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Rays, Lightning, Bucs donate for statue removal
BayNews 9 (Tampa) ^ | 8/17/17

Posted on 08/17/2017 1:01:37 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn has announced that over $140,000 has been raised through private funds to removed a Confederate statue at the old Hillsborough County courthouse.

Original Report: The area's professional baseball, football and hockey teams are helping pay for the removal of the Confederate statue at the old Hillsborough County courthouse.

$140,000 must be raised within 30 days, according to commissioners Bucs, Lightning, Rays donate funds toward removal

County commissioners voted 4-2 Wednesday to allow 30 days to raise private funds to move the Confederate statue.

If $140,000 isn't raised, the statue will remain where it is.

On Thursday, the Tampa Bay Rays, Tampa Bay Lightning and Tampa Bay Buccaneers said they have donated funds to help pay for the removal of the statue.

In a joint statement, the teams said:

"Recognizing that this monument does not reflect the values of our community, in collaboration with the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce, our organizations have dedicated funds to assist in moving the statue from the public space in front of the courthouse. Now more than ever before, we must stand united and committed to diversity and inclusion as we all attempt to heal from the tragedy in Charlottesville."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: athletes; bobbuckhorn; dixie; fundingtheleft; imnoracist; purge; statues; tampa
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AWW, more virtue signalling. Isn't that cute?
1 posted on 08/17/2017 1:01:37 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

So, how many pro-Trump patriots are going to continue to attend events at these leftist places?


2 posted on 08/17/2017 1:02:38 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Impala64ssa

Now watch their ticket sales and viewship take hits

Turnabout . . . .fools


3 posted on 08/17/2017 1:03:27 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Search "Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy tweets" and pass those links on to all you know)
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To: Impala64ssa
Just call the "antifa".
They'll come do it for free.

...well, move it from where it is, to the ground.

4 posted on 08/17/2017 1:05:10 PM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Impala64ssa

Yet another reason to boycott the Bucs! Fug ‘em all!


5 posted on 08/17/2017 1:06:56 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: A_Former_Democrat

As if I didn’t have another reason to despise Sports Inc.

I hope those organizations take it hard in the finance department.


6 posted on 08/17/2017 1:07:48 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Impala64ssa

Then they celebrated by stealing crablegs and raping white girls.


7 posted on 08/17/2017 1:10:10 PM PDT by The Toll
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Now more than ever before, we must stand united and committed to diversity and inclusion as we all attempt to heal from the tragedy in Charlottesville."


Diversity and Inclusion meaning Everyone BUT White heterosexual males.

Gotcha!
8 posted on 08/17/2017 1:10:11 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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To: Impala64ssa

With those big checkbooks, they will raise that $140k in 30 minutes.


9 posted on 08/17/2017 1:10:26 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Impala64ssa

um... the easy solution to ALL these problems... conservative cities take the statues from the liberal ones and display them there for the tourists to take pictures of!


10 posted on 08/17/2017 1:12:08 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

My guess would be all of them will continue to attend these events and continue to give them the money to use to kill them with.


11 posted on 08/17/2017 1:12:35 PM PDT by sport
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committed to diversity and inclusion

I guess they don't understand the meaning of those words.

12 posted on 08/17/2017 1:13:41 PM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Now if we could just get them to stop beating their wives and girlfriends.


13 posted on 08/17/2017 1:15:15 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: wally_bert

I don’t watch sports on TV or go the sporting venues, so they do not have me as a revenue source anyway.


14 posted on 08/17/2017 1:16:17 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Impala64ssa

People that have to go out onto big open fields at well advertised times shouldn’t participate in eradicating peoples history.


15 posted on 08/17/2017 1:19:21 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: A_Former_Democrat

I doubt that they lose the first viewer or ticket sales.


16 posted on 08/17/2017 1:20:20 PM PDT by sport
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Of course not, their idiot supporters don’t even read, much less read obscure articles detailing their heroes participation in the future genocide of their children.


17 posted on 08/17/2017 1:31:19 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: Pilgrim's Progress
So, how many pro-Trump patriots are going to continue to attend events at these leftist places?

If I lived there and was a fan of those teams, this would be the end for me. However, I do know squishy republicans who would somehow rationalize it until it is too late ("first they came for...etc.").

18 posted on 08/17/2017 1:35:52 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: Impala64ssa

To HELL with the NFL!


19 posted on 08/17/2017 1:37:37 PM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: Impala64ssa

Another bunch of ignorant jackasses.


20 posted on 08/17/2017 1:38:58 PM PDT by mulligan
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