Post by pavel on Mar 7, 2016 9:20:22 GMT -6
Bill filed in Legislature to prevent takedowns of Confederate monuments
A bill that would block local governments in Louisiana from removing Confederate monuments and other commemorative statues without state permission was filed Friday in the Legislature.
The measure, which cannot be taken up until the regular session starting March 14, could elevate the bitter spat over four Confederate monuments in New Orleans and perhaps others elsewhere to the state level.
The bill, Senate Bill 276, would create a statewide commission that would need to grant waivers before local jurisdictions could remove, rename or otherwise alter a public memorial to a “historic conflict, historic entity, historic event, historic figure or historic organization.”
That would cover all the monuments Mayor Mitch Landrieu and the City Council want to remove in New Orleans. The monuments in question honor Gen. Robert E. Lee, Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and a white militia group that rebelled against the state’s biracial Reconstruction-era government in 1874.
Read more: www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/15085530-129/bill-filed-in-legislature-to-prevent-takedowns-of-confederate-monuments
A bill that would block local governments in Louisiana from removing Confederate monuments and other commemorative statues without state permission was filed Friday in the Legislature.
The measure, which cannot be taken up until the regular session starting March 14, could elevate the bitter spat over four Confederate monuments in New Orleans and perhaps others elsewhere to the state level.
The bill, Senate Bill 276, would create a statewide commission that would need to grant waivers before local jurisdictions could remove, rename or otherwise alter a public memorial to a “historic conflict, historic entity, historic event, historic figure or historic organization.”
That would cover all the monuments Mayor Mitch Landrieu and the City Council want to remove in New Orleans. The monuments in question honor Gen. Robert E. Lee, Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and a white militia group that rebelled against the state’s biracial Reconstruction-era government in 1874.
Read more: www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/15085530-129/bill-filed-in-legislature-to-prevent-takedowns-of-confederate-monuments