Critics protest move of Confederate statue to Florida county

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By The Associated Press
August 9, 2019 8:15 am

... Protesters on Saturday planned to march through downtown Tavares, Florida to voice their opposition to bringing the statue to Lake County.

Lake County Commissioners last month endorsed moving the statue of Edmund Kirby Smith to the Lake County Historical Society.

The statue of the Confederate general has been in the National Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. But it was set to become homeless next year since Florida lawmakers requested that it be replaced with one of Mary McLeod Bethune. The new statute of the African American educator and civil rights advocate will be moved to the National Statuary Hall in 2020.

As the landlord of the Lake County Historical Society, county commissioners had the authority to reject the request for the Confederate statue by the Lake County Historical Society but endorsed it on a 3-2 vote ...

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/entertainment-news/2019/08/critics-protest-move-of-confederate-statue-to-florida-county/

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1. Group Protests Bringing Confederate Statue to Lake County

By Rebecca Turco Lake County
PUBLISHED 11:06 AM EDT Aug. 10, 2019 UPDATED 1:17 PM ET Aug. 10, 2019

TAVARES, Fla. — More than 250 people marched down Main Street in Tavares Saturday, protesting the decision to bring a statue of a Confederate general to the historical society there.

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The statue of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith was one of two statues representing Florida in the U.S. Capitol Building. But the state is replacing it with a statue of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune.

Last month, the Lake County commission approved a move to allow the Lake County Historical Society to bring the statue to Tavares, despite strong opposition from many residents and nine city mayors against doing so ...

https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2019/08/10/group-protests-bringing-confederate-statue-to-lake-county

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2. Are there no landfills in Lake County?

Surely a landfill would be the most appropriate place for this.