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Mitch PerryJanuary 27, 2016

Although Pasco County Republican John Legg’s bill in the Senate that would remove the statue of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith from Florida’s place in the National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington, D.C. advanced in committee on Wednesday, it was hardly smooth sailing. Momentum for such legislation began last summer, in the immediate aftermath of the South Carolina Legislature voted […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 27, 2016

Although the Senate bill to remove the statue of a Confederate general from one of Florida’s two places in the National Statuary Hall Collection advanced in committee Wednesday, it was hardly smooth sailing. Momentum for such legislation began last summer, after the South Carolina Legislature removed the Confederate battle flag from its statehouse grounds after a racist […]

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Proposal to remove Confederate Statue passes thru Senate Committee, but not without considerable debate

Proposal to remove Confederate statue passes through Senate panel after debate