Gov. Scott silent on Confederate monument at Florida Capitol

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BY KRISTEN M. CLARK
Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau
AUGUST 18, 2017 9:40 PM

TALLAHASSEE
Florida’s Republican governor won’t take a position on what should be done with a monument that honors slain Confederate soldiers on the state Capitol grounds, even as a growing number of elected leaders around the country take steps to remove such monuments after last weekend’s violent white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Rather than lead on the issue, Rick Scott is deferring to state lawmakers and has remained silent on whether such monuments in Florida — and particularly the one at the Capitol — should be taken down ...

http://www.bradenton.com/news/local/article168120002.html

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1. Gainesville ridded themselves of their statue a week ago.

Time for Tallahassee to do the same.