Let's replace the confederate general with a statue of "Florida Man"
March 7, 2016
By Diane Roberts
Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith is getting evicted from Statuary Hall.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans are not happy. Sen. Don Gaetz, a native of that little-known Old South state of North Dakota, is not happy: “There is nothing in the bill analysis, nothing in the testimony, that tells us any reason why General Smith ought to be gone,” lamented Gaetz. “Was he indicted? Did he commit some heinous act?”
Well, there was that armed insurrection against the United States government — you know, the Civil War? And while Kirby Smith was born in St. Augustine, he left Florida at the age of 12, never to return.
Furl the flag, boys: the South ain’t fixing to rise again. You’re getting it confused with sea levels. But Floridians can at least choose a worthy successor to a fellow whose claim to fame is fleeing to Cuba to avoid charges of treason ...
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