Battle over Capitol's Confederate memorial begins anew
State Rep. Geraldine Thompson says she’s renewing an effort to get rid of a Confederate memorial on the state Capitol grounds.
That comes after Gov. Ron DeSantis officially called for a statue of educator and civil-rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune to replace that of Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith in the U.S. Capitol.
In a brief statement through a spokesperson on Monday, Thompson said she will “press for relocation” of the monument that’s outside the old Capitol.
Alternatively, the Windermere Democrat said, she will argue for “placement of a plaque explaining Florida’s secession from the Union and treason against the United States.” (When she was previously a state Senator, she filed legislation to ban the display of Confederate flags on state and local government property.)
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