Posted on 04/12/2017 3:56:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
New Orleans' Confederate monuments are slated for removal after recent court rulings, but Louisiana Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser is calling for help from the Oval Office.
Nungesser wrote a letter to President Donald trump, according to a report from WWL-TV, asking him to step in.
"I implore you to utilize the powers bestowed upon the Office of the President in the Antiquities Act, passed by Congress in 1906, which granted you the authority to declare by public proclamation, historic and prehistoric structures and other objects of historic significance as national monuments," Nungesser wrote to Trump, according to WWL-TV.
Monuments to Robert E. Lee, P.G.T. Beauregard and Jefferson Davis have been slated for removal after recent court rulings. Public bidding for their removal received just one proposal, which came in at $600,000, more than triple the original budget of $170,000.
A fourth Confederate-era monument, The Battle for Liberty Place, was slated for removal after another court ruling, although it was not addressed in the letter to Trump.
Nungesser's letter focused mainly on Lee and Beauregard, also stating that he believed the city government would target the monument to Andrew Jackson next.
Uhh, he’s got some bigger fish to fry right now.
While I agree with that, the issue is important.
To run and hide from our history as a country or as individuals history is to deny everything learned from it.
Especially an history that may qualify as a mistake.
Trump can’t get involved - it distracts him from saving us from fundamentalist Islam and improving the economy and cutting out the deep state.
You want to save those local monuments, work with local people and stand up to the liberal bullies.
I agree with the Lt. Governor
His picked a soft target, nothing more, nothing less.
Obama made it a federal issue.....
.....gone way beyond local
These men stepped up to defend their country . . . such a shame the SJW have taken over.
Its called domestic policy and while you are correct in that he has some very pressing issues right now our Southern history is at stake and needs to be addressed as well.
As long as we don’t honor them I have no problem, but many find it an embarrassing time for our culture.
I’m a northerner but have great respect for history and the Americans who served in confederacy. I believe a President ruled that veterans from both sides were U.S.A. veterans for all purposes. No justification for desecrating graves or moving monuments.
I see parallels in ISIS bulldozing ancient cities like Palmyra and burning Christian churches.
I like this move. If we allow the UN/Nwo to remove our monuments be do it at our own peril.
To outsiders, it might sound like courts ordered the statues' removal, but the city wanted place.
It may be ironic that the Lt. Governor is asking the federal government to interfere with the decisions of local authorities. State's rights?
Public bidding for their removal received just one proposal, which came in at $600,000, more than triple the to take them down, and various historical groups and the Sons of Confederate Veterans sued to keep the statues in original budget of $170,000.
Of course. Somebody will make money out of this.
It was a different time and an age where honor was respected in a man who was willing to fight for his beliefs. Ninety nine percent of Confederate soldiers owned NO slaves but did own a love for their states and families well being. The south did not invade the north. They were defending their homeland. How “embarrassing”. The true embarrassment is that the north had to invent saving the slaves as a reason for justifying the destruction of the south. Remember, slavery was LEGAL when the war started so this alone tells you it was not slavery that was the cause.
“It may be ironic that the Lt. Governor is asking the federal government to interfere with the decisions of local authorities.”
Local authorities? Leftist mayor decision enforced by the courts.
The city council voted for it 6-1.
The South INVADED all the Federal posts for military gear and started bombardment of Fort Sumpter when the north tried to bring food in when Lincoln asked for a peaceful resolution.
It’s kind of like the Germans...What Nazis, I saw no Nazis...
The South relied on slave labor. Slavery was their primary issue, not keeping the Union together, because the North didn’t go invade their three northern states over slavery either.
Rubber stamped mayor’s desires. Mayor wanted to demonstrate his purity in such matters to his black base.
I do too.
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