advocated the removal […]

A.G. GancarskiSeptember 6, 2017

Even as Jacksonville’s Mayor and City Council President stand shoulder to shoulder during storm prep pressers, they diverge on another storm of a different matter. That storm is a Category 5, but of a different type: namely, the future of the city’s Confederate monuments. Council President Anna Brosche was provided an inventory by Jacksonville’s Parks […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 30, 2017

While it is by no means certain that the “South will rise again,” what’s clear: Jay Fant wants Confederate monuments to float to the top of the Attorney General race. Fant, a Jacksonville State Representative currently vying for the 2018 GOP nomination in the Attorney General race, made news when he spoke out recently, advocating for white […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 23, 2017

Should Jacksonville remove its Confederate monuments? It was the hot-button question that animated public comment at a Jacksonville City Council meeting Tuesday night. The monument debate, saved for the main event of the evening, roiled Council for hours. Though Council President Anna Brosche walked back her proposal to remove the monuments, in light of “alternative suggestions,” those […]

Associated PressAugust 22, 2017

Workers in a Florida city have started taking down a memorial to Confederate soldiers at a city-owned cemetery. The Palm Beach Post reports that a crane arrived at Woodlawn Cemetery on Tuesday to remove the 10-foot-tall marble monument. West Palm Beach Mayor Jeri Muoio announced the removal a day earlier, saying the city had asked the […]

Peter SchorschAugust 21, 2017

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum showed up on the Sunday edition of MSNBC’s AM Joy to give his two cents on comments GOP rival Adam Putnam made on the Confederate monument in front of the Old State Capitol in Tallahassee. “What a luxurious place to be, the fact that you don’t have to be aware […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 21, 2017

Last week in Jacksonville politics, it was the Anna Brosche show. She was at the center of every news cycle for a provocative proposal to mothball Confederate monuments. There are some who would say that, just as Jacksonville was set to experience a solar eclipse Monday afternoon, there was a commensurate eclipse of political capital for […]

Drew WilsonAugust 17, 2017

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Lantana Democratic Rep. Lori Berman sent a letter to Gov. Rick Scott Thursday asking him to call a special session to replace Florida’s statue of a Confederate General at the National Statuary Hall in Washington. Each state gets two slots to fill in the statuary hall and Florida’s current picks are Dr. John Gorrie of […]

Peter SchorschAugust 16, 2017

State Sen. Dennis Baxley is scheduled to appear at a September banquet put on by a Save Southern Heritage Florida, a pro-Confederate group. Baxley, a Republican who represents Sumter County and parts of Lake and Marion, is on the slate for a panel discussion on the “War on the South” during the Sept. 2 event […]

Drew WilsonAugust 16, 2017

Miami Beach Democratic Rep. David Richardson said Wednesday that President Donald Trump should resign over his comments in the wake of the Charlottesville, Virginia, protests that left one dead and 19 injured. “What the country witnessed yesterday was a United States president losing all moral authority to govern. His defense of neo-Nazis, KKK members, and […]

Tag: Confederate monuments

Anna Brosche remarks on Confederate monuments postponed

As Irma looms, Confederate monument debate gets pushback in Jax City Hall

Jay Fant doubles down on Confederate monuments in Attorney General race

Confederate monument controversy roils Jacksonville City Council meeting

West Palm Beach removes Confederate monument

Andrew Gillum criticizes Adam Putnam’s ignorance of Old Capitol monument

Confederate monuments and an eclipse of political capital in Jacksonville

Lori Berman wants special session to yank Confederate statue from D.C.

Dennis Baxley to attend pro-Confederate banquet

David Richardson says it’s time to dump Donald Trump